Morning guys! Watching morning news, major fire at Hollywood and Vine, have about 115 firefighters involved. A restaurant is burning "BASQUE", what a terrific job these guys do, sure looks dangerous. They have 6 aerial Master Streams hitting the fire, its been burning for over a hour and half. (By the way the interior of this building was the scene used for filming of Ocean's 11)
More entertaining news. We had our 2nd Operating session yesterday afternoon. Great time for all. Had lots of collision unfortunately, but doesnt appear any equipment was damaged. I was running a passenger train which had a speed range of between 50-60smph, and got rear-ended by a freight that was suppose to be doing 30. I was leaving a station and the freight was highballing for some reason. Then one of the guys was operating a set of Budd cars, and his team consisting of 2 freights. The freights were suppose to drop off their consist and pick up a different set of cars, then the next freight pick up the cars that were dropped off, and leave its consist. The Budd set would come out of this secluded area pushing 3 or 4 freight cars almost everytime. One of the guys would leave his cars on the main. The surprise of the guy with the Budd cars was awesome.
I have a little concern for this evening. One of the guys purchased a new engine from a shop in the southeast. Anyway, it was DOA, so he called the shop and they told him they would send him a new set of boards. So he wouldn't have to go through the warranty process. He has just received the boards, and has asked if I would help him install them! Cause he is not sure of what he's doing !!! If I do ???
Fire update: Apparently the building that is burning is known to have a lot of memorabilia stored in the attic area. There is a large billboard that is on the roof of the building (1-2 story building) is threatening to fall. The water flowing out of the building looks like a river, ankle deep running down the street. The sign has forced all the firefighters out of the building, delaying getting the fire out. Lots of history going up, it is a historic building. Right on the corner of Hollywood and Vine.