Dear fellow Valeasians, The VEW, yours truly and the missus are safely back from an exciting week in London, England where we bravely defended North American ...
Hey Jeffrey, Great to have you "and the whole town" back in America. So far, sounds like you had a great time in one of MY favorite country: ENGLAND!, you...
O.K. Jeffrey,,,,It's the weekend now and we need another installment of your London Adventure. Mister Dave ... From: "Jeffrey MacHan" <jmac_han@...> To:...
Ok, so where was I? Oh, yeah... As soon as the public address system announced that the "early birds", those prepaid guests who get to rush in 15 minutes...
Ah Jeffrey, What amaZing adventures you have! Thank you so much for sharing them with us who must be stuck on the LA freeways, dreaming of brief case layouts...
Sorry to have left you hanging on the cliff edge on Sunday but I decided to finish my income taxes and send for my refund...yippee! Not to worry, I have many...
Dear fellow Valeasians, I have to admit that my new job and ensuing move last Fall had a dampening effect on my normally exhuberant enthusiasm for attending ...
Dear fellow Valeasians, The Val Ease County Library is pleased to announce that the March-April 2006 "Last Spike" is now available for your reading pleasure. ...
... I don't work on the Eurostar extension. I just happen to live very close to it and have bumped into some of the folks working on it in my local pub....
Thanks Peter for correcting me on this. Just goes to show that, although I appear to be listening, I only absorb bits and pieces of information, then...
I had set the alarm for 6am on Sunday April 2 but I was up before sunrise due to my excitement about returning to the Alexandra Palace for the second and final...
Gadfree Daniel Jeffrey! The bag man scene is enough to give us all the willies just thinking about it! I was at Heathrow during a lock down with automatic...
Ok Jeffrey, Enough teasing, let's get to the good part where you get your trains up and
running again and you wow the crowd? That would make a perfect ending...
Loren, you're right I've been drawing out the suspense, but...as the wise master once said, "Patience, grasshopper, patience! Soon, all will be revealed." ...
Let me start this episode off with a hint of things to come. Overnight, the back of my throat had begun to tingle, a sure sign of having forced my vocal cords...
Dear fellow Valeasians, Last March 23rd, I spent 5 hours, non-stop, no lunch break even!, installing VEE + CVE + VES on its permanent display base at Exporail....
... Jeff, Very cool, that guy sure can work fast! Wonder if he'd come over to my house and help me set up my modules? Oh, and one more question......is that...
It has been pointed out to me (by someone with lots of time on their hands) that the 26-second video of the 5 hours I spent setting up the VECRR at Exporail is...
Time for some background info on the LFRM. This year is the Festival's 7th edition. The number of visitors was growing and about 15000 people were expected...
Well, dear fellow Valeasians, we are sadly coming closer to the end of this wonderful tale of adventure at the Festival. Let's wrap up the day's events. ...
The charges in question were the door-to-door bonded carrier's charges for shipping the entire VECRR layout including import-export duties, fees and $50k...
Dear fellow Valeasians, Now that the London Festival reports are completed I have one major project on the workbench, getting VEW back up and running. If I...
Dear fellow Valeasians, My great experience at the London Festival has got me thinking about this summer's NMRA National Train Show. Due mainly to Marthe's...
... Jeff, As much as CZM would like to take credit for the BYOZ approach, we can't because it was NWPZS that originally conceived of the BYOZ idea at NTS 2004....
Thanks for setting me straight, Loren. My memory is getting worse even as it gets shorter! I should have done my homework...again. I agree that hanging with...
Hi Jeffrey, Just got a chance to finish reading about your and Martha's trip to London. What a great adventure and of course your telling of it all made it...
Hi Manfred, I'm glad you enjoyed my little Festival blog. I plan to format the 6 episodes to include the photos I took and place them on the Val-Ease- ...
Dear fellow Valeasians, Yesterday (Sunday), I had the opportunity to stop in at Exporail to check up on the VECRR display and to discuss several issues with...