I Need to Play the Lottery

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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So last week my two-year old son got a hold of my Proto 1000 N scale GP-38-2. He destroyed the handrails, but luckily the couplers and plows were unharmed.

The handrails went missing on my berber carpet that I have. I was mad as heck, but I could not blame him, because he loves Thomas and he loves his “choo choos.”

So yesterday I spent the better part of what I thought would be three + hours combing the berber carpet like I was trying to find a needle in a haystack.

I found the left handrail section first, remarkably intact. I was apalled. I immediately glued that section of handrail onto the GP-38-2. Within another five minutes, looking in the same section, I found the front handrail, and then the rear handrails.

Both intact.

They required nothing more than a little glue.

Good thing because the Proto 1000 N scale GP-38-2 parts are non-existent any more from Walthers.

:smiley:

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  1. Play the lottery

  2. Let your son pick the numbers.

Dave Nelson

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At least you found the missing parts.

The thing about the lottery…I read somewhere that if you play 50 times a week, it would take about 500 years to win a “major lottery”.

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LOL, I wish he COULD pick numbers. Do you know the chances of winning the lottery with the winning numbers that he knows, 2? 2222222? Something worse than I’m guessing about a billion to one. LOL.

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Hi,

Just a fact here. The 7 digit number that you mention, 2,222,222, has as much of a statistical chance at winning the lottery as any other of the 9,999,999 numbers.

So maybe you’re on to something here! [2c]

Blaine

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Yeah I know. I’m not even sure how many lottery numbers there actually are.