Greetings everyone!

We feel that it is way past time for a channel update – but we have been pretty busy – mainly spinning our wheels.

Our next trackside video has been nothing but a mess of technical issues – and that has been very frustrating. We updated drivers, software, operating systems – just about anything we could think of in order to avoid starting over again. This proved to be an exercise in futility, as it finally became apparent that somehow files within our editing program became corrupted. We guess that we were lucky in that we only had to partially re-edit, but between regular life stuff, our mini-break to go to a couple of concerts (thanks for putting up with our disrupted stream swap weekend!), and these incredibly aggravating post-production issues, well, we find ourselves running way behind on not only posting new videos, but implementing other channel improvements.

BUT – we think we will FINALLY have the latest trackside video ready to go next Tuesday with a live premiere. (We hope that we will not run into any more issues at least. We are still in the middle of re-editing, but we’re pretty sure we cracked the code.) During the premiere we will be randomly gifting five free channel memberships. (This is something that YouTube allows us to do, so we will be taking advantage of that.) You do not have to be online in order to be eligible – YT just picks five of you – so good luck! 

We also want to communicate our heartfelt thanks to those of you who have become channel members. It makes a big difference. We’re still slowly growing our subscriber base and being monetized helps this retired couple cover at least some of the costs associated with running this channel.

On a personal note, thank you to everyone who reached out about our sick doggy. Although the vets were never able to figure out the core issue beyond having an extremely acute case of  gastroenteritis, four days in the doggy critical care unit led him to making a full recovery. And in the last six weeks we have also acquired two puppies – so puppy snuggles have taken up some time as well! 🥰

For future updates you can stay tuned here or check out the website or Discord server.

Enough of this yakkin’!

Let’s go catch some trains!