Well, perhaps the plutonium reactor across the bay exploded. Or I needed to move all the roundhouse workers whilst installing the new turntable! I needed a place where the workers wouldn't experience an N Scale Norm encounter with the vacuum.
Hee-haw!!! Maybe they passed out from exhaustion - someone had them working too much overtime to upgrade the turntable!
Perhaps they belong to the International Brotherhood of Featherbedders! Featherbedding is the practice of insisting on purposely inefficent work rules, so that more workers will be needed to do the job.
Ahhh Pete , Nothing like the smell of tearing into an old musty shopvac bag to rescue some trapped yard crew!! I have found that a well used shopvac bag can do a very nice weathering job on Classic Metal Works stuff as well ! Thanks for the TIP ! Mike
I have two shop-vacs: the monster and an itty-bitty one. I always use the small one when around N scale people--it's easier to find them in a gallon container rather than a 24-gallon one.
Unfortunately the big one--Sears' biggest some 25 years ago--will suck the paint off walls. I use it about once a year to clean the tile floors. Mop stuff on, let it sit, vacuum it off--floor's bone dry and done.
I think they are just napping, and will be back at work by the weekend. Of course, I haven't done a headcount yet.
