01-11-2011, 08:51 PM
Finished up the last piece of track and immediately ran a train all teh way around, even with the pushpins still holding the track. Finally!
![[Image: firsttrain2.jpg]](http://www.readingeastpenn.com/images/construction2/firsttrain2.jpg)
--Randy
--Randy
01-11-2011, 09:03 PM
01-11-2011, 09:34 PM
01-11-2011, 10:16 PM
01-11-2011, 10:39 PM
Very cool, Randy!
Is that RDG GP-7 #628 pulling that cut of cars? 8-)
OMG! I haven't seen a steam or hot water radiator in decades! Also cool ... or ... warm really! Kinda makes me a little homesick for the Keystone State! Even though I'm happy not to have to pay ridiculous prices for heating oil (I used to buy the whole winter's worth in August when the price was low) and bundle up to go outside, living down here in Florida, I have grown tired of living in this town of Fools, Idiots and Morons (and Rednecks) and never seeing a train! Somehow watching a flock of 46 Ibises fly in and pick my back yard for grubs for half an hour (25' away out the open sliding glass doors) doesn't make up for not having seen a train for way too many years!
But ... it's great that you can run the entire main now! I'm jealous! :!:
I look forward to seeing more photos of Reading diesels in Pullman Green and Wooten fireboxed steam!
Congrats!
Is that RDG GP-7 #628 pulling that cut of cars? 8-)
OMG! I haven't seen a steam or hot water radiator in decades! Also cool ... or ... warm really! Kinda makes me a little homesick for the Keystone State! Even though I'm happy not to have to pay ridiculous prices for heating oil (I used to buy the whole winter's worth in August when the price was low) and bundle up to go outside, living down here in Florida, I have grown tired of living in this town of Fools, Idiots and Morons (and Rednecks) and never seeing a train! Somehow watching a flock of 46 Ibises fly in and pick my back yard for grubs for half an hour (25' away out the open sliding glass doors) doesn't make up for not having seen a train for way too many years!
But ... it's great that you can run the entire main now! I'm jealous! :!:
I look forward to seeing more photos of Reading diesels in Pullman Green and Wooten fireboxed steam!
Congrats!
01-12-2011, 12:14 AM
Way to go, Randy. Now you need to have a golden spike ceremony. 
Wayne
Now you need to have a golden spike ceremony. Wayne
01-12-2011, 07:45 AM
Golden dab of caulk? 
Hot water in those radiators, this is an older house (1910-1920 era by my best guess) made into two apartments, I have the second and third floors. Got those radiators in all the rooms - the bathroom one is rather interesting as it hangs on the wall but is the same type as the floor standing ones.
Only have 2 steamers, both T-1's. I didn't put together a special train, just ran what I already had out, there's only 2 Reading cars in that train, the flat car and the caboose. I had 2 trains on the layout, with a bunch more Reading cars - once I hooked up the two switch motors down at the other end I could do some classification sort of Inglenook-style, so when my younger son was last over I had him take the two trains and make one with only Reading cars and all the foreign road cars in another - after a few pointers he picked up on the moves required and swapped them all around without having to resport to the 0-5-0. Then I got back to work on the layout so took half the stuff off to make room to work.
--Randy
Hot water in those radiators, this is an older house (1910-1920 era by my best guess) made into two apartments, I have the second and third floors. Got those radiators in all the rooms - the bathroom one is rather interesting as it hangs on the wall but is the same type as the floor standing ones.
Only have 2 steamers, both T-1's. I didn't put together a special train, just ran what I already had out, there's only 2 Reading cars in that train, the flat car and the caboose. I had 2 trains on the layout, with a bunch more Reading cars - once I hooked up the two switch motors down at the other end I could do some classification sort of Inglenook-style, so when my younger son was last over I had him take the two trains and make one with only Reading cars and all the foreign road cars in another - after a few pointers he picked up on the moves required and swapped them all around without having to resport to the 0-5-0. Then I got back to work on the layout so took half the stuff off to make room to work.
--Randy
01-12-2011, 04:06 PM
01-12-2011, 05:12 PM
01-12-2011, 07:41 PM
YEA!!!!! party time..
01-12-2011, 09:06 PM
01-13-2011, 01:36 PM
Congratulations on your "Magic Moment"!