:hey: OK All.... This is it ,Our trip to Steam Town is this Saturday June 13. We will meet here at 9:00 am, Reading T-1 #2124         In Steam Town's parking lot.
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The entrance fee is $6.00 17 and older. That gets you into the park grounds, rail yard, museum theater, round house, and guided walking tours etc. There is also a short excursion for $3.00 per person 6 and over.
If we have the time there is also a small trolley museum across the lot from Steam Town that we could check out too.
So have a safe trip, Bring Your Camera, And pray for good weather. See you there:
Steve.

Hi guys,

I bought a proto 2000 SD50 on Saturday rom my LHS ....... great detail and like all y locos it will be DCC converted using a Digitrax DH165LO
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I will post some videos to let you see the general picture how things went.

1. A CSX Westbound

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2.Even the U.P got in on the act.

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3. Eastbound CSX

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4.Then NS.

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It was like that from(around) 7:30 AM to around noon..


Then yesterday on my walk "rest" on the NS I caught these former CR units rounding the connector toward Bellevue.

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Overall it was a great trip..A return trip is planned.

However...

Like all things Brakie I forgot to format my memory card to my camcorder..

Quote:The primary focus of my annual disappearing act is to see the things we all drive, run, fly by, and never get to enjoy. Not the cities, theme parks, in-law's houses, fancy hotels, casinos, etc., but the simple things like the quiet streams, rolling hills, SKY!!!
Has anyone ever modeled a beaver dam?....I saw several. When one can take the time to look.......forests also have fallen trees! do we ever model those? Wetlands, meadows, and on, and on.
Pictures?....nope, only those that are in my mind's eye.
I've seen, again, all the things that trains pass, that we never "look" at. Do you know just how far away a Cardinal can be and still be seen?

I shot this in Stratford Ontario last weekend after a train show.
This appears to be some sort of Hazardous Material training car. Check out the different types of accesses/hatches on the top as well as the access doors on each side.
It also seems to be heavily sponsored by some heavyweights in the chemical / transportation business. I'm not sure if it is part of a display or actually used for training but it was all clean and shiny.
I couldn't access the Canadian website - but the US site has info on the 'safety tour' they are/were promoting.

http://www.transcaer.com

Well, Its been forever since anything has even been touched here in the land of the mighty maroon missabe land.

Anyway, I my last day of highschool was two weeks ago Tuesday, and my actuall Ceremony was on Mondy. Anyway, Ive been getting a ton done, (not a thing to the railroad) but Ive been looking at it. Last I checked, there was a short somewhere, and Im kinda at a stand still with what to do, a few locos need to be reprogrammed, and I have no clue how to, and I have no clue how to do any further scenry work. Im leaving for a week of on Friday, but when I come back I hope to get it running again. Now that Im done with school, I have a lot more time to mess with it. Just havent been around much and wanted to stop in and say hi to everyone.

After reading , re-reading and looking at the pictures in my last post about yard tracks I went to my LHS for supplies and after thinking about what I wanted to do I go to work. I chose to do the two yard tracks,switchbacks and the industrial spurs. The only tracks I left alone was the track coming into the industrial park and which also makes up part of the run around track.
I first applied a layer of fine cinders,trying to cover as much of the ties as I could.I then hit it with 70% alcohol and the WS scenic glue.While this was still wet I applied some course ground cover (weeds). After everything had dried I hit it with another application of glue. I still have some more work to do on the track like adding oil streaks and perhaps weathering some of the visible ties.The pictures are not in any order.
Enjoy-Bob

Greeting all,

I'm ready to lay track and was wondering if and where would a rerailer be used?

Thanks,

Joe

A very close call, cant believe that he realy didn't get hurt that badly.

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