Stein's Minneapolis Warehouse district 1957 (HO)

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I still haven't wired up the track for the warehouse district and for the barge terminal scene - but I have had fun running trains with my kids being the engineer and me being the conductor. They are getting pretty decent at switching - being gentle with the throttle, and understanding how far forward they have to pull before I can throw switches and they can back into a yard track to drop off or pick up cars. I watch the turnouts and do the uncoupling. Works great. We ran for about an hour and a half this afternoon, most of the time with my youngest kid (age 8) on the throttle, with a blissful grin on his face. He doesn't try to derail the train or run it super fast - he is having fun running it at a moderate speed, and backing into sidings and stuff like that. Looks promising :-)
I'll try to get a little more done on the layout tomorrow.
Grin,
Stein

I'm jealous, my daughters were never very interested in the trains. Keep the memory of that "blissful grin on his face", safe from forgetfulness, It's a powerful blessing.