Chi-Town Pulls Record Length O-Scale Train

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Non-train people seem to like to see anything not prototypical. When the long train was running, kids would stand there and count every car. Most people didn;t care that we were using radios to get clearances from the dispatcher. Attenton grabbers were trains like the high/wide train, which was part prototypical (large bridge girders - an actual Reading train carried these for a bridge that still stands today) mixed with some other stuff - a couple of large tanks that didn't go with the bridge girders, or any anything with a sound loco. Switching the yard? The only people who stood around and watched that were train buffs. General public walked right on buy and barely noticed the switcher moving around - might not have even seen it! Since this display was at the RR Museum of PA< across the street from the Strasburg Railroad, one member had a Strasburg train that got a lot of attention, particularly from kids pointing out that it was the train they had just ridden.

--Randy