Great shots , love the new site. Great idea to do the session reports. Looking forward to Derwin’s Sunday night see you there!

Brian

Thanks! I can’t say the idea is original. Joe Fugate has been doing them for some time – even video reports, as are many others. Steve McMullin (we visited him in S.J.) has been doing it for a while as well.

See you Sunday!

Great report on the operating session – almost makes me feel like I was there. Layout sure is looking mighty fine. Looks well lite and the valances are really neat. Only question – Dare I ask – How did Derwins Drop get its name??? -reminds me of an incident at a local operating session I witnessed several years ago – an 0-8-0 was “driven” right through a stockyard full of cattle – sure glad it was only HO scale otherwise ya can imagine the mess….. Talk to you later.

Wayne

I’ll let Derwin tell you about that some day. I’m sure stuff like that doesn’t happen to just Derwin. In fact I know it doesn’t! Let me tell you about the time I left the yard on the old Summer Valley….

Scott

Great to see the changes in things. Sounds like it was a busy session. I guess you are going to be giving some retraining to Derwin. Maybe he just had a little to much of that famous Island liguid glow before arriving. Look forward to further updates throughout the following months.

Don

Thanks for visiting Don! Yes, it was busy, but very fun! It’s nice having almost all the jobs filled for a change rather than combining them. Funny, It only takes a little longer to run a session with 3 people as it does with 6. One of these days I’ll figure out how to get a passenger train run with 5 people. Then I’ll start trying to add in the milk train. Ha!

Scott

Yours will be some day! Take it one step at a time and before you know it you’ll be there. Mine is far from being completely scenicked. The only place you can see bare foam is in Derwin’s Drop, the rest of the layout has been painted “soil” colour, at least. I’m not sure what I’m going to do in Derwin’s Drop with industries. I’m not completely satisfied yet.

Scott

You found time to take pictures, in your busy day.

Interesting report

Doug

Yes, with 5 operators I had a little more free time. Local switching in Kenville didn’t take too much time and once the pickups were done I had some time to take pictures. The Wayfreight had to wait a while in Chappellton for the local to finish the east bound pulls so I had time before it arrived. Then when the setouts from the wayfreight were put away I had the rest of the op session to take pictures.

Scott