SWOOPS.
swoops is for 'out of towners' to visit local Cincinnati, Ohio layouts on a week end.
A very nice group arrived at my house Saturday night.
I, thoroughly, enjoyed having them visit.
If my 'old brain' remembers correctly, they were from Georgia, St. Louis, Tennessee, Alabama and Wilmington, Ohio and Dayton, Ohio.
I may have 2 new 'operators' from the Ohio cities especially since one has a passenger train that he would like to operate.
Of course I had to 'show off' all my new conifers 
Also the LCC dispatcher's panel and signaling system and my two wood trestles that I built 60 years ago when I was '16' and all 'hand laid' rail on individual wood ties.
video:
GN P-2 4-8-2 freight drag at Marias pass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWR4hZqD2EE
A very friendly group arrived.
GN R-2 2-8-8-2 freight drag and GN S-2 4-8-4 passenger train.
My new trees!
GN R-2 at Waverly.
GN S-2 at Havre.
GN R-2 at Marias pass.
OOPS: got a 'new' tree to 'fix'!
GN N-3 2-8-8-0 at Hillyard.
GN S-2 on my 60 year old trestles.
Meet at Hillyard.
Paul getting a GN P-2 4-8-2 train 'ready' to depart Seattle's freight yard.
GN P-2 leaving Seattle's freight yard.
GN N-3 at Hillyard.
Brian from Tennessee operating the GN R-2.
Brian enjoyed taking the incoming 'cabeese' and 'turning them around' on the turn table so they will be 'oriented correctly' for the next train.
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That morning I added more conifers.
Before with the old 'golden rod'.
Golden rod removed.
Conifers 'planted'.
'Getting there'!
Got 12 more boxes of 'trees' arriving in 2-3 weeks to finish this area...
and this area.
This Waverly area is done.
After 'planting trees' I'm glad I used the 'track cleaning' car on the mainline as some 'pine needles' got on the track under the 'mountain'.
First 'snow fall' of this season. About an inch but it didn't 'stick' to the roads as it was around 70 a few days ago.
Local squirrel doesn't mind me giving him a water tray, peanuts and left over parts of strawberries, apple cores, etc.!
Every day he comes to the screen door and looks in saying "HEY where's my food!".
