We have had a fabulous train week. It started last Friday with a run session at my friend Chuck's house. I posted pictures of that in a separate thread, but will add a video of his new Lionel Big Boy running here.
Then on Saturday, Rich (RD on the forum) brought his new Lionel BB over to stretch it's legs on my layout. I wasn't sure if it would run on my layout as I do not have one of my own. I had relocated an Atlas bridge and it cleared that, but it wouldn't clear the supports under my towns of Spencer and Ruthven. Fixing it would require major reconstruction, so we ran it on the upper level only. We added a Nebraska Public Power unit coal train and a UP caboose and ran it through it's paces. Beautiful engine and I will post a video of it on my upper Milwaukee Road branch line. Had a few friends over and my grandsons plus Matt Makens and his dad from the Twin Cities.
Then we went to Stan's (Attic Tracks on the forum) gorgeous layout that is set in 1950's Chicago. Has great SuperStreets running through his town with working traffic lights that control the cars at the intersection.
Next was our friend Paul's layout and we had a great time there. Then we went to my favorite local train theme restaurant The Bull Moose in Sandwich, IL. Some of the best burgers you will ever eat served in an authentic passenger car that was used by Teddy Roosevelt and his Bull Moose party.
Then Thursday the week was ended by an operating session at our friend Ted's O scale 2-rail layout. I think this is the most fun I have ever had running trains. His layout is scaled after the real towns in northeast Iowa, southwest Wisconsin, and northwest Illinois. It is as close to running a real railroad as most of us will ever get. The most legal fun that a train nut can have.
Art
Thanks for that.
