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It is that time of year again!   Kennywood Holiday Lights, which opens this Friday 11/15/24, has been growing every year, and this year will feature 26 days of operation (weather permitting), and we have managed to grow our mainline from 356 feet last year to 358 feet this year.  We began working on the layout on November 4 and have been hard at work to get the layout up and ready.  We still have a lot of work to do, but in the mean time, here are some photos showing some of the setup process:

On Sunday 11/3, we planned the layout using scale module templates made out of scrap plywood at the Monroeville Greenberg show.

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After the show, we went straight to Kennywood to offload 2 trailer loads and several car/truck/van loads.

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Starting Monday 11/4, several more trailer and car/truck/van loads were hauled in and work was started.

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Working inside the park when it is closed is strange, but it offers the opportunity to see some of the lights without crowds and other lights:

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Opening night is tonight!  Here are some final shots from the setup days:

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Here are a few shots of my module:

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Here, we have a Yeti about to go toe-to-toe with a Werewolf with the Grim Reaper on hand to referee...

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"Cowboy Joe" has been a fixture at Kennywood for 64 years, and we always forget he is there watching over things.  At night, when the park is closed and the lights are off, his silhouette often startles us.

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Opening weekend went pretty smoothly, with a few kinks worked out along the way.  We had over 5400 visitors to the layout over the 3 nights, which is not bad considering the competition from a big local high school football game on Friday, and the Steelers game on Sunday.

Until my next batch of pix and videos can be uploaded, here is a video by  blogger and YouTuber, "That Adventure Guy" that visited us this weekend:

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Weather this weekend forced an early closure on Friday (we only had 101 visitors that night), so we took the opportunity to turn off the lights after the park closed to do a little night running and photography.  I didn't go in due to the early closure, but one of my club mates sent me some photos to post (used with permission):

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Attendance picked up on Saturday and Sunday, even though there was still some light rain on Saturday, and brought our season attendance so far to just about 10,000.  A small group of us even managed to go to the Kittanning Train Show and then on to forum sponsor Hobby Express before going in to Kennywood.

Here are a couple of my shots from Saturday:

I had to re-wire Rudolph this year as one of the connections to the battery pack came undone, but he is good as new, and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is one of the park's themes this year.

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There are lots of Jack Pearce vehicles on the layout:

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This coming (Thanksgiving) weekend is going to be crazy.  Normally weekends are 4 hrs - 6hrs - 6hrs, but this one is going to be 6 hrs - 7hrs - 6hrs due to the holiday, but we are up to the task.

Andy

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