Pix From PIHR at Kennywood Holiday Lights 2014 (final pix & video added 12/24)

Really nice video of the most "permanent" looking modular layout I've seen; excellent photos; and, a great variety of locomotives and rolling stock--though I didn't see any EMD E or F units.

Merry Christmas to you, your family and Pittsburgh Independent Hi-Railers.

This is what we strive for at this event, and it is why they keep asking us back.

We want to put on the best show possible, and judging by the looks on peoples' faces and the comments we get, the extra work certainly paid off.

Merry Christmas!

Andy

Thanks for the compliments everyone!

We hope you all have a Blessed Holiday Season, a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!

Andy

Andy, try to include some F units in next years' video for Brian (PTC).

I would offer the observation that such efforts pay-off forever. You never know how many lives are touched when a public model train layout is experienced (Note, I didn't simply say "seen."). And some lives are touched deeply. (Look at all of us in our hobby. We sure got hit hard by what we saw as youths seeing train layouts!)

Putting up a display and operating it, esp. at this time of year, is a significant responsibility toward others. We want everything to go perfectly so that nobody has anything but a positive impression, if just out of respect for others, not only for the hobby and its enjoyment of trains.

That beautiful layout and its cheerful venue spoke volumes to people. You gave them joy. That is precisely why we combine such efforts with having a Merry Christmas. You have given joy to others. Joy. Like the Light of the World. IMHO.

FrankM

This is just wonderful!!

Alan

Great photos again.  So I never made it down from Butler.  I will try to attend Greenberg in Monroeville in February.

To everyone with the Pittsburgh Independent Hirailers, have a Blessed Christmas!