Week 574

 Sun, Jul 27, 2025 thru Sat, Aug 2, 2025

Sun, Jul 27, 2025

Special Guests

Geena took these creative photos...note the image
in the monitor with the time stamp on top.

...and this one which shows us looking at the camera,
but looking directly at the photographer in the monitor.

Becca figuring out the throttle

Alan at the control tower

Christian running the Metra Commuter Train

Getting ready to move out...

...and Becca moving in.

Alan would rather be on the line than at the tower.

Neal wanted to do some night running.

Not completely dark...yet.

Christian takes over the control tower.

Alan back on the line.

The Unit Coal Train coming at 'cha.

We had a great time tonight. After we got through
the initial "hick ups" we ended up having a great
session which lasted about 40 minutes in total.

See the Weekly Layout Update on the last day of this post for more action from tonight's session.

Mon, Jul 28, 2025

Train Day!

w/Rob Fair 6-8pm 2 hrs.

Marcus Thorsen 6:30-7:15pm .75 hrs.

Rob started off at the workbench repairing the coupler
on the Metra F40PH #138 that fell off during operations yesterday.

Marcus was the star of the show today.
See the Weekly Layout Update video at the end of this week's blog.
Here is Marcus getting ready to leave for the day.

Rob put away the trains from yesterday's operating
session with my niece and nephews, then we finished
putting away the Unit Coal Train into the PRB East Yard

Tue, Jul 29, 2025

Heading to Branson MO for some time away...

Wed, Jul 30, 2025

Branson MO

Thu, Jul 31, 2025

Branson MO

Fri, Aug 1, 2025

Branson MO

Sat, Aug 2, 2025

Back on track!

Working on the weekly layout update video...

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to view that video

Duration: 10:53 minutes