Thanksgiving (2003) Fun and Progress

With rain every day that our grandkids (ages 3, 4, 5 and 6) visited us, we spent a lot of time in the basement. They always want to ‘run trains’ as soon as they arrive. (They live about 7 hours away.) So, we did that and my one locomotive with sound actually worked the whole time.

Progress came in the form of getting the rest of the 24’ yard in place. Switch machines and controls are not hooked up yet, but moving 16’ at one time was quite a project. The town at that location has been christened “Mears.’ And Mears Junction is the official name for the junction between the RGS and the SJS.

How hard is Digitrax to run??  Well, here is an example.

JT - he is 6 - decided to run the trains, and I was not coming soon enough to help. The system had been turned off, but before I got there, I heard the ‘chuff’ of the locomotive. So, he switched it out of ‘sleep’ mode, connected the track power, selected the loco number and started it up.