Sunday, July 5, 2015

Field Trip - New Engineer

 Well, we had a new location for a Monday night train night, meeting at Jack's house. He has an HO layout modeling the '60's on the Western Maryland. My grandson, Dylan, was in town for a visit with Memere and Grandpa so he came along. He was familiar with the throttles as Jack uses the same system that I do. Jack broke us up into crews and Dyaln was my engineer and Paul was the conductor. I was the switchman.
 That is Jack on the left giving an orientation to Dylan and Paul.
 A concerned looking Jack is watching as Paul and Dylan get ready to work the yard and put together a train. Meanwhile other crews are running on the main with a couple of other trains.
Paul showed Dylan how to uncouple the cars using a wand so here is Dylan making the cut between the engine and the cars. Fortunately, we had a great evening and most of the equipment survived the night. Dylan did not generate too many demerits and may be invited back!

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