Good friends David James and Ken Heyl, from Brecksville OH, and Ashland OH respectively, arrived Saturday afternoon, and we spent about six hours Saturday evening tuning engines, rolling stock, turnouts, and track in a basic ... very basic ... freelance operating session. As I stated in an earlier post, there is no quicker way to find trouble spots with any part of your railroad than to have a couple of friends over to "run trains". We found a number of issues, primarily in the rolling stock and some older engines, but on balance, the railroad ran pretty well and I was pleased. Tomorrow, we start working in earnest. David and Ken, you may recall from much earlier posts, were absolutely indispensable in building the first P&LE in Ohio seven years ago; they did a lot of the heavy lifting on this iteration with several trips to St. Louis earlier in the project. Above, the Tropicana juice train of David James is on a long siding and being overtaken by a CSX coal train on the lower level of the P&LE.
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