It's been a great weekend. Friends David James of Brecksville, OH, (front) and Ken Heyl of Ashland, OH, have been in town and we've spent a dozen or more hours on the Paducah and Lake Erie, doing all those things one needs to do to make the railroad run as good as it can. Sunday was spent running trains, BUT, making immediate fixes such as getting wheel sets in gauge, couplers changed out from McHenry to Kadee when necessary, tracks cleaned, engine wheels cleaned, appropriately routing of trains - the long juice train, and coal train, have to travel up the helix on the outside track - and just discussing and planning next moves. It's the type of thing railroad friends bring to the hobby, and without which many of us would not have the model railroad we enjoy. I am forever indebted to Ken and Dave for this, and a previous, model railroad.
Power in Attica Yard stands ready for operating session. From the left, UP on the point of a Tropicana juice train belonging to David James and making an appearance on the P≤ CSX in charge of a unit coal train; a James Creek engine at the head of a unit Peabody coal train; and a N&W leading a mixed freight. The James Creek Railway was a branch line on the previous (and larger) P&LE and will work the mine load out facility on this iteration; the N&W came from the late Dean Freytag's South Ridge Lines.
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