Hosted My first run.

[NVTiny]

Well over the Labor day weekend, I hosted my first run. The guest are now all gone, boy did it get quiet real fast.

The track was not all cleaned, and not much had been ballisted, and I still had not built a bridge or trestle over a canyon, I just ran out of time.

Sat. about noon the first guest arrived from Pahrunp , NV, he had his son in-law, and 3 grandsons in his 5th wheel trailer, which we parked in my driveway. all members of the LVGRS . Before long We had trains running on the newest part of the Railroad. I have a glitch in one new #6 switch..

About 1 PM, 3 other guest arrived, 2 were from Southwest NV, members of the LVGRS And the other one was from Texas., he is a frined I chat with on LSC

Before long, 2 more members of the LVGRS arrived from Las Vegas.

We BBQed dinner, of burgers with all the fixins, potato salad, Ham rolls, and such.

We ran trains until dark, I have no yard lites. The next morning found the 3 boys running their tains at 7:30AM..

At one time, I had 5 trains running on my 1000 feet + of main line. including a live steamer.

We BBQed again for lunch, and a few people had to return home for other family events. two gest arrived from near Carson City, and stayed to view the railroad for about 2 hours, The remaining 2 guest cooked some stew up over a open fire and we ate late, then ran trains till dark again.

They left at 9 AM on Monday, having 400 miles to drive home.

Overall, I believe I had a good run. everyone said they liked the railroad and track plan, and would like to come back.
under the shade tree.

Train at Bear Flatt

sd45 passing a passenger train

 

[CBCNSfan]

Hi, NVTiny, sounds like you had a great weekend, a lot more exciting than mine. BTW what happened to the photos, would sure like to see them
__Willis___CB&CNSfan

 

[Lady_Railfan]

Hey, Tiny, I was there, at least in spirit. My son and I spent quite a long time looking at your website yesterday --- enjoying every minute of it, by the way!

 

[CBCNSfan]

Hey Tiny, the pic's are great real nice job you're doing on your railroad, nice work . Wish I could have something outside like that
__Willis___CB&CNSfan

 

[BN1940]

We ran trains until dark, I have no yard lites. The next morning found the 3 boys running their tains at 7:30AM...

At one time, I had 5 trains running on my 1000 feet + of main line. including a live steamer...

Nice layout NVTiny keep the good work up. You mentioning 5 trains on 1000 feet of main reminds me of a graden layout I ran on for a few years. The owner had about 1600' of mainline run, with weekly operations. At one point we would have anywhere from 10 to 16 trains running at once. Hopely one day you'll be running that many.