Good morning fellow train enthusiasts!
No time for pics, but the Christmas celebrations were quite nice, if somewhat subdued. My church changed its traditional Chr Eve worship times for 4:30 & 10:30 to 7:00 only. Change is always risky in the church-world, but all seemed to go well. No one ever complains to me, so I will wait to hear through the proverbial grapevine.
Wifeykins apparently took my flippant gift suggestion of some Digitrax servo switch machine components in more earnestness than I intended. So they are apparently coming. We have yet to celebrate Christmas with my older daughter (we fly to DC tomorrow morning early!) so I suspect that they will provide the DS78V controller. So looks like I will be getting busy this winter on automating some (at least 8) of the yard TOs. Should be fun - - - standby for the requisite thousand questions!
Took some time on Sunday to run trains for a while. Was fun. Depoted my two newest DCC equipped locos and brought out the Bowser into which I put the Digitrax decoder. Man, it runs great. No sound, of course, but that is not so bad sometimes. Ran it all round the loops with a modest string and performed beautifully. Even ran it backwards for a few laps.
Well, wrapping up some things and then we leave early tomorrow morning for Washington DC. Will spend a week there. Looking forward to it as they are predicting mid 60s this weekend!
Steve J