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Ken Z:
I am hosting an annual open-house on December 29th from 3:00 until 8:00 ~.  It is a good time to see the progress on the layout, one of the highlights will be running the "nord-east" job using Rail Pro.  You are welcome to come and run any Rail Pro equipment on the layout if you like.  Well, it would need to be S Scale.....
I am also happy to have one more Rail Pro layout in the area!
Final note, the open house in in Plymouth, Minnesota.

Ken Zieska

Alan:
Post some pics afterward please.

Ken Z:
It was terrible weather so there were few visitors.  While it would have been nice to see a crowd, what is great is that the layout rooms and the layout are cleaned up and everything is running.  I still have a number of engines with DCC installed , I had a "through" freight running DCC.  This was a train constantly moving around the outside of the layout for show.  I ran the jobs in the NE industrial area using the RailPro.  Here are a couple shots.  The first job each day is to spot the inbound freighthouse.  The schedule is set up so the CB&Q can deliver hots off it fast freight overnight from Chicago.  In the first shot the Q is backing their cars onto the interchange track.  The NP is spotting some Q empties which the Q will pick up when they leave.  The NP picks up the cars delivered by the Q, spots the hot reefer on the departure track where the rest of the freighthouse cars wait, sluffs off the rest of the cars into the yard and departs with five cars to spot for morning deliveries.  After the morning freighthouse job, the NP switcher will return with empties and pick up cars to be spotted on other industries on the NE line.  It is a busy industrial section so the NP will run at least two sweeps each day, coal deliveries are made every couple of days.

Ken Z

Alan:
Sad to hear the weather didn't cooperate. It has been bitter cold here as well. At least there were trains moving at your place!

TwinStar:
Ken,

Do you ever host such in the spring/summer/fall?

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