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After Christmas Adventures

General Discussion
#1

Christmas has passed with our survival of 4 grand kids under 6. Trains were run, presents were opened and to some surprise, many had to do with Grandson Luke’s interest in trains. Mostly HO right now. The Polar Express ran all day around the tree, a Christmas present from a couple of years ago.

Too much food, too long of a day, but just the right amount of fun. Today, it is off to the Son’s place out on the farm and some serious snow sledding through the woods behind 4 wheelers. The joy and fun continues.

#2

We had a nice low key Christmas. Spent the morning opening presents with my parents and kids and the afternoon was spent with the in laws. We had fun running the trains outside as well as running my sons new Thomas zip zoom timber train. Im not sure who had more fun with it LOL. My little guy Aiden is no doubt a train fan. Thats all he plays with. I got my wife the camera she has always wanted a Nikon with changeable lenses. My Daughter got her arts and craft things. She is going to be the artist one day and hopefully help build things for the layout.
Now we are just waiting for the snow to start so we can run the plow.

#3

Shawn,
The storm that hit us so beautifully Christmas Eve, looks to be headed your way. If it picks up moisture off the coast as it moves north, you may be in for a real measurable amount of the white stuff. As I described the other day, around here it was and continues to be calendar perfect. Enjoy!

#4

We’re getting ready for the 12-18" here. I like it when they predict that much snow, because the odds are, we may get anything from a dusting to a few inches. I worry more about the “scattered flurries” prognostication, and you have a raging blizzard outside. Will be cleaning the main lines however, just in case we do get what they say we will, and will have to do this by hand, my snow removal equipment cannot handle 12-18" of snow. I’ve given up on operating sessions however, the points are frozen. If it’s pretty, and I can run, I will try to post again on YouTube. For those of you that haven’t seen the layout, Google “Romocomaka”
Happy New Year.

#5

We have about 8 inches of snow so far. Three days before the snow started falling, they were calling for a major accumilation of snow. The night it before it began snowing, they had changed the forecast to 1 to 2 inches :slight_smile: So due to the snow, some family members were unable to visit, and others had to cut their visits short. But it was still a very nice, white Christmas. It looks like my after Christmas adventure will involve a shovel and a lot of the white stuff :wink: Ralph

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#6

Christmas eve with my Mom and other family members that live in town, then over to some friends house and home top bed by 12. Christmas day had breakfast at moms and then home to a nice relaxing day. Tried to plow the main line and only got one open. Seems the 6 inch snow was to much for the plow and loco to move. Its as Ric said picture perfect. I hope you all had a great Christmas and may the new year bring good health and good forchand to you all.