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After Invasion Meeet & Run on Kittatinny Mt RR

Shawn and Desiree Viggiano hosted a small gathering of Invaders on the Kittatinny Mouuntain RR toady. Ken Brunt and I were joined by Ric and Jan Golding for a day of friendship and running trains.

The weather looked pretty threatening as I left Connecticut early this morning but by the time I was crossing the Hudson River it looked like it would be good. The weather did hold till nearly lunch time when the heavens opened up sending us scrambling to get locos and R/C gear out of the rain. The timing of the rain was good, by the time we finished lunch it had cleared again and we had a great afternoon running trains.

I didn’t get many pictures except for Ric’s Live Steam Shay run. The KMRR was looking great and very lush with all the rain our area has had.

Thanks for the invite Shawn - I had a great time. When you are cleaning up be on the lookout for that glad hand again. It must have pulled out of my pocket with my knife near the steam table when I adjusted my radio.

Nice shots Jon. Thanks for the pics. Sounds like a good time was had by the attendees.

Nice pics Jon.

Looking forward to Invasion 2014 already!

Jon great pics, Wish I lived closer to you guys. Looks like every one had fun. Regards,Ron

Jon Radder said:

Shawn and Desiree Viggiano hosted a small gathering of Invaders on on Kittatinny Mouuntain RR today.

Thanks for the invite Shawn - I had a great time.

My sentiments exactly Jon. It was great seeing his RR in person and although I didn’t run any of mine, Jon and Ric brought theirs out to run. It was a lotta fun…:wink:

It was pleasure having everyone over. We had a great time and glad the weather ended up being nice. We will have to make this a yearly tradition. This is what makes the hobby so great. After seeing Ric and Jon’s live steam Shay’s run makes me want one now, Glad to hear everyone made it home safe. Ric just left for the Jersey shore. Im looking forward to seeing more pictures.

Jon good news I found your glad hand. I can either snail mail it or make it a point to come up your way in the next few weeks.

Ken Brunt said:

My sentiments exactly Jon. It was great seeing his RR in person and although I didn’t run any of mine, Jon and Ric brought theirs out to run. It was a lotta fun…:wink:

I saw you taking pictures - time to post a few !

Shawn Viggiano said:

Jon good news I found your glad hand. I can either snail mail it or make it a point to come up your way in the next few weeks.

Fantastic. Amazing that something so small can be lost on and found, not only once but twice. I’m in no rush for it, so f I can get you out here one weekend in August that would work, Snail mail would work too. I’ll PM my address and you can make a choice.

BTW - I checked the time on the way home, just about 1.5 hours door-to-door. Maybe a few minutes longer if you take 84 all the way to Danbury and then North on the main road (CT37) rather than cut-off the corner with back roads through Putnam County NY.

Jon’s glad hand fell off years ago at his age!

Jon Radder said:

I saw you taking pictures - time to post a few !

I will, just haven’t had the time to get them sorted out and edited…got a few videos, too…:wink:

**Jon Radder said:**I saw you taking pictures - time to post a few !

OK…:wink:

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And a short video…

[youtube]http://youtu.be/DSsXZqtCllU[/youtube]

Hay ,Ken ,What’s with the private video message?

It may have been still processing when I embedded it.

I think Ken just needs to put ALL of the LSC community on his “allow” list or whatever it might be called.

I tried to even login while using Firefox and it was still “private”.

Youtube won’t even tell who posted it like it usually does!

It worked on my end. Nice shots and video Ken. Nice to see my layout in someone elses eyes. Too bad you couldn’t get the rooster crowing in the background.

Yup, it works now. Nice video.:wink: Regards,Ron

Nice video. What a great looking railroad.

-Kevin.

[youtube]http://youtu.be/n6p-0NhDU0w[/youtube]

It’s good to see those guys getting so deep into it… and you so happy to have them, Shawn. Would love to have been there!