Large Scale Central

AVRR on the road. May 21, 22 2011

General Discussion
#1

At the NW Pa Steam Engine & Old Equip Assn Spring Gas-Up at Portersville, Pa – just of US-19 about 35 miles north of Pittsburgh, Pa with easy access to I-79

Kim and I had fun last year, so we are going to try it again. We’ll be down inside the loop of the 15" gauge RR again This year we’ll have an r-2 outer loop. We’ll be running track power for convenience. If anybody is in the area and wants to stop by and visit, or perhaps bring a train and run for a bit, please do! Engine club info here: http://portersvillesteamshow.homestead.com/ Pics of last year’s AV trains here: http://www.the-ashpit.com/mik/roadtrip.html Hope to see you there!

#2

Had a fine couple days to run trains with only a brief shower about lunchtime today.

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http://www.the-ashpit.com/mik/road2.html Then we came home to find that the landlord had given some local church permission to use our front yard for a youth group cookout/picnic… so we ran a train for them too.

#3

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu6Ea4pgG34[/youtube]

#4

Good to hear you had decent weather.
The new building looks great in the video.
Ralph

#5

One of the folks at the unannounced (to us, anyway) church picnic that we more or less ended up semi- hosting (IMO that’s STILL weird as all get out) is the events director at the Old Stone House – as in “The Marquis de La Fayette slept here” stage coach tavern – on Rte 8 … He says he may want us to set up for an event or two there later this summer. So I guess I might need to make a few more hysteric, err historic, building models in the next few weeks.

Since said Stone House looked almost nothing like it does today back in 1927, it’s first.