A little difficulty deciding where to put this file. Our friends and members of the Gateway Garden Railroad Club, Andy C and his partner and wife Jane, hosted the clubs monthly meeting on Sunday. What a thrill! You see we have track to run on. Yes, this is the Bluestone Southern Railroad dot 2. Jane and Andy moved from O’Fallon, Illinois to property on the county line between Nashville and Pickneyville, Illinois. That’s 28 miles south of Carlyle. That soybean field has been turned into a beautiful home and railroad that we will be reading a lot about over the years to come. With a little “swet equity”, we were able to funagal a run of the KVRwy’s Presidential Inspection Train". This sign kind of gives you an idea of what we are talking about.
Leaving from the steam up ready tracks by the house, the “Presidential Special” heads west.
Let’s put it a little more in prespective -
I still don’t think you are getting the whole picture. This is the ballast train heading for the first temporary bridge -
This is the yard or a wye outside the basement window. Two years construction to get to this part. From here the railroad heads away from the house. The club members are standing in front of that sign in the first picture. To the left of the picture is one of the bridge crossing across the valley.
I think I’m taking this picture from the location of one of the first stations. Its looking back on where that wye is. My white shirt is on a bush just to the left of that basement window.
Andy and Jane like what Marty Cozad is doing and think it is a great place to start. 
Oh yeah, there was lots of great food (check out the flat car loads above the cabinets)
and some Halloween cupcakes -
