Once a year, my eldest daughter, hubby, and their 3 daughters, come and visit from far northern Canada. They don’t get many trains out in the frozen tundra, so I’m grateful that they enjoyed the DC trolley museum last weekend. Not everyone is in the shot, but my son (yellow shirt) and his wife and their son were there, and others of our little clan.
This weekend we’ll all take a 3 hour train ride from New Freedom PA on the Northern Central.
In between these outings, I had an idea for a craft project, in several steps:
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Decide on which 4-wheel Hartland car (flat or bucket) to decorate, and its base color (I’d spray)
(that was yesterday; and only 1 GD wanted base color spraying – gold & silver) -
Assembly (they did a team build)
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Decorate the car (this afternoon)
(They’re getting into it! Here’s a progress shot or two of Phase 3:)
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Build and decorate a load (tomorrow)
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Run a train (Saturday?)
(I’ll probably use a Shay from Bruce, since it’s the only battery loco I have, has a remote they can use, and I don’t have to clean the track, yay!)
Sunday is the ride on the NCRR, so they’ll have had their fill of train stuff!
Cliff