Almost Halloween! Time for another look at my Halloween Train! https://youtu.be/5-8n9xkaPrA?si=U_bXOBkRDdvKSMRI
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Hey Chris, great to see ya.
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Im not much for Halloween myself, but would be interested in seeing what that engine could do when a sleeping cat lies on a track. 
Chris, which vehicle did you start with and how long did it take to build the train?
I once had to ram a big male cat we had, named Treki. Treki would not get his rump off the track, and got the pointy business end of a Delton Consolidation. Treki stood up, turned around, and sniffed the cow catcher with an expression on his face that proclaimed “How rude!”.
Best, David Meashey
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This Disney Coco themed train was done by a friend in Albuquerque.
Ray is a custom jewelry maker and cast the skeletons himself in pewter.
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And since we are the subject of theme trains. A little monkey business never hurts.
…and that is all I got to say about that
This being Halloween, here’s a related video or two, courtesy of the Tweetsie.
Cliff;
Something that always tickled me, the Tweetsie’s incorporated name was the Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad. Locals claimed those initials stood for “Eat Taters and Wear No Clothes”!
Yours, David Meashey
Working with a skeleton crew, I don’t know if I’ll ever get the cantanary up on this line.
I also found out I lack the skill for water slide decals. I do better with the Brother P-touch. I wonder how @roster does it?
The loco drives are two LGB 0-4-0 2117s. The tender is also powered with HLW Doozie drives. The tender shell is from a B’mann 10 wheeler and the boiler is two ten-wheeler boilers chopped up and rebuilt to extend it. The rest is pretty much all scratch-built.