…grinning…
Thanks fopr the comments. I’m working on getting something set up for 1:20 battery power. Then I can do the real clearance test on the cut / tunnel and get some more pictures. More pictures of this run in the Deep Cut thread.
Yesterday the train group I meet with on mondays spent the day running on my layout. Weather was very hot and humid so we mainly just let trains run while we sat in the shade and talked. Had a great day overall. One of the guys brough their gypsy engine to run. I fell in love with it and a great runner. I need one now but way out of my price range. 
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Ran the first F Scale train of the summer today. The Clarence Test Extra arrives at Northville. The house needs paint and the better half’s garden could use a little TLC, but at least it’s green 
The two evergreens behind the boxcar came up last year from seed… [url=lsc.cvsry.com/Post/SummerRun3-002-1200.JPG]
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[/url][color=blue]FF: Click to Enlarge - IE: Right Click Photo and select Open Link in New Window to Enlarge[/color] Backing toward WALK with the intention to back the caboose into Deep Cut Tunnel. [url=lsc.cvsry.com/Post/SummerRun3-001-1200.JPG]
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[/url][color=blue]FF: Click to Enlarge - IE: Right Click Photo and select Open Link in New Window to Enlarge[/color] The train has just banged through the diamond at the Walk Landing Trans-Load facility and has stopped so the brakeman can trow the switch at Pine Summit and enter Deep Cut… [url=lsc.cvsry.com/Post/SummerRun3-003-1200.JPG]
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[/url][color=blue]FF: Click to Enlarge - IE: Right Click Photo and select Open Link in New Window to Enlarge[/color] Just about this time it started to rain. With exposed electronics in a bathtub, I decided to annul the train and head for cover indoors.
Good that you got to run trains, but a shame the weather has been so extreme and stopped a lot of the enjoyment. Nice pics Jon
looking good, Jon…
After the Clarence Test Extra cleared, the railroad ran the first revenue train of the season. A few cars for Walk Landing and a caboose full of rail fans ready to photograph the action. First, the crew backed the caboose full of fans into the tunnel… [url=lsc.cvsry.com/Post/SummerRun3-004-1200.JPG]
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[/url][color=blue]FF: Click to Enlarge - IE: Right Click Photo and select Open Link in New Window to Enlarge[/color] Then it was off to Pine Summit to drop the photographers and do some switching… [url=lsc.cvsry.com/Post/SummerRun3-005-1200.JPG]
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[/url][color=blue]FF: Click to Enlarge - IE: Right Click Photo and select Open Link in New Window to Enlarge[/color] The train has dropped the revenue cars at Walk Landing, coupled back to the caboose and shoved East to pick up the photographers at Pine Summit… [url=lsc.cvsry.com/Post/SummerRun3-006-1200.JPG]
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[/url][color=blue]FF: Click to Enlarge - IE: Right Click Photo and select Open Link in New Window to Enlarge[/color] A little later on the fans were treated to an unusual cross-track transfer at the Walk Landing Trans-Load facility… [url=lsc.cvsry.com/Post/SummerRun3-007-1200.JPG]
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[/url][color=blue]FF: Click to Enlarge - IE: Right Click Photo and select Open Link in New Window to Enlarge[/color] The Engineer waits as the dock crew shuffles the freight… [url=lsc.cvsry.com/Post/SummerRun3-008-1200.JPG]
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[/url][color=blue]FF: Click to Enlarge - IE: Right Click Photo and select Open Link in New Window to Enlarge[/color] An aerial shot… [url=lsc.cvsry.com/Post/SummerRun3-009-1200.JPG]
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[/url][color=blue]FF: Click to Enlarge - IE: Right Click Photo and select Open Link in New Window to Enlarge[/color] And just before dusk, the Trans-Load crew were observed in this telephoto shot from a hillside… [url=lsc.cvsry.com/Post/SummerRun3-010-1200.JPG]
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[/url][color=blue]FF: Click to Enlarge - IE: Right Click Photo and select Open Link in New Window to Enlarge[/color] It was sweaty work, but some one had to do it EDIT - Before anyone complains, those figures are too small. They are probably 1:32 (Life Like). I don’t have any 1:20 scale working people and when I saw the box car go by the dock with the flat staged there, this shot came to mind. I used what I had !
Nice Jon, thanks for sharing. Glad to see you are finally making some money from that hole in the ground. 
Jon Radder said:The figures are fine............... the train's too big :D Ralph
Before anyone complains, those figures are too small.
Ralph Berg said:Looks fine to me, but what do I know... I still play with trains. :PJon Radder said:The figures are fine............... the train's too big :D Ralph
Before anyone complains, those figures are too small.
Jon looks great. I bet it feel great to run trains. Now you cant use the heat as an excuse not to be outside. You have enough trees for shad to sit under as the trains run.
Finalley got some releif in the weather. Morning temps in the 50’s and low 80’s for the high. I had the big john run some log cars while the Rogers took some fright.
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I took some of Mik’s advise and fixed the piping etc and built a box for the axe.
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I took my free bobber caboose from Aristo and repainted it. I also added trucks to it and get rid of the single axle. Just needs decals.
…grinning…
Shawn said:You are right about the trees, especially when there is a little breeze. People keep suggesting I cut them down. That will never happen.
Jon looks great. I bet it feel great to run trains. Now you cant use the heat as an excuse not to be outside. You have enough trees for shad to sit under as the trains run.
Your railroad is looking good too Shawn. We had a slight break in the heat. AC has been off the last two evenings
The weatherman tells me we had a break in the heat too.
But I don’t consider 90F a break from the heat
Ralph
Nice Shawn. I like the cart.