[b]Steve Seitel, his lovely wife Dee, all the way from Montana, and their friends Ron & Pat from Livermore, California dropped by on Thursday.
Something’s happening down on the railroad…
Why it’s Dee, Pat, Steve and Ron unloading Steve’s boxcab diesel on POC engine terminal trackage at Coos Bay!
And a beautiful boxcab it is! Even in it’s uncompleted state it’s a work of art. I guess we’ll have to put it to work. 
Steve selects his caboose from the caboose track while the railfans cheer him on.
…and brings it down to the yard to connect it to his waiting train.
Extra 0 blasts out of town and across Davis Slough trestle under the steady control of Engineer Seitel. What a smooth running lokie!
Steve arrives on the outskirts of Bandon and gets right to work.
A bit of switching to do keeps the boxcab busy.
Meanwhile Ron has brought his train, headed by ol’ number 7 into Port Orford. Originally assigned number 6, an engine swap was necessary because of low batteries. I discovered to my chagrin that none of the batteries had been recharged since March! Remarkable that anything ran at all. I would have taken more photos but I became busy running a railfan special for all the aficionados following the actions of the new visiting boxcab.
Number 4 did the honors.
The train at Bandon. Many opted to sit in the caboose. At least I was successful in keeping our old local wino from getting into my photos this time; what a ham! Unfortunately I don’t think our visitors were so lucky. I’m sure his ugly mug got into some of their photos. Hopefully they will post a more comprehensive photo coverage of the day’s visit. We had a nice lunch in town and I want to thank Steve, Dee, Ron and Pat for stopping by. It was wonderful fun and I hope we can do it again sometime. Another visit to add to the list of wonderful people that have been here over the years, some multiple times. Kinda makes the whole thing worthwhile. [/b]
