[b]Had the priviledge of a very nice visit by Bruce Chandler and his lovely wife Jean. Of course Bruce as a visiting engineer had to run a train… For those on dialup…Please let me know if the 13 photos in this post resulted in too long of wait. If so I’ll make future posts with fewer photos.
Bruce with his train at the unfinished Bandon area.
An unusually long train today, 10 cars, that could cause problems when he brings it into Coos Bay. I can’t imagine why the train should be so long…! Just one of those things I guess. 
His train parked on the inbound track Bruce runs number 6 around the train to begin switching.
It’s starting to rain now as number 6 breaks up its train.
Hat set straight on his head a little rain doesn’t phase this grad of TOC’s School of Wet Water Ops.
A car is dropped at the team track shed.
After pulling a couple of outbound cars more cars are dropped off at the lumber warehouse and uncoupled from the caboose.
Hmmm! The rain made these flimsies even flimsier. Now if I can only read that goofy dispatcher’s rotten writing.
The sun is shining now (eat your heart out Dave) as number 6 blocks the county road.
Bruce is making great progress on this 30 minute switch job. Only a little over an hour has passed. 
Jean drops by to view the action.
Another job well done as engineer “Close Clearance Chandler” (ask Bruce :D) brings his steed into the service area.
A trip on the turntable and into the roundhouse completes a busy shift. We had a lot of fun and Bruce and Jean are such wonderful people. I do hope we can get together again some time. You guys are always welcome here…![/b]
The sun also helped dry us out after the first part of the session just drenched us.
