Season’s Greetings readers ~
This week featured a nice variety of railroading escapades.
On Saturday I spotted Pennsylvania Power & Light locomotive
2102 in the downtown Billings yard. This is an SW1001 switcher, originally
built for the Reading Railroad back in 1973. It has a unique paint scheme, and
it was interesting to see it here in Montana.
On Monday I got to watch a MOW crew using a burro crane. One
of MRL's self-powered cranes was moving along the mainline near my office, and
it was rigged with an electromagnet attachment. It would stop every 20 feet or
so and pick up a piece of old rail, and dump it into a gondola. It was
interesting, and rather loud, to observe.
This week I set up a little Christmas tree in our office,
and I brought in the CNW 0-8-0 set to run underneath it. I also assisted a
coworker with troubleshooting one of his Lionel locomotives. He was having
trouble getting the whistle to operate, and we determined that the transformer
he was using didn't have sufficient power output. Anyway, my little freight
train looks nice around the tree :)
And, I unpacked my fleet of Lionel Christmas ornaments,
which will get to hang on a tree at our house.
Keep those Christmas rails shiny ~
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| PPL 2102, with its nifty paint scheme |
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| MRL burro crane loading up some rails with a big "BANG!" |
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| Christmas tree and train at work |
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| Lots of Lionel ornaments to put up this year at home! |
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