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t took me ninety minutes to get to the club on my drive out. My adventure involved a missing man, a roadside emergency, a diversion to pick up a member, a missing key, a missing dinner, a found key, and then 6pm Colonial Drive traffic. And then there was the layout failing to come up inexplicably, of Kyle and myself rushing about as people checked engines, and finally a solution (sorta) that we are not sure about. And THEN, when we finally got to run, my Pennsy F’s which had run so nice on Monday’s test ran faulted and sputtered […]

ell, it was a week full of sucking, specifically inlaws sucking cash and me siphoning water from a blown washing machine (which will also suck cash). And eyeball surgery, which made my vision a bit “off”, which sucks, too. And then there was the sucky second-guessing conversation about when, specifically, in the PM this session would take place. So I wasn’t sure if I was going to come or just sit at home and try to read anime subtitles. But I got three offers for rides out (since my driving kinda sucks right now, too) and accepted Terry B’s gracious […]

n the Tuscarora, my micro-layout, you can climb aboard the cab of an eastbound coal train. You’ll rattle out of Westly, cross Tenmile Creek, enter the Tuscarora interlocking plant, whistle at the signpost, look for orders at the tower, cross Morgan Street, loop through the long curve between Inner and Outer industrials, clear town and enter Easton. That’s your run. You will probably pass a freight train in Tuscarora, same engine, same consist (perhaps progressively shorter) each time. The run takes maybe 30 seconds. On the Lehigh, Monongahela and Ohio, you’ll board a coal train at Carbon Hill. After doing […]