Happy Tuesday

 Tuesday means "Trains" at least that's the way I remember it.   That's the nice thing about picking the same day each week to come into the Mall.

 Tiny always gets there before I do and today he had his impressive Canadian National passenger train all ready to roll when I arrived with my MEC freight hauling GP9.


                                                                                                                                             
                                                                                         
Today I met a man who has been a member for many years but we met for the first time today.

His name is Dana Jipson.   A great guy who loves
to talk trains and ended up buying a vest from Carl
as well staying most of the first shift.  He even ran everything by himself for a while!

Later, Jim Hinkley stopped by and in the afternoon John and Mike were in early to take over.  John loves Moxie and brought in his favorite car plus many others to make up a nice freight consist.

Mike and James were trading war stories down in the cafeteria on a short break.  You know one of the best things about this event is getting to know some of the guys in the Club.  It works that way every year!

Today we had some professional talent singing and they will be returning especially for the Vets visit on this Friday.  Carl invited Don Campbell and his wife back to a special performance.  Christmas music was playing, Carl and Pat stopped by to conduct a little business down at the Mall office.  Friday with the Veterans is shaping up to be a nice event.  Please try to be there if you can a little before 10:30am.

Here are a bunch of short video clips from today
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