Day-16 at the Mall

 Tuesday was our first snowy day but luckily no problems.  Ernie was in early and had trains running nicely when I arrived.  We now have the Trolley line which was installed yesterday and that is running nicely.  Phil stopped by and brought in a character for the Thomas display. ( I think it was Frosty).  He also rescued
 Percy when he got stuck in a tunnel.


Dan and his wife Haley stopped in to run a train and ended up running the whole display as they took over as Ernie and I had lunch together.   That worked out great because we happened to sit next to a young man and his family who said he had an old Lionel train in his car that he didn't use but wanted us to have it.

 Here is a picture of it on the display and him presenting the engine to Ernie.

 He really was a fine young man and had a nice wife and daughter getting medical treatment here and he is in the US Navy (Submarines no less just like Ernie)  The Mall is a continuous story unfolding all the time.  We do love it.

Here are some short video clips from today.  Notice the Sawmill train switches its  self back and forth . (The guys from NHGRS liked how that worked too)   Please click here to take a look at that and some trains that Dan and I ran today:  

Grace and David came in to take over at 3 and they always do a top notch job.  They are both very good at talking to people and they really seem to enjoy it! (I guess that is the secret).  Norm also stopped in to check if anyone needed anything but everything was good.  That's the way we like to keep it!