Day-2 Maine Mall

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  Today we had Tiny, Ernie, John on the Morning shift with help from Phil and James.  Our name & Logo is up on the Marquee and looks very good!  Tiny brought in his B&M RDC and a beautiful little steam train all decorated with CN Logo.
They looked very nice.  We ran the Amtrack and several other trains.  Things are settling down  and we and the Mall are happy with our start up.  We expect the Mall to do some more decorating tonight.  Speaking of decorating Dennis brought back 36 real nice looking artificial trees!  They looked so good we thought they were real!  Dennis and Mike came in for the second shift and we thank them very much for filling in the empty space on the schedule.  I thought I had taken some train videos but they did not come out, sorry.  The man from the Apple Store stopped over and he wants to take some pictures of the Layout.   Today we spent a lot of time talking to many of the interested viewers.  They seem ready to tell us lots of stories this year and they enjoy watching the layout with great interest.  Many people noticed changes in the layout and we are seeing lots of parents with young children stopping by. The interactive buttons seem to be working out very well this year.