Maine Mall Day-9

Tiny and John had the morning shift.  To get everything going there were 3 things to do:  

1.  Plug the main cord into the Orange 3-way plug in the MGRS Control Area.  That turns on all the transformers.
2.  The Column almost touching the main deck has a Power strip plugged into it.  Turn it on, it turns on the water fall and the interactive signs for Thomas and Circus.
3.  Plug in the TV set and the Thomas Give-a-way Desk into the other Column. (Try to find the remote to turn on the TV).   The "Give-a-way" desk just showed up today and people started putting in entries for a free giveaway.   Tiny took charge and cut up the slips.  The Mall had given us pages with 3 to a page and then someone found a box to collect the slips.   And with that the MGRS free train raffle was underway!  The plan is to add a display case where the train set will be kept.


Getting back to trains, Tiny brought in his beautiful MEC 470 passenger train,  his Candian National steam train and his RDC Car.
In the afternoon Carl, Mac and our newest member Dan came in to run trains and take over the operation.
Dan brought in a nice looking Maine freight train and seemed to be right at home.  Thanks Dan we all welcome you to MGRS!  Carl and I fiddled around with the Sawmill reversing line and we did get that running again.  This time we used a small steam engine that looks right at home and fits nicely with the sawmill.   The train is on a timer that shuts down 15 minutes every hour so please don't worry if you happen to see it not running.  It has to go 10 hours a day and we want it and the reversing unit to last.

To see a video of the trains that ran today:  Click here:  

Dan





  The "Hood man"  stopped by to see Carl and leave his truck as part of this years display.