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A&O Railroad => A&O Operations => Topic started by: Bob on June 18, 2023, 08:38:41 PM
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Feel free to add your photos of the 8-hour marathon open house for the O-Scale National Convention on June 10th. I took very few because I spent most of my time as the dispatcher's desk.
First up, the work before an open house is never done. Here David adds a starter paint job in "River Gorge", which during his painting effort guests started to arrive and so it became a mini-clinic.
(https://i.postimg.cc/64wcS3fW/IMG-1944-impromptu-clinic.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/64wcS3fW)
Levi Bacon volunteered to keep trains moving around the layout for guests.
(https://i.postimg.cc/mzWKLTyq/Levi-runs-a-demo-train-southbound-from-the-tunnel-exiting-Linnwood.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/mzWKLTyq)
A guest (nametag not visible) shoots a video of a northbound train.
(https://i.postimg.cc/9zWNJ88G/A-guest-shoots-a-video-of-a-northbound-train.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/9zWNJ88G)
Sarah Grissenboeck came all the way from Austria. She brought her big Sony camera to the open house.
(https://i.postimg.cc/JGH3qjLN/Austrian-Sarah-Grissenboeck-tours-the-A-O.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/JGH3qjLN)
Sarah had the opportunity to run a southbound train behind A&O 4000, seen here, with Rick Bacon as her road pilot.
(https://i.postimg.cc/LhwLnh1n/IMG-1952.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/LhwLnh1n)
Ted Schempf, a popular vendor at the train show, came up after he loaded his trailer and ran David's ABBA set of F units southbound with a coal train to be unloaded at the Whiting Rotaside rotary.
(https://i.postimg.cc/jL6HmtD2/Ted-Schempf-brings-a-long-coal-train-behind-an-ABBA-set-of-F-units-heading-for-the-rotary-dump.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/jL6HmtD2)
Now at the rotary, with its a new Silent Stepper drive mechanism, synchronized sound, and single pushbutton control, Ted unloads a coal hopper.
(https://i.postimg.cc/bZBhhXMc/Ted-dumps-a-live-load-of-coal-at-the-Hatfield-Whiting-Rotaside-dumper.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/bZBhhXMc)
I'm sorry I missed photographing so many valued guests. When I'm sitting at the US&S 506 replica machine, even a couple trains keep me busy.