3/29/2008 Running Session.
Great Day for a Running Session.
Edward N/B Train BN #1776, BN #1876 with 21 Grain Cars.
John S. S/B Train NW #541, NS #3975, NS #7000 with 19 Mix Fright.
Matt N/B Train L&N #1515, L&N #1514 with 35 Mix Fright.
Jason N/B Train #57, #726 with 34 Coal Cars.
Larry S/B Train Southern #4137 with 12 Mix Fright.
Dispatcher was Terry
Would like to thank all our Guests that came down.
3/22/2008 News Letter.
Great work day for the Dixie Club.
Mike with his Paint Sprayer had at work.
Matt, Larry and Terry doing odd jobs and Cleaning Windows/Track Cleaning and helping Mike.
3/15/2008 News Letter.
Wonderful day at the Club.
Matt, Mitch, Jason, John S, Mike, and Larry all working hard on the remodeling work going on, Wall building, sheet rocking, Muddling.
To bring everyone up to speed the remodeling work is to make the place look nicer and helps us get one step closer to building Phase 3 of the layout.
Phase 3 of the layout will be, Build from Bridgeport to Stevenson and up to Anderson Siding and will Start the first section of the Southern Rathole at Harriman Jct.
And will build Kayne Ave and Union Station in Nashville.
Phase 3 will add about 150 FT more of main line Running.
3/9/2008 News letter.
Fine work day at the Club.
Mike, Larry and Mitch worked hard on building new wall and cleaning off old wall.
3/1/2008 News Letter.
Just Larry & Mitch this weekend working hard on putting up Sheet-rock for the remodeling going on.
2/23/2008 News Letter.
Fine, fine day at the facility.
Dave worked with Mitch on getting the rest of the yard wired up.
Jason and John S. made trees and hung them out to dry.
Mike and Larry worked on the stairway wall.
PS: I have got the New Photo's of the Layout posted. A lot has changed, Enjoy.
2/16/2008 News Letter.
Good Day Saturday,
Started the day off with our February Meeting.
After the Meeting,
Mike worked on Computer and helped run some wire.
Dave & Mitch worked on Installing switch Machines at West End Yard Lead.
Larry worked on Wall and moved things out of the way for the BIG wall Cleaning & Painting.
Keith worked on Buildings.
Jason worked on background Scenery on the Mountain close to James.
Terry got the New Signals put in at Bridgeport and Shall Mound.
2/9/2008 Running Session.
Super Day Saturday,
New for this year we are making a DVD of the Trains Running on the Layout.
Here is a list of trains that was running for the video Camera, We got some good photo's and video of the Trains.
[1] Mike N/B CSX 8-40CW #7812, #7839, #7818 pulling a 21 car mixed freight.
[2] Terry S/B Santa Fe #157, #502, #518, #563 with a 22 car Stack Train.
[3] Edward N/B BN #5114, #8090, #6318 With a 24 car Mix Fright.
[4] Jason N/B BR&P #726 and a 31 car coal train.
[5] Matt S/B L&N #1514 & 1515 pulling a mixed freight.
[6] Dave, S/B DM&IR #172, #180, #310 with a 30 car limestone train.
[7] Mitch, S/B L&N 2502 with a 16 car mixed freight.
[8] John S, N/B NS #9793, N&W #541, NS #3975 with a 23 car Mix Fright.
[9] Terry Redeker N/B BNSF #9547, KCS #2000, KCS #4501 with a 24 car Coal Train.
[10] Larry N/B Rio Grande A-B-A #601 with a 7 car Passenger Train.
2/2/2008 News Letter.
What a Day, Good team Work going on, A lot got done.
Day Shift
Mike and John S. Help on Clean up.
Larry and Mitch Help on Clean up plus worked on the Steps wall and Cleaned the paint off the windows.
Keith did some Track work and Buildings layout.
Matt did his thing on the Backdrops.
Dave did more nice Tree work at K.O. (Hobo camp is in place, Thanks John S. for the Hobo's)
Terry Changed out the Signals at Bridgeport and Finished the Ballast work on the Mountain.
Edward & Marshall Ran the Track Cleaning Trains.
The Night Shift
Dave, Terry and Edward worked on the Yard.
Edward cleaned track in the yard.
Dave & Terry wired up all of East End Yard Lead and all tracks in the yard on the East End.
PS: Next weekend I'll get all the up-to-date photo's of the layout plus more photo's of trains running. There has been some big changes done to the layout, Scenery, Ballast and Tomar & BLMA Signals installed. Stay Tuned.
1/26/2008 News Letter.
Nice day for club activities.
Dave worked on the scenery at K.O.
Mitch worked on the scenery on the Mountain.
Jason, Mike and Larry worked on taking off blue paint off some of the windows and did more clean up.
Matt did some more fine backdrop painting at Shall Mound.
1/19/2008 News Letter.
Good ole work/Clean Up day on Saturday.
The big clean up work going on, Keith, Larry, Doyle, Dave, Matt and Mitch moving forward to make room.
Dave got a jump start and took out some of the wood Friday.
After taking out all the old wood from the walls.
Jason did some Grass work at James.
Dave made Trees help Terry on Ballasting for a wile, Dave did some Tree work at K.O. started at the River working his way to K.O. Sure does look very good.
Terry worked on more Ballast work on the Mountain.
1/12/2008 News Letter.
Good day at the Club.
Terry and Mike worked on Ballasting on the Mountain.
John S. and Mitch doing scenery work on the Bridgeport side.
Dave was wiring the East End of the Yard and doing other stuff as well.
Edward was helping two or three folks with enthusiasm.
Larry fiddled around with things and worked on the dirt road at Bridgeport.
Keith continued on with the planning of the Wheland area and worked on Buildings.
