A full parking lot greeted late arrivals

Getting the grill ready to fire up

The bar-b-cue brigade
Charlie Richmond, John Christiansen & Son, Bob Miller

Cooking up burgers and BS
 

Bob & Judy Miller, Carita Christiansen

Mary and Errol Coker

Chip and Judi Mullen

Hope, Beth, Richard and Chase Clayton

Chip & Judi Mullen, Marty Barkley, and Mary & Errol Coker

Carolyn and Charlie Richmond with a box of new goodies

Mike Kelley and wife Noemi and mother Ina Claire
Ina was the wife of a train dispatcher for 49 years

Chip teaches Judi how to select a loco address

and Judi has it up and running in no time

Carolyn and Larry Stella looking over West Roxburgh

Richard, Marty and Jim exchange war stories

Marty Barkley, Jim Dunnuck, Bob Miller and Richard Clayton

Carolyn and Larry Stella at the Paulsboro Paper Mill

Mike Kremheller putting a log train on the narrow gauge switchback trestle

Even with and armful of Chase, Richard lends a hand to Moe

Barb & Marty Barkley and Sandy & Jim Dunnuck

Moe January placing a Mikado on the narrow gauge tracks at Meyer Junction for an inaugural run

Errol & Mary Coker and Sandy & Jim Dunnuck

Larry Stella and John Christiansen
 

Judy Miller, Sandy Dunnuck and Barbara Barkley setting out food
 

Bob Miller leads us in prayer

Let's eat!

Chase Clayton

A full table

Marty Barkley, Richard Clayton, Jim Dunnuck and Mike Kelley

Mike & Sherry Kremheller, Judy & Bob Miller admire a shay at Mundwiller switchback

Rose and Mark Herzog at the car unloading dock at Port Keechi

Hope Clayton
"Say cheese!"

Moe January, Johnnie Krezinski and Bob Miller

Duane Darling, Judi Mullen, Rose Herzog, Chip Mullen

Marty Barkley and Richard Clayton

Marty Barkley, Richard Clayton and Jim Dunnuck

Carita and John Christiansen and Johnnie Krezinski.
Johnnie is holding a book that has landscape pictures that he refers to
while he creates his fantastic looking rock terrain scenery.
Having reference drawings and pictures is as important to the success of
realistic scenery as it is to building realistic bridges or locomotives.

Jim Dunnuck, Marty Barkley and Charlie Richmond
discussing the potential at West Roxburgh

 

Johnnie Krezinski and Duane Darling take a break after all that food!

More Food! Dessert time, with birthday cake and a variety of other goodies.

Mike Kremheller runs a galloping goose up Mundwiller switchback
as Richard Clayton backs a freight train into a siding at Pistol Hill

Pistol Hill seeing a lot of action as all tracks are occupied

Mike Kelley, Sandy and Jim Dunnuck

Mike Kremheller and Duane Darling
"I need a nap"