| Gents - Attached are a couple of photos of Southern Railway 2-8-0 # 401 at Monticello Railway Musuem on Saturday, 9-18-10. Thanks to Don Crimmin for these photos. I was at MRM today (Sunday, 9-19-10) and what follows is a quick report. First of all, the 401 looks and sounds GREAT! Betty and I rode in Brian Higgins IC business car # 7 that carried the markers on the steam train. New wood panelling has been put in the rear compartment of that car and it looks wonderful. And the seats remain as comfortable as I remember them. We also rode Wabash caboose 2834 on the freight train which was pulled by the two CN FPA4's. Lots of tank cars still stored on MRM tracks, so this run was limited as to its length. I walked out to the shop to look around and then rode the "caboose hop" back to the Nelson's Crossing depot. Power was the Milwaukee Road NW2 pulling the little IT wood transfer caboose. Nice touch! I managed to get a number of photos of the 2-8-0 during the day, and maybe one or two of them might even turn out! Some surprises: A gentleman had his 1-1/2" scale Mogul fired up and running on a table with rollers under the drivers! So the engine never went anywhere! A WONDERFUL idea. It's been a while I guess, since I was last at MRM, because they have a two track covered train shed just to the east of the Nelson's Crossing depot. But the MOST surprising thing there today, was the lady who was at the throttle of number 401 on some of her afternoon runs. That was TERRIFIC! She really could make the Consolidation talk! All in all, a most wonderful way to spend a September afternoon! Les | 
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