After a couple of pleasant days in St Louis at the'Fest, the PPSSWS contingent made a stop in Fort Madison to see the Shabbona railroad. I had forgotten that I had visited with Bob back in 2009, but remembered about half way down the basement steps. Not much scenery or structures but some wonderfully running code 100 trackwork. Bob ran several trains to schedule - a passenger train, the mail train and a grain and chemical freight train. We saw the work Bob had done on older S scale motive power (mostly Alco Models) to make them very smooth running. Lots of switches, all manual, to keep track of and an older 3 throttle DC system that Bob had intimate command of. I learned all sorts of track laying techniques that I can't wait to try out! A very pleasant hour and a half at the Shabbona Rail. Thanks, Bob!
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