Model Railroad Layout Tour - June 26, 2012

Corey and I have enjoyed the many visits to model railroads with Chuck's model railroading group. But, the visit to Bob Frey's interactive layout (in Greendale) on June 26, 2012, was absolutely outstanding. Two rooms of his basement were filled to capacity with the layout. What was so special about this particular layout, was that he had train manifests prepared so that we could actually run the trains to complete the tasks laid out in the manifest. In pairs (one person being the engineer and the other being the task master), we were given a manifest, a controller and told where our train was located at the moment. Corey and I were given the Beer train which was in Bryan Tunnel. Corey maneuvered the train out of the tunnel and we were off and running to pick up another beer car. Through a few derailments, a few shorts in the layout and having to wait for other trains, we managed to complete much of our manifest before it was time to say good-bye. Thank you, Bob Frey, for such a wonderful and fun-filled experience.