Choo Choo Barn

It’s a meeting of the minds to repair the rollback. Eric and Mike are trying to figure out how to run power to the animation when it’s outside of the layout so that they can test it.

The cleaning continues by the fire scene.

Mike unearthed a bit of nostalgia when he moved the tobacco barn yesterday. He said he noticed some leftover snow around the base so he thought maybe he could remove it to more thoroughly clean up the flakes. When he lifted the barn, he found some of George’s (Tom’s father’s) handiwork! He said that Tom always told him that when George would be on the layout, he would use whatever was around him and make it work. In this case, he wanted to make the lightbulb shine in only one direction, so he used an Lionel box to cover it on three sides. George had also used some rocks to landscape around the barn and he put the leftovers inside of it!

Check out these fun specials at Down On The Farm Creamery this Saturday!

It’s been dark the past few days thanks to a big snowstorm but Mike will be back soon! Don’t worry - we are still on schedule for a mid-March reopening!