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Posted: Tue Dec 18th, 2012 12:31 am

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Here are some photos of my favorite railroading adventure to date.

If any of you have visited Roy and his D.A.&P. you will know what I mean.
It is railroading and rail history.

I have been lucky to spend 2 afternoons there.
The first with a fellow from work, the second with Bill Davis.

Having been there before, we spent an hour or so talking with Roy,
then he announced :-
"Ken, you know what to do. Show Bill, I am going to take a nap"

And Bill and I were left to enjoy this amazing layout,
for about 3 1/2 hours on our own.

Posted: Tue Dec 18th, 2012 12:34 am

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Here are some of the memorabilia from Roy over the years...

1st class fellow...

Posted: Tue Dec 18th, 2012 12:36 am

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Simply wonderful!

Can you tell us more about this?

And more photos?

Woodie

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Posted: Tue Dec 18th, 2012 07:27 pm

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Will do, Woodie.

Roy has a small blacksmith shop on the end of his "engine house".
The tools are, for the most part, his Grandfathers.

One of the neater things he pointed out, are the 3 light bulbs in one photo.
They did not have speed control for the blower motor on the hearth.

So by screwing light bulbs in and out,
they could drop the voltage to the blower motor,
there by altering the speed of the blower or the forced draft.

Another neat item was the switch stand with the signal lighting on top.
The lenses are red & blue.
The blue lens and the yellow flame would produce a green light.

Lots of little facts that Roy loves to share if you have the interest.

Now, more photos....

Excuse the fat fingers...

Posted: Tue Dec 18th, 2012 08:05 pm

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And a few more random photos...

I also have quite a bit of video :2t:

I'll see what I can do with that in the future.

Needless to say, Bill and I had an absolute ball,

and Roy is the owner/operator of something very special.....

This and the next 2 photos show what the Brookville looked like when Roy purchased it.

The line up of 3 locos shows how small Roy's is.

Sorry about photo quality, the clear covers don't help, and I didn't want to tear Roy's
scrap book apart...