Worked on the layout this morning cleaning the track thoroughly from the Mississippi River up to West Joliet. I also marked all held cars at industries for loading/unloading with paper clips.
This evening, I cleaned the track from Joliet to Chicago. I still have Davenport Yard and West Davenport to complete.
I test ran some equipment the length of the layout and back. All seemed to run well once the track was clean. I utilized two of my lovely assistants Elizabeth and Sarah to help test the equipment. They are already qualified as junior operators. I had the locomotive speed set pretty high to give them a good workout. When I handed the throttle over to Elizabeth she slowed it down to prototypical speeds looked at me and smiled. Sarah has the ability to stop a locomotive at the exact point where it needs to be. Both exercised a lot of control in operating. Daddy was so proud!
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