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Glen
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Robbie Haines and the crew setting out the carved pumpkins for the Whooloween night run. Dave Foster and Tom Reder setting out pumpkins with candles alongside of the track. |
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Robbie helping Dave clear out the pumpkins from the station addition where we stored them after the carving session. Ron Trenhaile going to do some track clearing for the run. |
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Dave, Tom and Dick Clark contemplating the arrangement of pumpkins at Horrendous. Witch on a wire strung above the tracks on Big Bend Bridge |
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The witch would run back and forth across the line turning around at each end. The Roberts unloading their diesel on the new transfer table built up by Karl Losely |
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Dan Roberts positioning the engine on the turntable. Judson Elliott, Bill Besselman waiting as Ron Trenhaile asks Tom Reder to climb on for a test ride around the track. |
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The pumpkins as they were set up in the woods on the grade approaching "Zenith". As darkness descends, the pumpkins await the lighting of their candles. |
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The display alongside the track at "Hilde Hill". The eerie creatures and forms that the riders will just get a glimpse of in passing from the illumination from the headlights of the engines tonight. |
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The pumpkins aligned with the tracks at "Horrendous" which will see traffic tonight on both the outside rails (Horrendous at right and Gillette at left). |
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Dick putting the safety chains and couplers on the club's coach car. Dick waiting for the traffic to clear the departure rail at the western end of the yard. |
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George Woodling and Anne Johnson on his electric interurban. James Bradley with his newly acquired CliShay purchased from Rex Shriver and under steam after passing the boiler test. |
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Two more views of the engine under steam. |
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Matt Philpott dressed as a swashbuckling buccaneer for tonight's run. The public starting to line up for the run which starts at 6:30 p.m. |
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Linda Harris braving the rain as conductor. It turned out to be a cold and wet night. Roger Harnish gives instruction to riders as Ted Nyland waits for the "all aboard" call to depart. |
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Bill Besselman with the microphone for our talking skeleton and Bill Roberts on the bench. Edith Hacker trying to keep warm. The air hose is on the ground beyond her not in her hands. |
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The big Hudson sits in the rain as Marcell Uhrich stokes the firebox to raise steam. At the unloading point in front of the station riders were greeted with this pumpkin. |
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With safety lifted, firebox glowing, the Hudson shines from the cold rain as Marcel and Karl Losey tend to the firing of the engine. The beast is alive and waiting to be turned on the turntable. |
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Dick Clark just pulled up to be loaded as Mike Uhrich heads for the grade at Zenith with Comet cleanser for the track. Rex ran his switcher with a vinyl cover against the cold rain situation. |
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The public was wonderful in putting up with the rain and wet seats that we had to keep wiping up. The trains were shorter because of the slippery rails on the grade back in the woods. |
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With raindrops caught in the cameras' flash, Marcel cracks the throttle open on the Hudson. The public enduring the elements while waiting for a ride through our Halloween Woods. |
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Some of the costumes that the kids were wearing were colorful and inventive. Ron Trenhaile (at right) brought his straightjackets and was trying to get people to put them on for awhile. |
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