Gratiot Valley Swap Meet and Show

Sunday March 6th, 2006

 

If you can't go to Diamondhead, bring a little Diamondhead to you.  King Cake for all!

John Wessels Accucraft shay doing a nice job pulling the heavy load. 

Fritz Brohn stops to show the new tender for his Ruby.

Bev Fuller taking a break before her next run.  She said afterwards that she got more than her fair share of track time.

Bob Weltyk has his Daylight steaming up while he prepares his passenger cars for a run.

Here's my Ruby pulling a load of John Wessels logs. 

John Fuller gives our newest member Tim Toland a few pointers.  Tim had a great time at his first MSSLS steamup.

Ed Bostic had a few great runs with his Aristo plastic steamer.  There were many inquiries from the spectators about this engine

Jim Bowers celebrated is 1st anniversary this day with the group.  Jim always has something interesting to see.

Here is some of the eye candy Jim supplied on this day.  Good imagination Jim.

John Helmer had his backwoods logger running like a clock.

A nice view of John's train.

Bev Fuller finally got her Shay oiled up and ready to go.

Here is Bev telling Jim Bowers the finer points of running a Shay.  Jim says he'll stick with his Roundhouse Forney's.

Oh yea, the coal was smokin!