DC Union Station 100th Anniversary

Garden Railroading
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Official celebration of DC’s Union Station this weekend of the 4th and 5th. The club will have a display there and lots of the real trains will be there including -
C&O F3 8016
B&O GP9 6604
C&O Gadsby Tavern
C&O Chessie Club
Southern RPO 36
Southern E8 6900
ACL E3 501
PRR GG1 4935
PRR E8 5711
PRR E8 5809
PRR 120
Little Juniata Rapids
Warrior Ridge
Greenwich Harbor
Cannon Ball
FRA DOTX 220
MARC bi-level
Amfleet Cafe Viewliner Sleeper
Superliner Transition Sleeper
Superliner Diner-Lounge
Superliner Sleeper
Acela

http://www.greatamericanstations.org/station-news/station-news/celebrate-100-years

-Brian

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Neat Brian, I hope you can post us some pictures of the day. That is a cool place.

Paul

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I took a bunch of pics (more than a hundred!). Now I have to sort and edit them. I’ll post a link to them when I do.

For now here are a few pics of our display and my 7/8n2 consist running on one of the loops. In the first pic you can see the headlight of the GG-1 in the window (top left).

-Brian

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Pics of the locos and some of the passenger cars (and a few of the layout) -

Slideshow - http://w113.photobucket.com/pbwidget.swf?pbwurl=http://w113.photobucket.com/albums/n214/altterrain/DC-UnionStation-100/62d9efe7.pbw

Album thumbnails -
http://s113.photobucket.com/albums/n214/altterrain/DC-UnionStation-100/?start=all

-Brian

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That’s some good stuff to see, Brian.

Thanks for sharing it…

Byron C.