PEI Visitors

Saturday five operators from PEI made the trip to operate on the WRS.  They arrived around 10 am.  Three of the members who had not operated on the WRS were given a tour of the Railroad, while Scott set up their WI-Fi system so they could use their smart phones.  But it turned out that only Scott's was able to use his phone.  Mr Murphy likes causing problems on the WRS.

Scott head to the White River Board & Fibre to operate the Mill's switcher.  Steve did the Mainline runs (Train 101, Train 102 and Train 103).  Derwin did the switching duties at the North Yard.  Ken and WRS Regular Glen started with Train 202 heading North.  The final visiting operator Alistair departed the North Yard with Train 201.

The session continue with Alistair heading North with Train 204 as Ken and Glen Head South with Train 203.    For the finial shift of the day, Ken and Glen head North with Train 206 and Alistair headed south with Train 205.

The session lasted about an hour longer then planned.  Most of this was because of people not knowing the Railroad and also there where a few issues with the locos (electrical and couplers).

Ken (far left), Alistair (centre) and Glen (far right) meeting in Roseton

Scott (centre) working the Mill as Steve (left) is waiting to enter the Mill with his train.


Sorry Derwin, did not get a photo of you.

After the Session it was off to Lunch, where we were joined by WRS Regular Wayne.

After Lunch the PEI gang headed off to Pierre's and Maritime Hobbies before returning back to the WRS.   During this time Wayne and I returned to the WRS to set up for the second session and Glen had to leave us for another appointment.

The original plan was to have the second Ops Session on the WRS, but everything took longer then planned, so there was a short discussion session before heading over to the Fall River and Eastern Railroad to a visit.  After the FR&E visit, the crew headed home to PEI.

I would like to thank first the PEI Crew for making the trip, I hope you all enjoyed yourselves.  And second Glen and Wayne for helping with the session.

For me it was interesting to see how another crew operated the WRS.  There are a few things I have to look into as my regular crew has learn how to work around them.

Doug