Iron Horseman
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Thirty two years ago I purchased three little 4-4-0s at a 90% off clearance sale at "Mile High Hobbies" in Downtown Denver. The Mountain Central unit was in a set with two passenger cars.
For 32 years it has been faithfully performing Christmas Tree duty for both singular trees and in the Christmas Forests. One year it was the power assigned to the package delivery train Christmas day. It started as DC, while its brother (D&RGW) was converted to PFM sound. When we started to expanding to multiple trees and multiple operators of the trains it got a DCC conversion in about 1995(?). The decoder is so old it is an original 2 digit channel with 14 speed steps.
Last year it was center stage around the largest tree in the Forest. Since there is no forest this year, it is assigned to my office's tree in the break room. The tree isn't much to look at but the little loco doesn't care. It just does its duty.
I wonder how many real miles this train has accumulated?
PS. Sorry for the poor quality "phone" camera pictures.
For 32 years it has been faithfully performing Christmas Tree duty for both singular trees and in the Christmas Forests. One year it was the power assigned to the package delivery train Christmas day. It started as DC, while its brother (D&RGW) was converted to PFM sound. When we started to expanding to multiple trees and multiple operators of the trains it got a DCC conversion in about 1995(?). The decoder is so old it is an original 2 digit channel with 14 speed steps.
Last year it was center stage around the largest tree in the Forest. Since there is no forest this year, it is assigned to my office's tree in the break room. The tree isn't much to look at but the little loco doesn't care. It just does its duty.
I wonder how many real miles this train has accumulated?
PS. Sorry for the poor quality "phone" camera pictures.
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