I had a nice e-mail from Thomas Wai today: “My family and my friend’s family came to visit the Train Museum at Fort Bragg earlier this summer. Sorry that it has taken me this long to get around uploading the photos onto a link for you to download. Hope you don’t mind.”  Thomas sent a bucket load of great photos of his family and the layout. For ease of viewing I’ve put them into three galleries.

Click on any photo to enlarge/see gallery.

The Family

Thomas took these photos inside our Train Barn:

Thomas also took some pics outside:

Here’s Audrey writing in our visitor’s book:

A special greeting from a special visitor

And what did she write?

Lincoln and Audrey’s signatures in the visitors book

I really enjoyed visiting with the Zeitvogel family who recently visited our layout when on holidays from Germany. Just from watching it was clear that Stefan Niklas Zeitvogel was an excellent photographer. So, I asked if they would be kind enough to send a selection of the photos that Stefan took so that I could post them on this blog. Well, here’s the e-mail I received today:

“Dear Tony,

We met when we were visiting your wonderful model train exhibition ( Roger, me and my son Stefan Niklas who loved to take photos of the trains ) .

As promised we have selected a few ones attached above and hope you will like them. 

We enjoyed the skunk train and the model train world very much.

All best wishes from Lake Constance in Germany,

Patricia, Roger and Stefan Niklas.”

As you will see below Stefan’s photos are superb. Click on any photo to see full size.

Gru and the minions plotting evil

Kids playing on the see-saw – depot in background

Taking materials to the enginehouse

Working on the loading dock

Fuel for the steam donkeys waiting to be unloaded

Yard loco hard at work

Very old Shay loco waiting to go to work

Detail on the scratchbuilt old Shay loco

Stefan, thanks for visiting and sharing your photos.

Daughter  Holly (she’s a sommelier) was in town for a very few days recently. As usual she prowls around the layout looking for what has changed since she was last here, Here’s what she spied:

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Club member Roger Thornburn recently sent out this e-mail to club members …..

“Chuck’s grand-son-in-law, Nathan, used his drone to make a video of the outside of the barn [wherein lies the MCMR&HS layout].  It’s now up on YouTube and you can see it here – https://youtu.be/TffFLF54jkI

I’ve also added it to the YouTube page on our website – http://www.mendorailhistory.org/1_home/youtube.htm .I think Nathan would like to get one from the inside as well!!!!.

Enjoy,
roger”

It’s a great vid.

I received this e-mail from Stephanie Perdue today:

“…….. Thank You…. and to Chuck for giving us the “VIP” experience. We had a great time and my father-in-law was thrilled to see everything. You guys are amazing and have done great work with your museum, we are honored to have met you and learned of your experiences.

These pics arrived on a USB. The postmark was New Orleans. And that’s all I know. Any road – here are the pics:

Daughter Annalise came to town last week armed with her camera. One essential port of call was our layout wherein she could see the progress since her last visit. Here’s the pics she took. Click on any thumbnail to invoke gallery.

Donald Holland e-mailed the following: “I took a bunch of pictures of the model railroad. Frank said to e-mail them you for club use.” The photos as super as you can see in the gallery below. Click on one photo to access the gallery.