First Open House

I had my first open house last Friday evening...sort of. Lisa and I had some friends over for a rather chilly bonfire. Since many of our friends know that I "play with trains" in the garage but have never seen what I have been building, I decided to clean things up a bit and make the layout as presentable as possible., After all, it was on a direct path from the beverage refrigerator to the fire pit!
I decided to treat it as an open house, so in the afternoon I spent some time tuning two opposing trains running around the layout.

I had one minor accident when I forgot and left one of the crossovers,,,engine to engine meet! But otherwise, the running went well and my friends enjoyed watching the trains. Success!