Tipped over

Last weekend my kids and I were guests at a FREMO-meeting of the local americaN-group. The subject of this meeting was set in the early transition era with a focus of steam operations. I’m more into diesels nevertheless it was a lot of fun. We stayed for a little more than four hours. Most of the time we spent holding a throttle and running trains.

My seven year old daughter was a little reluctant and didn’t want to run a train on her own in the first place. After we had completed our first “jobs” she ran a steam powered passenger train from the staging yard into the large yard. I helped her with coupling and operating turnouts and she enjoyed it a lot. Especially filling up the water tanks of the locomotive, which was symbolised with hourglasses: “There is an hourglass that takes five minutes!”

My nine year old son ran the trains on his own and just needed help with uncoupling. He likes switching most and his special love is running locals with some switching at the local industries.

On our way home the kids where enthusiastic and wanted to build some N-scale modules on their own. As I was thinking in this direction before, it didn’t take a lot work to convince me. So I’m tipped over towards N-Scale.