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CHscenic

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09/22/2008 4:01 PM
The Vermont Garden Railroad Society held a special event at the final open of the season. We had the "Great Hopper Haul off". The idea was to create the longest hopper train ever run on the Camel's Hump Scenic Railroad. Members brought over 90 hopper cars to use. We held the guess the number of hoppers contest to raise money for the module club. After the contest we added lots of cars and engines on the point, at mid train, and as a pusher. This was a fun day and it did not go without a major derailment. It was a beautiful day and everyone enjoyed seeing the long train run. Here is the link to pictures and a link to a youtube video. Enjoy. David Cozzens The pictures http://cozzman.org/gallery/HopperCar08 The video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiIPnoe_CZU

CHscenic

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09/22/2008 4:23 PM
I guess I need some advice as to how to make the links active! I hope someone can tell me. Thanks DC

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09/22/2008 4:57 PM
That's a lot of hoppers :-) Great work. Looks like there were some derailments and other issues before you got the whole train going. Very nice! Very nice video too! I like how the train goes "over itself". I'll have to keep that in mind for the next layout :-) To post links use the following syntax: < a href="http://cozzman.org/gallery/HopperCar08">pictures< /a> I added an extra "blank" character so you could see what it would look like after each of the "<" characters. Remove those extra blanks and you will see a link like this: pictures

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09/22/2008 5:22 PM
Let's give this a try: http://cozzman.org/gallery/HopperCar08 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiIPnoe_CZU

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nick s.

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CHscenic

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09/22/2008 6:55 PM
Thanks guys. You are all very helpful. Glad you enjoyed it. DC

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09/23/2008 2:10 AM
Re: derailment in the Great Hopper Haul Off Yes there was one(or more). Picture of the most spectacular: Small web page, with my largest pics as links(click on the pic for full size) http://vtgrs.org/images/Camel's Hump Scenic Great Hopper Haul Off 2008_tn.html

Terl

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09/23/2008 5:45 PM
Nice railroad. It's pretty fun and challenging to run a long train. Terl

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