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Operating Session
Today most of the members of the Bull Run Hi-Railers met at the Sleepy Hollow Railway to assemble in one vehicle and head up to our favorite train store
Where we all had MTH orders that we wanted to pickup.
On the way back, we stopped in Leesburg and had lunch at the Red Hot and Blue.
Then it was back to the Sleepy Hollow to try out some of our new toys and generally have a fun afternoon operating trains.
Sleepy Hollow Passenger Service
I have been trying to find a project for an old 5 volt F-3 in my spare parts box, and after stumbling across an old Santa Fe passenger car set that the name and number boards had fallen off of due to what I can only assume was defective glue, an idea formed to make a passenger set out of them for my Sleepy Hollow Railway.
The passenger cars only required repainting and decaling the name and number boards, and then reattaching them with CA adhesive. The F-3 had been a retro New Haven paint scheme that required extensive sanding and repainting.
To finish up the project I added custom LED lighting boards to the passenger cars, and of course I could not resist the temptation to make one of the cars haunted, by adding skeleton figures painted with glow in the dark paint, and UV leds in the lighting board.
