I was on a hobby shops Trek yesterday "317miles round trip" 8 Model Railroad specialties Shops in 9&1/2 Hours. A few of the Items I was looking for were decoders for 2ea 2-8-0 C-16 & 2ea 2-8-0 C-19 D&RGW light steam engines Soundtraxx DSD-101LC Decoders  for them & the RGS Galloping Goose #5  DCC/Sound card Tsunami TSU-1000 DCC w/Sound and 5 ea 0.78X1.56X0.31 Oval Speakers for all 5 engines and 14 differently numbered new Rolling stock by Blackstone in HOn3 as well as numerous accessories and books and DVD's. I finally found everything after 9&1/2 hours of Hobby Shops and headed home with my booty. I would consider this One GREAT Day I even put in a pre-order for Blackstones RGS #40 2-8-0 C-19 with DCC/Sound equipped to be released soon and even got a 10% discount for paying cash for the engine total price of $431.10 including TAX. I consider that a major bargain so even though The day cost me just short if $1500.00 and I used up all my model Railroad allowance until May of 2020 lol I was in heaven. I also left about 20 MRH fliers at each of the Hobby Shops and 6 of the 8 never heard of MRH and 4 of them brought up the Web site while I was there. I also talked to about 2 dozen customers about MRH magazine and the web site so hopefully well see some new faces so to speak soon. Right now I'm looking out my window and the 4 inches of snow we have received today so were headed into a white Christmas.

OH and a big Thanks to Blue and JoeF for the last minute help on Thursday.

Rio Grande Dan