A week ago, Joe Fugate hosted the first operating session on the Siskiyou Line in nearly a year... if you don't count the one he held earlier that day for the National Narrow Gauge Convention. 

Remarkably, there really weren't all that many operators that showed up (so Joe got to run trains), and several of the ones that did were first timers or visitors from distant lands. One even brought a trio of DRGW SD40T-2's that we used as the helper set that night.

I had helpers first trick, and then I got to sit around and do nearly nothing as the Roseburg Yardmaster second trick (sometimes that's how it works out). If we'd gone another half-hour I would have been deliriously busy as I had at least three trains hitting the yard nearly simultaneously, two of which were terminating there with cars to sort out.

Brian Sopke photographs his train at West Switch, Rice Hill - on the main.

Charlie Comstock railfans the Rio Grande helper set of the train he's the conductor on. Rice Hill summit, on the main

Bruce Morden, who was the Layout Design Special Interest Group coordinator in Anaheim at the convention, watches his train descend from Rice Hill summit towards the west switch. (Thanks to Joe for the name & position)

Supervisor Fugate gets to run a train - Cottage Grove, picking up water cars. It's notable that he's one of the few people who can actually watch his trains here from that angle. (Hey, it's his layout!)

More photographs can be found in my photo gallery.