More Local "Flavor"

The granddaughters visited again for a belated birthday get-together.  They like to think of what would go with the "theme" of the train layout.  I understand from the parents that they took quite a while deciding what would be best at the hobby store in Columbia, SC -- a nice stop for ice cream and model train birthday present shopping on the way from Charleston.

They did well!  We decided the Queen City Trailways bus was better at the train station to pick up local passengers than the REA Express truck (don't know where to put the truck, now, but maybe it will make a delivery somewhere!).

That works, and the Queen City -- Charlotte, NC -- is only 20 minutes up the road from us.  Notice, also, that the bus is headed to Raleigh, NC, where Great Granddad, Granddad, AND Dad attended college!  Not so sure Rock Hill, SC, was ever on the bus schedule, but it could have been. . .

Also placed a cereal truck to unload at the Company Store.  The Rice Krispies gnomes were first painted by a local artist, Vernon Grant, so there's another good fit.  These young ladies are catching on well!

We had to move the milk truck around to the other side, which may require shifting the Company Store over to give Bossman's Lincoln room to park.  No big deal.