Last Sunday was our final night at Kennywood for this season. We received a visit from the park mascot, Kenny Kangaroo:
This season, we ended up with 35,609 visits to our layout. We use a counter to keep track and report the numbers to Kennywood. Doing this is helpful to Kennywood and was instrumental in their decision several years ago to move us out of the Parkside Cafe building and into the Arcade (doubling the size of our layout). In the coming years, the park is thinking about moving us again into an even bigger space. This might be part of the park's plan for their 125th anniversary which happens to coincide with our club's 25th anniversary in 2023.
Here is a video of just some of the trains we were running this season:
We had over 128 hours of running trains this season, and the park was only closed one day due to the weather.
Today was the final full day of work at Kennywood for this season:
The layout took eleven days to set up, and only a little over four days to tear down, pack up and haul out. Approximately a third of the layout went to a storage unit to wait until our next big layout (we consider our Greenberg setup a medium-sized layout):
One of the reasons we love doing this event is that we get to talk to hundreds, if not thousands of people about the hobby and answer their questions, and listen to their train stories and memories. Many even showed us pictures on their phones, and one even brought us print photos! One of the most common stories we hear is concerning the vague memories of their childhood experiences with toy trains:
We are all tired, but we are also looking forward to next season (and all the shows we will be doing in the mean time). 
Andy
