Excellent work everyone! Mike, I think you worked harder than all the rest of us put together!!
I had planned to join the NorthEast Ohio fellows this morning for breakfast and a visit to Eric's layout in Hiram. Well, the bad knee has been kicking out on me all week. The longer I sit, the worse it is. So I decided I wasn't going to drive 1 3/4 hours each way to join them. I would have had to get up at 3 to get there in time with all the stops I would have had to make. 
So instead, I ended up taking my wife and older daughter to my Mum and Dad's empty house to go through some things they may want. Yesterday we got the official offer agreement to sign to sell the house for the appraised value to a local organization that provides elder care and housing. They have been buying up everything they can get their hands on. They will take the 131-year old house, out buildings and property pretty much as is, fix what they want, and rent it out until they have other plans. My guess is as much as they own and as far as this is from their other facilities, the house still may be standing when my generation has all passed on. So there is some work to be done before my surgery, but not what I had feared. 
So there won't be much train time for a while other than checking out what all of you are doing. 
