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The North Pen 'O' Gaugers club set up at Greenberg’s Great Train & Toy Show in Oaks, PA this weekend.  I wanted to mix it up a bit and I figured January was just as good a time as any to run some Halloween fun. So, I decided to bring my brand new End of the Line Express Lion Chief+ Mikado.  I realized, however, late last night that I only have 4 cars to go behind her and one of them is too tall for the bridge.  Then, I heard a sound off to the west, as if from Arkansas..."SCROUNGE" it called, "You can surely SCROUNGE something!  @M. Mitchell Marmel would be proud.  I grabbed two Lehigh Valley flat cars and some fun toys and made two more cars for my consist.  On the way to the show, my wife and i came up with a really cool idea...how about a "Halloween Parade" train.  Towns around here love their Halloween and Christmas Parades.  I thought, "Instead of flatbed trucks, why not flatbed trains!"  So we did  a quick lap around the show and found some good buys on flatbeds and gondolas and started brainstorming.  We got an all-orange work caboose and threw two extra dime-store zombies on it to put at the tail end of my consist just in time for my slot on the schedule.

Here's a video from the run:

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And here are the rest of the cars we bought.  These will become Halloween and Christmas small-town parade floats someday.  They'll be local business and clubs from our life.  The red/grey work caboose will probably end up as Santa.