Once again we pulled off another successful RailFest. It was cold, but not terribly. We lucked out with temperatures on Friday evening and the weekend days, and finished before it they dropped to an uncomfortable level Sunday night. The drama came at the end with a snowstorm with the area's first accumulation of the year, but it was not too bad.
I want to thank everyone who participated at one time or another over the weekend. Most appreciative to those who helped out with the planning and suggestions of what to do. Mahoney's in Poughkeepsie was spotted by me a few years ago and a mental note was made to consider it on the next New York-based Fest. Once suggested, it met with approval when we discussed it on the Sunday chat. Penny gets the accolades for calling the restaurant several times starting in the Fall, and up to the northbound trip on the train to Poughkeepsie to confirm our count of people.
As always I tried to keep up with each day's activities and kept track of our 23 participants' comings and goings as each of the 3 days completed.
Besides the changes already detailed in each day's follow-up reports, the homepage has been rewritten in the past tense.
We look forward now to our summer event in 6 months.