Ryanne
Age ~ 10 yrs.
What else can a Grandpa say except that Ryanne, is a well, a cutie and has the personality to
match. This is a unbiased opinion of course!
18 mo. old Ryanne checking to make sure the engineer is in the engine.
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She is in 5th grade, she enjoys "helping" her grandpa work on railroad and run the trains
in the front yard, she sterted at age 1 1/2 running the trains by herself, her favorite car was a bubble
blowing car, she started inside on a loop with track power but only when an
adult was there, it took her probably 3 or 4 months before she really had an idea what she was
doing, in the beginning sometimes I had to turn the momentum
feature on if she got a little wild, and there was only one time I had problem and that was the
time her older cousins showed her how to put people on the track and run into them and I quickly put
a stop to that! but at about 2 1/2 she was good enough at it I bought her a little LGB 0-4-0
glued "Winnie the Pooh" in it for a engineer coupled a couple of Bachmann circus animal
cars behind it (she actually likes to run trains slow) and let her run the train by
herself, she would go in there, turns the power on, run her train, when she was done
she'd park the train on the back of the loop and turns the power off!! Well most of the time. [8-)
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Now on the outside railroad she only run's the trains with me there, but she likes to run
the Climax or the little 2-6-0 because she likes to blow the whistle and ring the bell, she had
trouble with the stiff buttons on the old style RCS remote because of her arthritis
she has it in over 21 joints, she did not have enough strength in her fingers to push the two buttons
at the same time to blow the whistle or ring the bell, but those new "clicky" buttons that RCS
has introduced and Tony Walsham owner of RCS-remote control
did a retrofit for her, with those new style buttons now they are much easier for her to push. Thank you Tony!!!!
Her grandmother and I enjoy helping raise her....
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