Week 66
Sunday, October 11, 2015
This week started with a real special event.
Our own Carlos Baez got married today.
Here's a picture of his bride and the groom dancing the night away.
Carlos and Lynn Baez
Wednesday, October 14,2015
I was shocked to see Carlos today! I thought just getting married he'd be adjusting to his new life with his new wife. Well, since she was still working, Carlos made a stop at the shop today.
Here are some pics to capture the goings on at this week's train session held today
Welcome back, Carlos Baez. We missed you.
Carlos got right to work and installed two ground throw switches.
Ed Nelson found this job. He decided to layout the tracks at the Union Station Terminal.
Now we just need to purchase the remaining switches needed to finish the task.
We decided tonight to move our electrical connections from the phone wire to the bus wire.
We discovered there was a short somewhere in the connections.
The light on the transformer would dim as the voltage increased.
Carlos went to work, flashlight in hand, to solve the case.
Ed continued his work at the Union Station Terminal.
Doctor Carlos found the culprit. Discovered fairly early in the process.
Notice the white wire on the inside (left) of the right pair of wires and the orange on the outside (right)?
Well the pair on the left has the orange on the inside (left) and the white on the outside (right).
That's what caused our short.
When we connected the whites together and the oranges together, this caused the bad white/orange wires to be mismatched with the good white/orange wires.
Does that make sense? It sure doesn't after I read this post.
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A partial panoramic view of the layout.
Before making the complete panoramic view we discovered more trouble-shooting would be needed. Not sure what happened at the end of the video, but it doesn't sound good.
I remember what happened:
The problem we encountered was a bad connection on the elevated inside track.
That will be fixed when we finish the suitcase connections of the feeder wires to the bus wire next week.
Dave Worley at the controls.
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Love this overhead view of the UP Dash-9 coming into Proviso Yard.
Notice how it snakes through the yard throat on the east end.
Dean Hatzis was under the weather tonight and unable to attend.
Jordan Osborn wrenched his back, so he couldn't make it tonight either.
Wednesday, October 14,2015
I was shocked to see Carlos today! I thought just getting married he'd be adjusting to his new life with his new wife. Well, since she was still working, Carlos made a stop at the shop today.
Here are some pics to capture the goings on at this week's train session held today
Carlos got right to work and installed two ground throw switches.
Now we just need to purchase the remaining switches needed to finish the task.
We discovered there was a short somewhere in the connections.
The light on the transformer would dim as the voltage increased.
Carlos went to work, flashlight in hand, to solve the case.
Notice the white wire on the inside (left) of the right pair of wires and the orange on the outside (right)?
Well the pair on the left has the orange on the inside (left) and the white on the outside (right).
That's what caused our short.
When we connected the whites together and the oranges together, this caused the bad white/orange wires to be mismatched with the good white/orange wires.
Does that make sense? It sure doesn't after I read this post.
A partial panoramic view of the layout.
Before making the complete panoramic view we discovered more trouble-shooting would be needed. Not sure what happened at the end of the video, but it doesn't sound good.
I remember what happened:
The problem we encountered was a bad connection on the elevated inside track.
That will be fixed when we finish the suitcase connections of the feeder wires to the bus wire next week.
Love this overhead view of the UP Dash-9 coming into Proviso Yard.
Notice how it snakes through the yard throat on the east end.
Dean Hatzis was under the weather tonight and unable to attend.
Jordan Osborn wrenched his back, so he couldn't make it tonight either.
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