Week 67

Week 67

I stopped at Menards this week to pick up some Suitcase Connectors.

I went to the West Chicago Menards and then checked at the Batavia Menards.

Both stores carry Suitcase Connectors aka Tap Splice

On to our Train Session...

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Welcome to our Week 67 Train Session

 Dean Hatzis and Ed Nelson begin the night troubleshooting some rolling stock.

This seems to be an ongoing maintenance project.

 Josh Jones and Jordan Osborn begin their session at the Union Station Terminal.

Their job tonight will be to calculate how much track and how many switches to purchase at the November 8th Train Show in Wheaton.

 Dean Hatzis and Ed Nelson move from rolling stock maintenance to track maintenance.

We had a problem with some buckling rails at the Proviso Yard Westbound Mainline.

 You can see the mainline track buckling better in this picture.

 Two work crews hard at work.

 Jordan Osborn brought a notebook to take train notes.

This will be used as a handy reference.

 Dean & Ed found some more track problems in the Metra/WeGo yard.

This is the best time to troubleshoot trackage.

Once we put the ballast in place it will take a bit more effort to fix any trackage problems.

 Whoa! Dean Hatzis at the controls. 

It won't be long and we'll be using DCC.

As soon as we get all the mainline feeder wires connected to the bus wire we'll be ready for DCC.

Josh Jones taking some final notes/calculations for November's Train Show purchases.

.34 seconds running time

One last look at UP Dash 9 coming down the mainline