Week 79

Week 79

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Missing Carlos Baez and Dean Hatzis today.

Carlos still on 2nd shift for a few more weeks.

Dean traveling to MI to attend a funeral of a good friend.

And here's the rest of the crew working on the railroad tonight...

 Ed Nelson helped with input for the Industrial Park and Western Avenue.

Then he went to work to finish laying the end of the terminal tracks for Union Station.

 Jordan Osborn was our "main man" at CCT (Central Control Tower).

We reviewed the layout of industries for the Industrial Park.

We have 5 main industries: Manufacturing, Warehouse, Energy, Lumber, and Paper.

We also have 5 main locations to spot different cars for industry delivery.

Now we need to decide which industries to keep and which to discard.

More to come...

Length: .06

Jordan Osborn was our engineer clearing the GP9 and cabooses from the mainline.

 I printed a picture of the building opposite Global 1. We matched up current building models with the actual buildings on the picture (shown in pink). We will also take these same prints to the Train Show on Valentine's Day and see if we can find another matching building or two.

Jordan Osborn barely visible at the controls and Ed Nelson hard at work at Union Station.

Length: .33

Commuter Train coming down the line. It derailed once before. But not this time.

 Jordan Osborn taking care of some administrative duties.

Nice virtual office.

 Some action shots of Ed Nelson working at the base of Union Station.

Our final farewell for the evening.

Nice work, men!

We accomplished much tonight!

Thanks for your hard work and faithful labor.

Friday, January 29, 2016

I got up early this morning and finished cutting and laying the track at the Union Station Terminal.
I still have to pound the nails (Track 5), but since it was early I didn't want to wake Jan with my pounding on the nail heads.

Looks good, doesn't it?

I'm going to have Dean Hatzis put on an extension then buy some bumpers at the February Train Show and then we'll begin building up Union Station above the tracks.