Week 92

Week 92

Sunday, April 24, 2016 - Saturday, April 30, 2016

Sunday, April 24, 2016

Working each day on one thing.

Today I painted the "wire box" Dean Hatzis installed on Wednesday.

Check this out...

 First, I painted the box sky blue.

 Then I noticed it didn't  line up evenly on the corner.

See the slight gap on the top side?

Next, I inserted a spacer to bring the box level to the outside corner.

Do you see the spacer 1x2 just above the blue line?

More tomorrow...

Monday, April 25, 2016

I painted the rails tonight.
I laid the BEFORE/AFTER pictures side by side.
As you will see below:

AFTER

BEFORE

BEFORE

AFTER

BEFORE

AFTER

BEFORE

BEFORE

AFTER

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AFTER

AFTER

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Tonight I cleaned the rest of the mainline rails.

The rails are the left have been cleaned.
The rails on the right...not!

 Both cleaned.

 Ditto.

 Cleaned up to the road way.

Finished.

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

TRAIN DAY!
4-5:30pm

We made sure all the spray painting was done tonight since Dean was absent and that wouldn't be too good for him. Isn't that thoughtful of us?

Ed Nelson, Carlos Baez, Jordan Osborn, and me rounded out the train crew tonight.

Here's what we got accomplished with each man doing his part.

Ed Nelson back at the workbench working on the track bumpers.

Carlos Baez (Dr. Carlos) was redirected to troubleshooting tonight.
I had derail problems most evident on the well cars due to the improper elevation of the installed switch machines: way too high.
Later in the blog you'll notice his detailed work to solve the problem.

Jordan Osborn and I sifted "coal" into smaller granules.

WHAT'S ON YOUR WORKBENCH THIS WEEK?

 Well, I added my old laptop from work.
You can't make it out in the picture but it's on a website that converts scale units to actual units.

 Ed Nelson finishing up the track bumpers.
You can see the two bumpers completed tonight with the two he completed last week.
Nice work, Ed!

Carlos Baez making some finishing touches on his troubleshooting project.

 Ed Nelson went back to the mainline to insert missing rr ties.

Jordan Osborn posing for another picture.

Length: .40s
Watch as we tested the intermodal train going over the correctly mounted switch machines.
Thanks Dr. Carlos!

 Carlos Baez testing crossover #3.

Ed Nelson never stops working. Here he is installing missing ties.
Jordan Osborn is in the back ground running test trains over crossover #3.
(See Video above)

 I wanted to capture the detail behind Dr. Carlos' work.
Check out the jog in the wire (paper clip) he made after he installed the switch machine in a lower position to avoid hitting the underbody of the well cars when passing over.
The other piece of wire/paper clip is to keep the original wire from moving in the opening.

 A similar installation on the other crossover switch machine.
Excellent work, Dr. Carlos, excellent work!

Here's a bird's eye view of the adjusted switch machine.

 The same view different switch machine.

I missed painting some sections of track.
Carlos noticed some black ties were still visible.
Those all had to be spray painted brown.
Tomorrow I'll need to clean more track because I missed quite a bit.
Even on the mainline! UGH!