Week 130

Week 130

Sunday, January 22, 2017 thru Saturday, January 28, 2017

Sunday, January 22, 2017

Jordan and I went to B&G Train World Hobby Store in Elgin IL to purchase a few items that we need to proceed.

Here's a picture of what we brought home.

Wall mount lamps to finish off the "skinny" Western Avenue building.
Plastic pieces for curbs and cutters.
Stone block walls for the Western Avenue underpass.

I couldn't wait to install the wall-mount lamps.
One is installed above the roof access door, the other is installed above door by the back loading dock.

Here's the outside view of the wall-mounted lamp above the door near the back loading dock.

Monday, January 23, 2017

Our session tonight was from 5:30-7pm.

Rob Fair working on installing the new speakers on the GE AC6000.

The two amigos (Josh Jones & Jordan Osborn) getting back together again.

Josh Jones painting the trim work for the station platforms.

Meanwhile, back at the workbench, Rob Fair continues to reassemble the AC6000 with new speakers.

Moving on to the next project...here is Josh Jones now painting the stone wall white.

Whah lah! The finished product.
Let's take another picture without the bright light in the background.

There, that's much better.
Nice work, Josh!

Oh, oh. this doesn't look good.
The last picture looked just about finished.
Now this looks like we're going in the opposite direction.
Must have hit a glitch.

As they guys kept busy on their projects, I did some chain link fence work.
The west end is nearly complete.

Tuesday, January 24, 2017
I was working on the railraod a bit tonight.

Here's a quick update...

Check out the progress on the chain link fence.

Also, getting closer on the "skinny" Western Avenue building.

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

TRAIN DAY!

Working only 1 hour (from 4-5pm) for six weeks. 

Carlos, Dean, & Curt all attend a Conflict Resolution class at church tonight. 

So...we gotta quit early so we can eat dinner and get to church on time.

Here is the crew waiving to Carlos who couldn't make it tonight.
Carlos did a very good thing and visited a prayer meeting at church tonight.
Left to right: Ed Nelson, Dean Hatzis, & Jordan Osborn

And here's what we did tonight...

Dean Hatzis & Ed Nelson (with Jordan Osborn checking in) apply the first piece of trim work.

Dean Hatzis workiing with Ed Nelson installing the first pieces of trim to the layout.

Making progress...

This was accomplished with less than an hour to work with.
We'll pick it up from here next week.

Saturday, January 28, 2017

On our TRAIN DAY this past Wednesday we discussed some project work that needs attention before our next session.

Here's a quick recap of that discussion...in pictures.

See the set of windows facing up?
Well the windows facing down on the opposite wall had no window frames.
I'm gluing in some black felt paper to cover those window openings.

I realize this is a very weird shot.
The front wall of the "skinny" building is sitting flat on the corner of the layout.
Why? So I could mount the wall mounted lamps.
The guys decided we needed some over-the-door-wall-mount-lamps for the front of the building.