Week 146

Week 146

Sunday, May 14, 2017 thru Saturday, May 20, 2017

Monday, May 15, 2017

Train Night!

Our crew tonight was Rob Fair, Jordan Osborn and me.

We began at 5:30pm and worked until about 7:15pm.

Here's what we accomplished...

Rob Fair finishes installing the railings at Kedzie Avenue Station.

Putting on his best face is our main man Jordan Osborn.

I found a can of Testor's Dull Coat finish spray paint.

Nice work, Rob, on the finished railings.

Close up.

I sprayed the flat dull coat black spray paint to seal the grout.
It naturally weathered the grout, which I didn't expect at all.
A very nice "mistake".

Rob Fair began painting the middle platform station railings.

Rob Fair also finished the vertical posts and painting the railings at Kedzie Avenue Station.

Here are the center platform stairwell railings.

Another view for the other direction.

And another further down the tracks.

Back to the platform at Geneva Station.
The flat dull coat actually made the dark black grout look very weathered.
I was surprised once again.
I like when that happens!

Jordan Osborn was chillin' tonight.

I switched out the 1k resistors to 330 resistors.
Not sure if you can tell, but these are a bit brighter.
I think we'll go with this as to not blind the audience with brilliance.

Rob Fair finishing up the evening.
Nice work men!

Wednesday, May 17, 2017
TRAIN DAY!

Ed Nelson: 3:45-5:15pm (1.5)
Dean Hatzis: 4-5:15pm (1.25)
Curt Berg & Jordan Osborn: 3:45-6pm (2.25)

Some intricate work done today.

Ed Nelson installs the wood frame on the center platform.

Dean Hatzis shows off his handy work this week.
He added extensions to the base of the signal bridges to his right.

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Dean Hatzis and Ed Nelson working on  clearance issues.

Some of Dean's weathering of the railings.

More clearance issues especially with the well cars.
We decided we'll raise the rails to solve this problem.

Because of the well car issues we ran them around the track and found some other issues that needed some attention.