Week 147

Week 147

Sunday, May 21, 2017 thru Saturday, May 27, 2017

Monday, May 22, 2017

Train Night!

Rob Fair came a little early stayed until 8pm (2 hours)

Jordan Osborn and Josh Jones came a bit late 6:30pm and stayed until 8pm (1.5 hrs.)

Here's what we did...

As I was running the intermodal train I noticed it derailed every time at the same location same car.

I had Rob Fair take a closer look.

Rob Fair taking a close look at the track.

Here Rob takes a check of the track dimensions using a NMRA track gauge.

 Bottom line?

We couldn't find out what caused the car to jump up and come down and derail.

So what did we do?

We turned the 5 car unit back to front and front to back.

We did a test run and everything ran just fine.

Go figure.

Here we have Jordan Osborn and Josh Jones...
now that I think about it, what were they doing?
By the look on Jordan's face, he's not sure either.

After Rob Fair took care of the intermodal cars, he began working on the Kedzie Avenue station roof sign.
You'll see his work later in today's blog...

Jordan Osborn and Josh Jones preparing for their project.
More to come...

These directional signs were over by Kedzie Avenue but it seemed too busy and out of the way.
I re-positioned these closer to Command Central Station.

Jordan Osborn and Josh Jones keeping their project going.
What they did tonight was take the individual prototype pictures from the big binder and put them with the hanging project clip board for each project section.
Here they are working on Global 1 and Western Avenue Buildup.

As promised earlier, here is the finished product Rob Fair was working on tonight.
Instead of gluing the sign directly on the roof he added the framework more like the prototype.
I'll take a picture of the prototype and put it side by side with the picture of the model.

Here's the rear view of the same sign shown above.

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Here are the side to side pictures of what I promised to show you yesterday.
It's really hard to see the details in the sign, but they're there!
Seriously!

Wednesday, May 24, 2017
TRAIN DAY!

Present: Ed & Jordan (1.5) Curt (1.25) Carlos & Dean (1)

We found some very serious issues with the outside curve at Kedzie Avenue switch to Powder River Basin. We worked the entire time on the problem.

What was the problem?

I'll tell you at the end of today's blog.

Here's the location of the happenings for today's session.

Checking clearance for the water shed and the commuter cars on both sides.

Now trying to figure out why the cars derail at the switch at Kedzie Avenue.

Here's my view on the monitor of the guys working in the South Power District.

Here's my view looking directly at the same location.

Getting the job done.

So what was the problem?

It was the trucks/wheels on two of the Walthers Well Cars.
We "retired" those two cars until further enhancements can be made.

One possible solution:

When I go to the Train Show on Sunday, June 11th I'm going to pick up two packs of wheel sets.
One pack of 33" wheels and one  pack of 36" wheels.

Hopefully we won't see this problem ever again.