Week 148

Week 148

Sunday, May 28, 2017 thru Saturday, June 3, 2017

Monday, May 29, 2017
Happy Memorial Day!
We also had a Train Day today!

Rob Fair and Jordan Osborn stopped by for a couple of hours at 2pm today.
Thanks men!

Here's what we did...

Rob Fair started out at the sign shop making the backing for another Kedzie Avenue Station sign.

Jordan Osborn picked up some clipboards for our Task Clip Board Projects.
Actually his mom, Chrissa, found a great deal on Amazon.com.

After Rob finished the Kedzie Avenue sign, he started work on painting the stairs for the Center Platform at Kedzie Avenue.

The left picture is the "BEFORE" shot.
The right picture is the "AFTER" shot.

Here are some of the clipboards in place.
The ones you see (l. to r.) are UP Global 2, Proviso Yard West, UP Engine Terminal, CNW Engine Terminal, Berkeley/Wheaton Metra Station and the far side facing the opposite direction is Oak Park/Lombard Metra Station.

More clipboards. The foreground is Melrose Park/College Avenue Metra Station.

Rob Fair painting the concrete for the Western Avenue sidewalks.

Before Jordan ran the Track Cleaning Car he had to park the intermodal cars which were already online.

Jordan Osborn taking notes at CCT (Central Control Tower).

I liked this picture of the locomotive coming to connect with the track cleaning car and the camera car.
You can also see the same thing in the screen Jordan is watching.
It's a live shot.

 We had a little problem with the track cleaning car jumping a switch at Gruesome Casket.
I'll see if the Train Guys on Wednesday can take another look.

Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Last Day of May
also TRAIN DAY!

But where is everyone?

Carlos: working on a home project that needs to get done by July 4th. Big job!
Dean: Working on a home project that needs to get done by tonight!
Ed: No show. Where are you, Ed?
Jordan: Planning on coming by with Josh tomorrow.

So what am I going to do?

Here's what I did...

This afternoon, Rob Fair, dropped off some wire and some instructions for tonight's activities.

These next few pictures are from underneath the Geneva North Platform lighting.

So what I had to do, was to connect the blue wires from the copper strip to the blue wires coming from the tube.
Same with red to red.
The tube in the upper right corner leads to the light on the west end of the platform.

This next picture shows the wires already connected...

These are the Geneva station lights that were on the dismantled center platform and now mounted on the north platform.
This tube goes to the middle light on the platform.

Here are the wires that need to be connected.

And finally, this tube leads to the light at the east end of the platform.

And again, the illustration which shows which wires need a jumper shown with white lines.

I only connected the west lights.

But when I activated the lights only one of the two lights went on! UGH!

Hopefully I'll get some time this weekend to try to solder the connections so this won't happen again.

One can only hope!

Until next time.

Happy RRing.