Week 233

Week 233

Sunday, January 13, 2019 thru Saturday, January 19, 2019

Sunday, January 13, 2019

Train Show!

DuPage Co. Fairgrounds, Wheaton IL

I had a fun time and found some great finds.

Here's what I purchased:
2 piggy back semi-trailers $3x2=$6
1 hopper & 1 box car $15 total
1 blinking red LED $.25
1 Athearn Railbox $20
1 C44-9 UP $80
1 box Intermountain metal wheels sets $65
Entry Fee $7
Total: $193.25

The yellow sheet is a work order for next month's train show.

The owner of Windy City LED is going to solder wires to a chip board so I can install EOT device.

I took some time to inspect the three new cars I bought at the train show today.

Here they are on the test track ready to run the mainlines to check them for their performance.

What's on your workbench this week?

I added three tracks where the incline test track used to be.
Now I can have the next cars up and ready for inspection instead of laying them on the table in front of the keyboard.

Monday, January 14, 2019

Train Day!

6:15-7:45pm 1.5 hrs.

w/ Jordan Osborn

New C44-9 Locomotive bought at Train show yesterday.
Turns out it runs pretty poorly.
I will need to do a major overhaul in the repair shop.

Jordan Osborn checking over the paperwork for tonight.

We just added another locomotive to our DCC roster!
Decoder included!

Length: 00:00:07 sec.

Jordan Osborn very excited about finding another engine with DCC decoder inside.
In fact, it's one of his favorites - the CNW SD40-2 with Sound!

Here it is!
We thought it may be DCC equipped, but had no idea it actually included a decoder.
We quickly programmed it in and ran the test train.
See video a little later in this blog to watch and hear it in action.

Here's a still shot of the Test Train.

And here's a video of that same train.

Length: 00:00:26 sec.

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

No train activity today.

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Train Day!

4-5:30pm 1.5 hrs Dean Hatzis

4:15-5pm 1.25 hrs. Jordan Osborn

After we finished our Train Day! greetings, we got to work...

Our goal tonight is to cut out the street levels for Milwaukee Ave. and W Fulton St.

Dean Hatzis in action...

Length: 00:00:18 sec.

Dean Hatzis already cut out the front section of the intersection of Milwaukee Ave. and W. Fulton St. in downtown Chicago.

Another action video of our activities tonight...
pulling out the section on this side of the tracks.

Length: 00:00:18 sec.

Here you can see Dean Hatzis lifting out the other section across the tracks.

Pulling out the cut out on the other side of the tracks:

Length: 00:00:25 sec.

Our goal for tonight is completed.
Both sections cut out with the sections lifted out.

Same photo different perspective.

Thursday, January 17, 2019

No train activity today.

Friday, January 18, 2019

I had the day off today, so I worked quite a bit on the RR:

I decided to do some work on the Kedzie Avenue East.

Here the top layer is installed and glued down.

And now for some finishing touches.
The partial wall...

Saturday, January 19, 2019
Continued to work on Kedzie Avenue East, but first the support legs under Lake Street.

Here's the support leg with top attachment ready for installation.

Installed.
The vertical leg on the right will come out and the horizontal cross beam will be moved over.
Not quite sure how we'll do the move, but when Dean comes on Wednesday we'll figure it out. 

Extended the partial wall all the way to the end of the station platform
I'll try to make progress on the filler and the top asphalt layer for the station platform tomorrow.