Week 268

Sunday, September 15, 2019 thru Saturday, September 21, 2019

Sunday, September 15, 2019

NTA

Monday, September 16, 2019

Train Day!

Rob Fair came over to work on the RR from 6-8pm (2 hrs.)

We began the night under Chicago Downtown.
Rob Fair will cover up all exposed ends with liquid electric tape.

But first, we need to rewire the traffic signals to be switched on/off when the other city lights are off.

The last half hour we prepared the two engine facilities for power by drilling holes for the feeder wires.

Here are the holes in line at the UP Engine Facility.

Rob Fair drills the feeder wire holes at CNW Engine Facility.

These line up quite nicely.

Back at Chicago Downtown.
If you look closely you can see Rob Fair's work for the night.

All the exposed ends should be protected now by the liquid electrical tape.

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

NTA

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Train Day!

w/Jordan Osborn (4-5pm 1 hr.)

My goal tonight is to get started on wiring up the tracks in both engine facilities.
Here's the starting point.
No wires in any of the holes on top of the number mounts.

Jordan Osborn in his jovial mood.

Here are the labels in place.

Jordan Osborn brought over a gift from his dad tonight.
He sent 12 LED lamps. Here you can see three of them we plan to use in the high rises to see how they look.

Jordan Osborn moving his cars around to different locations on the layout.

I'm working toward my goal.
With the labels now in place I can begin the wiring.
You can see in this photo I already completed tracks 1-3 for the UP Engine Facility.

Thursday, September 19, 2019

I worked a few minutes tonight on the wiring.
The UP Engine Facility is finished.
I have tracks 1 and 6 started on the UP side.

Friday, September 20, 2019

All the wires are connected to the switch plates on the facia.

Now I need to connect the wires to the tracks at the CNW Engine Facility.

I put the colors in alphabetical order to make sure they match up on the switch panel.
BLUE, BLACK, GREEN, RED, WHITE, YELLOW

Here's a bitter look at all six colors.

And this is what it looks like underneath the table for the CNW Engine Facility.

And the underneath the table view of the UP Engine Facility.

This is a view of the wires coming into the switch panel.

The final steps in splitting up the unit coal train at Proviso Yard.

Length: 00:00:17 sec.

Once the wiring is complete, I put the engines back in place.

Engine placement at the UP Engine Facility.

I finished off the day with train operations.
I split the Unit Coal train and put most on the CNW yard track and the rest on the UP yard track.

The Metra is waiting at the Geneva station to return to Chicago.

My Train Order Board shows the BLUE assignments are complete.
Now I'm ready for the RED assignments.

One more bird's eye view of the UP Engine Facility.

Saturday, September 21, 2019

I reported for train duty at Kuipers Farmview RR this morning and this is the view that greeted me when I arrived.

When I got home after working until 3pm at Kuipers Jan gave me this in the mail.
It was my lucky day!
TRAINS magazine also came in the mail.
Yes, it was my lucky day!