Week 270

Sunday, September 29, 2019 thru Saturday, October 5, 2019

Sunday, September 29, 2019

NTA
Family time and Bears Game at 3:25pm

Monday, September 30, 2019

Train Day!

Rob Fair with special guest, Faith Fair.

Also Jordan Osborn working from 6-7:30pm 1.5 hours.

My favorite "Can you see?" perspective.
Can you see Faith?

Rob Fair working on the GE AC6000 adding couplers.
Jordan Osborn running Train Simulator game.

Close up of Rob Fair hard at work.

In the meantime, Faith finds ways to build her own empire.

Back at the workbench watching Rob put a spring in the GE AC6000 coupler.

Jordan Osborn checking out specs on the Train Simulator

Jordan Osborn playing the Train Simulator game.
Rob Fair working on the GE AC6000
and Faith Fair checking out the sights.

Length: 00:00:21 sec.

Watching the Intermodal heading west bound through Proviso Yard and beyond.

Length: 00:00:30 sec.

Another view of the west bound Intermodal traveling through Proviso Yard.
Don't be afraid of the very mean look from Jordan Osborn...he's just messing around.

Length: 00:00:27 sec.

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

NTA

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Train Day!
w/Cameron Passaglia from 4-5:30pm 1.5 hrs.

First things first.
Cam Passaglia got the Train Simulator game up and running.

We'll be working under Chicago Downtown today.
We have two faulty signals to replace so we'll work on separating the connected wires underneath today.

Here is Cam hard at work.

Thursday, October 3, 2019

Jan had Bible study tonight so I worked about 1.5 hours on the new traffic signals under Chicago downtown.

Here are the wires for the replacement traffic light with the wires all connected and soldered together.
The black is the liquid to keep them insulated.

Out with the OLD...

Length: 00:00:28 sec.

...In with the NEW.

Length: 00:00:28 sec.

Here's all the wiring ready for solder.
The alligator clips keeps the wires in place until we're ready to solder them together.

Final Product

Length: 00:00:16 sec.

Friday, October 4, 2019

NTA

Saturday, October 5, 2019

NTA