Week 285

Sunday, January 12, 2020 thru Saturday, January 18, 2020

Key: NTA = No Train Activity for today.

Sunday, January 12, 2020

Had to move Train Day tomorrow to Train Day today!
Just like last week.
Rob Fair & Jordan Osborn
3-4:30pm 1.5 hours.

But first, Jordan and I stopped by the Midwest Train Show in Wheaton.
Here's what I found and what I spent:
Entry Fee: $7
5 trailers and 1 container @ $5 each: $30
5 pieces of Atlas Code 100 3' flex track: $20
Total Spent: $57

Rob Fair gets busy drilling holes for cars with lights.

Jordan shows his game face in recognition of the NFL playoffs happening today.

Remember that ball from last week?
After cutting it up and placing the pieces on the track, it appears it could use some touch ups.
See all the white showing through?

The first go around was painting the white parts bright green.
Too green we all thought after finishing step 1.

Step 2 was painting over the green with brown.
Much better.
Step 3 will be to reglue some of the loose pieces.
That should complete this project.

After drilling all the holes for the cars with lights, Rob begins connecting the wires.
But first we need to check the power supply.

After testing the power supply we found the 20V AC was too much. We tried the 9V AC and that was just right.
Next week we'll begin connecting the cars together in series and try to have this project finished by Train Show on Sun, Jan. 26.

If you look closely you can see a mark on Rob's forehead where he was wearing the headlamp (see previous picture).
It looks like a helmet mark so we did another tribute to NFL Playoffs with another "game face" pose.

Monday, January 13, 2020

NTA

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Clean up day!

The first thing I did tonight was to fix the corner grove.
Here's the finished product.
You like?

A little tour of the changes made tonight.
Part 1

Length: 00:00:32 sec.

Tour continues...
Part 2

Length: 00:00:28 sec.

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Train Day!
with Dean Hatzis & Jordan Osborn
4-5:30pm 1.5 hrs
Welcome back, Dean Hatzis!

After giving Dean the Grand Tour we got down to business.
Here's Jordan giving his typical greeting.

Dean will be working on the California Ave. Metra Maintenance building.
We're trying to figure out if we have enough windows and doors to do the job.

Time to call it a night.
Dean will take the mock up buildings and begin the project in the next few weeks.
Looking forward to seeing the end results.

Thursday, January 16, 2020

NTA

Friday, January 17, 2020

After subbing I was able to work on the RR

Working on the entrance to Global 2 on the west end of Proviso Yard.

I'll lay out the track and then cut out the cork and then secure the track to the cork.

Getting ready for the Train Show next Sunday afternoon.
Here's the Train Order Board for the Train Show.

I also made a dispatcher's log to coincide with this Train Order Board.

Saturday, January 18, 2020

NTA