Week 306

Sunday, June 7, 2020 thru Saturday, June 13, 2020

GOAL:

Didn't make last week's goal but maybe this week: Finish California Avenue Metra Maintenance Shop Parking Lot lights.

Sunday, June 7, 2020

No Train Activity today.

Monday, June 8, 2020

Train Day with Jordan Osborn

6-7:15pm 1.25 hrs.

After cleaning the tracks last week we thought we better clean the wheels on the locomotives.
I already cleaned the UP locomotives.

Now it's time to finish off the CNW locomotives.
Some of these date back more the 20 years.

Jordan Osborn came up with a great idea to clean the wheels on the Amtrak locomotive.
We got out one of our old transformers and wired up a test track and used that to clean the wheels.

One more look at the engines waiting or already cleaned.

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

No Train Activity today.

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Today I'm going to begin wiring up the Parking Lot Lights.
I began with #8 and will test each one as I go to #1.

Thursday, June 11, 2020

No Train Activity Today.

Friday, June 12, 2020

Here is what it looks like underneath.
Lots of hanging wires.

First I wired up the red to orange and black to white.
The light didn't go on.

Then I switched the red to white and the black to red and the light went on!
LED are tricky that way. They need the red to go to (+) and the black to go to (-).

SUCCESS!
#8 is on and working nicely.
This pic is taken with FLASH.

Same pictures without the FLASH.

Later in the day I was able to put up a "canopy" of wires to attach the wires of the other light poles.

Another picture of the wires switched to connect the (+) and (-) properly.

After more meticulous wiring I finally finished the parking lot lights.
Dock-side view.

Office-side view.

I really like the affect.

Saturday, June 13, 2020

No train activity today.