Week 308

Sunday, June 21, 2020 thru Saturday, June 27, 2020

This Week's Goal:
To install the four UP5s into the layout fascia board in 4 power districts:
PRB (Powder River Basin)
SPD (South Power District)
NPD (North Power District)
EPD (East Power District)

Sunday, June 21, 2020

Here's the markings for the PRB.

This one is near California Ave. in the SPD.

Center of Proviso Yard in the NPD.

And finally at the Coal Power Plant in the EPD.

Monday, June 22, 2020

TRAIN DAY!

w/Rob Fair and Jordan Osborn

6-8pm 2 hrs.

Special Guest: Josiah Crockett

Rob Fair started out at the workbench attaching wires to the UP5s.

As we worked on the layout, Josiah played with his trains.

Notching out the PRB hole for the UP5.

Preparing for the UP5 in the SPD.

Proviso Yard...

Coal Power Plant.

Rob finishes up the soldering of the common leads on each UP5.

Making progress and preparing for installation.
SPD

Proviso Yard.

Coal Power  Plant.

Installing our last UP5 panel.

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Actually we only installed 3 of the 4 last night.
This one needs two sections cut out so we ran out of time yesterday.
Today we'll make time.

SPD at California Avenue.

NPD at Proviso Yard.

EPD at Coal Power Plant.

Here you can see the second piece of wood ready for removal.

Josiah sees it.
Did you?

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

NTA

Thursday, June 25, 2020

NTA

Friday, June 26, 2020

Now to wire up the UP5.
First we need to connect the common feeder wires.

This shows the progress.
It was very tedious work.

Saturday, July 27, 2020

Connecting Common Feeders to UP5s

Length: 00:00:35 sec.

Probably not worth the look, very hard to see...

Length: 00:00:29 sec.

Cleaning up the stuff from underneath.

An installed UP5 panel.
No Flash

Same picture.
With Flash

More cleanup.

Found mold so I'm getting ready to wash the floor with bleach water.

Getting closer.

Almost cleared.

GOAL update:

Almost completed except for the Powder River Basin.

See next week for GOAL adjustment.