Week 319

 Sunday, September 6, 2020 thru Saturday, September 12, 2020

This week's Goals

#1. Finish car light Chicago North (from Week 316)

#2. Add landscaping details to grasslands in SPD

#3. Begin detail work on West Power District (WPD) starting at West Chicago

Sunday, September 6, 2020

SPECIAL GUESTS:

Mabel, Henry, Ida, and Charlie stopped by today and played trains with me.

Global 1 with lots of semi trucks.

Henry is going to run a train today.
He's going to pick the locomotive and the cars.

He chose the C44-9 Union Pacific.

Henry's Train

Length: 00:00:25 sec.

Mabel gets up close and personal with the train.

Ida and Charlie find work to do at the workbench.

Monday, September 7, 2020

Happy Labor Day!

Before everyone comes over today I'll get a few things done on the RR...

Today I'm going to add grass and ground cover.

SPECIAL GUEST:

Josiah was up early this morning (7:30am)
so guess what we did?

Josiah helped me secure the grass and ground cover. 
You like?

And now, it's time for...

Train Day!

with Rob Fair (6-8pm 2 hrs.)

and Jordan Osborn (6-7:30pm 1.5 hrs.)

Rob Fair begins the evening at the workbench.
Checking the power needed to light up the cars.
No need for resistors, 9v will do it.

Next project for Rob
will be to add foliage to the ground cover.

This will add more color to a pretty drab area.

I was working under the table on the car lights
when Jordan came down and gave his typical greeting.

In this picture you can see the two power cables
on the left. You can also see the car light cables
coming down through the table.

I've got the first three cars lit up.

Checking on Rob's progress.
Looking good...

Rob also added some more trees.

Jordan's been working hard updating rosters,
inventory, and notes.

Rob Fair drilling the holes for each tree.

Stepping back to see how it looks. 
Definitely taking shape.

Bright lights from the cars in Chicago North.

The truck lights are dim. Look down the street to the
right behind the first car at the crosswalk.
I plan on removing those wires and giving 
those lights a little more "juice".

For now, let's say Goal #1 is complete.

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

No train activity today.

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

I had about 30 minutes to work on the RR tonight.

Here's what I did...

After Monday's session, I said, "...giving 
those lights a little more "juice". Well, I did. I took
them off the 9v power source and connected the
wires to a 12v power source. The picture 
doesn't do justice, but the lights are brighter.

Drone view of the truck with brighter lights.

Back view of same truck.
Again, not as evident in the picture as in real life.

You'll just need to come in person to see the difference.

Thursday, September 10, 2020

I really need to take some to organize the paperwork.

So here we go...

Bringing the piles upstairs to make into smaller piles.

Friday, September 11, 2020

Still working on the paperwork...

Making progress.

My different piles are as follows:
Historical
Rolling Stock
Structures
Electronics
Misc.
Receipts
DCC

Saturday, September 12, 2020

No train activity today.