Week 321

 Sun, Sep. 20, 2020 thru Sat, Sep. 26, 2020

This week's goals:

1. Finish putting piles into files (notebooks).

2. Paint "sky" on mirrors over West Chicago

3. Trouble shoot and solve traffic light display in downtown Chicago

4. Repair damaged car lights in downtown Chicago

Sun, Sep. 20, 2020

Mon, Sep. 21, 2020

I got up a bit early today and did some work on Goal #1

Getting closer, but still a ways to go.

Train Day!

w/ Rob Fair 6-8pm 2 hrs.

and Jordan Osborn 7:30-8pm 1/2 hr.

We started off trying to figure out what happened to the green traffic lights.

Length: 00:00:18 sec.

Another video of the traffic lights...

Length: 00:00:22 sec.

You can see one set of green lights are on...

This is over one block east and all are in working order.

Back to the original location. Still not working.

Let's tackle Goal #4.
This is the infamous "Jack Fisher" car he "pulled out"
inadvertently disconnected the wire that powered the lights.

With the power "on" we can see the lights are not working.

With Rob Fair supervising the operation, we now
can see he has fixed the problem.

Goal #4 Complete!

Now on top the next trouble-shooting project.
Goal #3.
Trying to figure out why the green lights are working.

I was stirring the paint and thought
this was an interesting perspective.

While Rob is trouble-shooting the traffic lights,
I will paint the sky.

Trying to capture the "BEFORE" picture.

And now, the AFTER picture.

Back to Rob working in the guts of the city.

Hey, who dat?
It's our buddy, Jordan Osborn who came to "peek in" 
on our progress tonight.

Peace Out, my man!

Tue, Sep. 22, 2020

No train activity tonight.

Wed, Sep. 23, 2020

Still working on Goal #1...

Thu, Sep. 24, 2020

We are going to finish this tonight!

OK, here's the plan.
See if you can spot what changes in the next few pictures...

What changed? The office supplies...
Pencils, Pens, tape, scissors, three-hole punch...gone!

What changed?
3 ring binders and calendars...gone!

What changed?
2 sets of binders, CCT notebooks...gone!

Goal #1 Complete.
Piles into files (three ring binders) DONE!

This is where the 3-ring binders went after
the dining room table.

Looks like this could be another goal in the
not-to-distant future.

Final resting place for most of the binders.

I'll keep the calendars with receipts under the printer.

Fri, Sep. 25, 2020

Jordan Osborn stopped by for about an hour today...

Jordan Osborn getting acquainted with our new binders.

We also ran a 30 car train.
Unfortunately we found problems with the second
C40-8 locomotive derailing at Elmhurst.

We will tackle that little problem on Monday with Rob Fair

during our Train Day!

Sat, Sep. 26, 2020

Here's another landing place for other 3-ring binders.
These are the ones I'll use to check and record rolling stock records.