Week 326

 Sun, Oct. 25, 2020 thru Sat, Oct. 31, 2020

This week's goals:

1. Finish construction of Melrose Park Substation

2. Finish switching out transformer at California Ave. Metra Maintenance Facility.

3. Begin work on California Ave. Metra Maintenance Facility entrance off Western Ave.

Sun, Oct. 25, 2020

Special Guest:

Charlie Zielke

Charlie Zielke waves as he plays with trains.

Here's a video of Charlie in action...

Length: 00:00:32 sec.

Mon, Oct. 26, 2020

Working on the substation for the
power plant at Melrose Park

Video of making a transformer smaller

Length: 00:00:30 sec.

This is the smaller version of the transformer
with the middle cut out kitbashed for the
California Ave. Metra Maintenance Facility

Tue, Oct. 27, 2020

You can see why I wanted this transformer
(on the right) a bit smaller than the one on the left.

Section 1 Complete

Wed, Oct. 28, 2020

No train activity today.

Thu, Oct. 29, 2020

My plans for tonight's trains

Length: 00:00:19 sec.

Progress report...

Section 2 Complete

Working on Section 3

Directions weren't the best, but I figured it out.

Almost finished with Section 3.

Ready to install Section 3 on substation.

Section 3 Complete

Section 3 complete working on Section 4.

Fri, Oct. 30, 2020

Working on Section 5

I was very disappointed in the drawing for this part.
I didn't know which way to point the tabs and
I cut off the middle tab that was supposed to 
go in the middle hole.

Section 4 and 5 complete

Laying out all the parts to Section 6

First part of Section 6 up and ready for next part.

Step by step 2 seconds at a time...

Length: 00:00:31 sec.

Sat, Oct. 31, 2020

Step by step one frame at a time...

Still adding parts to Section 6

More parts to add.

Side view.

Section 6 complete

This is a shot of the substation platform where
all the sections will be put together.

Time for the chain-link fence.

I'll put the gate on this side.

Starting to put up the horizontal guard posts.
You can see the little brackets and the posts they will
fit over for the gate.

Goal Progress:

This week's goals:

1. Finish construction of Melrose Park Substation 

Progress: finishing up the chain-link fence around substation

2. Finish switching out transformer at California Ave. Metra Maintenance Facility. 

Progress: Done!

3. Begin work on California Ave. Metra Maintenance Facility entrance off Western Ave. 

Progress: Add to next week's goals.