Sun, Sep 5, 2021 thru Sat, Sep 11, 2021
Sun, Sep 5, 2021
Another week of trains...
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| Setting up the tape for painting the gutters. |
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| Finished painting the sidewalks and gutters. |
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| Tape removed and ready to reinstall the buildings. |
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| Buildings reinstalled and ready for more details. |
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| Close up of the wrap around sidewalk. Hardly anyone will see this part since it's on the backside of the building away from viewing. |
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| Same thing with this sidewalk on the other warehouse building. No one will notice the sidewalk isn't large enough for the stupe. |
Mon, Sep 6, 2021
Adding a bit of detail to the Industrial Park...
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| Parked cars, trailers at the dock are just a couple of details added. |
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| I like the distant in the dark. Really makes the bill board stand out. |
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| Employee parking. Looks like everyone made it to work today. There's even a FedEx delivery van Ready to GO! |
Yes, the FedEx delivery van is to proper scale. The others are a bit too big.
After visiting the Crockett family in Chicago, I did one little project on the RR
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| I'm working on the details around the warehouse buildings on the Industrial Park extension. I painted the base of the mulch bed before I add the mulch and plant some bushes for landscaping. |
Tue, Sep 7, 2021
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| Pouring the glue in place. Getting ready to spread the mulch. |
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| Mulch all spread out and now we're ready for planting the bushes. |
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| And there you have it. All in a days work. |
Wed, Sep 8, 2021
Mainly cleaned up the rr room getting ready for tomorrow's Train Day!
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| Powder River Basin round table. |
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| Central Control Tower round table. |
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| Proviso Yard round table. |
All set for Train Day tomorrow.
Thu, Sep 9, 2021
Train Day!
Moved from Monday to Thursday due to Labor Day Holiday.
w/Rob Fair, Jordan Osborn and special guest, Milt Feryance
6-8pm 2 hrs.
And here's our players for tonight's activities...
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| Rob Fair will be working on the parking lot lines and weathering. |
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| Jordan Osborn will supervise the operations from his perch at the Central Control Tower. |
SPECIAL GUEST
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| Milt Feryance will be our engineer for tonight's trains. The Steam Excursion and a mixed freight, Train 5C. |
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| Milt begins the evening with the steam excursion train. Here he is preparing to connect to the end of the train, pull it out, and then do a run-around to the front of the train. |
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| Rob's progress on the parking lot lines... |
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| ...and weathering. |
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| We thought the lines were a bit too long, so Rob is trimming them down. |
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| As Milt continues lap 2 with the Excursion Train. |
Length: 00:00:25 sec.
End of the line. Putting away the Steam Excursion...
Length: 00:00:22 sec.
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| Rob Fair checking out the mixed freight heading west at Geneva station. |
with the AC6000
Length: 00:00:30 sec.
Length: 00:00:30 sec.
Fri, Sep 10, 2021
No train activity today.
Sat, Sep 11, 2021
Just some cleanup from operations on Thursday.
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| On Thursday we left Train B515C5D on the main line. Today, I ran another lap and put the train in Proviso Yard UP. |
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| The last part of the train stayed on the incoming Track 1 show by the arrow. |
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| The first part of the train was backed up into Track 2 as shown by the other arrow. |
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| Now it's time for paperwork. I'll take these papers upstairs and enter them into the computer. |
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| Here we are upstairs at the computer doing my data entry. |
And later today I had a very special guest...
Ida Zielke helping me at the workbench
Length: 00:00:25 sec.
More of Ida helping me power up the steam engine
Length: 00:00:21 sec.
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| I showed Ida what I have been working on... She was interested and started playing with the cars on location. |
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| Engineer Ida looks far off to Elmhurst to see her train waiting on Elmhurst station. |
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| Finally we reach our destination - Geneva Station. We left Chicago Terminal 23 minutes prior and made every stop except Kedzie Avenue. |
Ida didn't have enough energy for the return trip to Chicago so
I'll need to capture another crew for that assignment.
Thanks for teaching Ida that electrical!!!!!
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