Week 372

 Sun, Sep 12, 2021 thru Sat, Sep 18,2021

Count	Priority	Key
0	A	Top - This Week
0	B	Top - Next Week
2	C	Mid - This Month
15	D	Mid - Next Month
4	E	Low - This Year
3	F	Low - Next Year
37	G	Completed/Done!
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Project Priority List
Priority	Origination Date	Latest Update	Project Name	Project Description	Done! Date
C	5/11/2021	5/11/2021	West Chicago Station	Platform/lighting
C	7/1/2021	7/1/2021	Finish wiring Crossover 2.5	Will need to figure this out.
D	5/11/2021	5/11/2021	Finish Bridge/Underpass	Melrose Park downtown curbs, sidewalks, gutters, buildings
D	5/11/2021	5/11/2021	Winfield/Berkeley Station	Platform/lighting
D	5/11/2021	5/11/2021	Oak Park Marion Street Station	Lighting/kitbashing
D	5/11/2021	5/11/2021	Oak Park Marion Street Downtown	Streets, sidewalks, gutters
D	5/11/2021	5/11/2021	Redo Digitrax Sound Decoder	GP50 #53 w/Carlos
D	5/11/2021	5/11/2021	Install Sound Decoder	F40PH #138 w/Carlos
D	5/11/2021	5/11/2021	Building under construction	Chicago Downtown - cross beams, flooring, lights, facade
D	5/13/2021	5/13/2021	Ballast mainline through WeGo	Paint ballast first
D	5/18/2021	5/18/2021	Mainline ballasting	Between Crossover #2 and WeGo Diamonds - back tracks in front of WeGo downtown
D	6/5/2021	6/5/2021	Working on Locomotives	CNW SD40-2 #6928, UP SD50 #53, RTA F40PH #138	Finishing one by one
D	6/29/2021	6/29/2021	Wire up the lights for the cars on the PRB overpass	Will need to purchase the cars first
D	7/15/2021	7/15/2021	Adding cars with lights on PRB overpass	Need to redrill holes and purchase cars to complete project
D	8/23/2021	8/26/2021	Finish up details on the Industrial Park Extension	Finish landscaping and ballasting track
D	6/4/2021		Finish decoder installation	UP SD50 #53
D	5/29/2021		Finish writing procedures	3Rolling Stock Train Assignments

Sun, Sep 12, 2021

Today is the Midwest Train Show at the DuPage County Fairgrounds in Wheaton IL

I went with Rob Fair and Jordan Osborn.

We each were able to find some good deals and left quite happy.

Here are my good finds...

It looks like rolling stock won the prize at the Midwest Train Show this month.

Cost Breakdown:

Entry Fee: $7.00

Back Row left to right:

Coal Car: $5.00

Box Car: $5.00

Refrigerator Car: $12.00

Front Row left to right:

85' Flat Car: $6.00

Yellow CNW Hopper: $5.00

Green CNW Hopper: $5.00

Total Expenses: $45.00

I also found the spreadsheet on a flash drive that contains all my rolling stock inventory.

I need this spreadsheet to input the Maintenance Sheets which are used for the Rolling Stock log.

Later tonight I was able to put these cars through inspection

These cars passed inspection and will be ready for a TEST run tomorrow.

These two cars failed inspection and will need to be kept at the Workbench until inspection clears.

Mon, Sep 13, 2021

Train Day!

w/Rob Fair, Milt Feryance, and Jordan Osborn

6-8pm 2 hours

Here's what happened...

Our opening time for discussion...

Jordan is ready for a great night of trains.

An overview of tonight's activities so far...

Milt & Jordan...

Length: 00:00:30 sec.

And Rob...

Length: 00:00:13 sec.

Rob Fair putting a unit coal train together to head back to Melrose Park Power Plant.

As Rob works on the unit coal train, Jordan runs a test train.
These four cars passed inspection last night and ready for their test run tonight.

Lots of activity...running three train at the same time.

Length: 00:00:18 sec.

Finishing the mixed freight engineered by Milt F.

Length: 00:00:30 sec.

Rob Fair runs the unit coal train all the way into the Industrial Park siding.

Back at Powder River Basin trouble shooting some switching snags.

Jordan's test train coming around the corner.

And finally, Milt's mixed freight does a crossover as it heads to Proviso Yard CNW classification.

Same train entering track 4 Proviso Yard CNW Classification.

Returning Road Power to the Engine Facility shown here on the left side of the picture.

Good time had by all!

Tue, Sep 14, 2021

Tonight I put away the Unit Coal Train in the Melrose Park Power Plant Yard

Here's the paperwork that goes with the operations for tonight.

The finished product.

I also figured out how to store the Clip Boards and the UT4.

Here's how it would look when operating the Melrose Park Power Plant.

Tomorrow I'm going to try to classify the new cars that passed the Test Train yesterday into their assigned trains.

Wed, Sep 15, 2021

Train 5A Yard Classification

Length: 00:00:11 sec.

Correction: I'm not going to classify the entire yard, just Train 5A.

Pre-classification.
Most of Train 5A is on track 2
(where the brown box car leads the consist)

Post-classification
All cars in place.
The front two cars (brown one leading) are on track 5.
The rest of the consist cars 3-20 are on track 2
(Blue Great Northern 40' box car leading the way).

Thu, Sep 16, 2021

No Train Activity today.

Fri, Sep 17, 2021

No Train Activity today.

Sat, Sep 18, 2021

Wrapping up the week with some paperwork...

I took the notes (right sheet) and turned it into a working document (left sheet) for our Test Trains.

Here's where I'm working on the spreadsheet and getting the columns matched up properly.

We've been doing quite a bit of Railroad Operations so our project list has taken a bit of a hit as of late. There will be more time for that, for now we're getting down the operating procedures on paper and in practice.