Week 439

 Sun, Dec 25, 2022 thru Sat, Dec 31, 2022

Sun, Dec 25, 2022

Merry Christmas!

No Train Activity today.

Mon, Dec 26, 2022

Special Guests

Charlie & Henry Zielke at Central Control Tower

Charlie at the Controls

Duration: 00:00.17 sec.

A very short visit from Nana

Duration: 00:00.10 sec.

Charlie's Commuter Train 1A

Also wavy train track repair

Duration: 00:00.32 sec.

The first commuter train at the new & improved
West Line West Chicago Station

Henry in awe of the trains...

Taking his job very seriously.

Train Day!

w/Rob Fair & Jordan Osborn

6-8pm 2 hrs.

Jordan getting "caught up" on holiday activities...

Rob getting ready for tonight's session.

I'll be painting the fence tonight.

Here's the BEFORE photo...

Articulated Intermodal load move to repair shop

Duration: 00:00.26 sec.

Jordan is waving not saying, "Talk to the hand."

Jordan switching Proviso Yard CNW

Duration: 00:00.08 sec.

Adding car to Train 5D

Intermodal Train 2B derails again...

Duration: 00:00.22 sec.

Intermodal Mainline and Yard action

Duration: 00:00.23 sec.

Rob is executing a crossover to bring Intermodal
Train 2B into Global 1.

Intermodal Train 2B enters Global 1

"That's a wrap."

Duration: 00:00.20 sec.

Here's the AFTER photo.

I still need to finish this section. I need to wait for
the glue to set then I'll paint this later...

Another perspective.

Tue, Dec 27, 2022

No Train Activity Today...watching Grandkids...

Wed, Dec 28, 2022

As Selah slept, I had some "free" time to work on the train...

The other grandkids were with Nana at the theatre.

Glue has set, now it's time to paint.
We'll use this photo as our BEFORE shot.

Painting finished.
AFTER shot.

I forgot to take a picture, but I did add a yellow safety
line on the near platform by the station.
(I went back downstairs to take the picture...see below)

This care was taken out of service a few Sundays
ago when Chris & Josiah Andrews were here.
Josiah noticed there was no spring in the coupler.

I tried to install a new spring, but it sprung out.
I decided to install a whole new coupler.

I put the car back in place in Train 5A and next time
we run this train, I will include the paperwork on this
repair and report the results after the run.

Here's a picture of the station with the yellow safety
line in place.

Thu, Dec 29, 2022

I had about 45 minutes to work on the RR tonight...

I decided to work on the articulated 5-car well cars to see if I could get them working again...

First Stop: Workbench
Here's the 3-ring binder where I keep all the notes
on every locomotive/rolling stock.

I ended up replacing all the plastic wheels sets with metal wheels sets.

Most wheels sets are 33" - these are 36".

I took the set of cars and ran them by hand around
the layout - 1 full lap. It ran ok by itself.

Next Stop: Run a train with this unit set included.

Fri, Dec 30, 2022

Jan and I ran errands today and one of the stops that I was allowed to make was...

B&G Hobby World

Here's what I purchased...

I bought two decoders for $23.
One building part for Chicago Terminal construction
for $9.99. Tax $3.91 and tip $0.10. Total outlay $60.00

Video recap and getting ready for Monday's Train Day

Duration: 00:00.28 sec.

Sat, Dec 31, 2022

Producing Monthly Layout Update today...

Click here to view Dec 2022 Layout Update