Sun, Feb 26, 2023 thru Sat, Mar 4, 2023
Sun, Feb 26, 2023
Mainly cleaning up tonight getting ready for tomorrow night...
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| What's on your workbench tonight? |
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| Main meeting table in good shape now. |
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| Also cleaning up the PRB table. This container will be used for the Metra Station Signage. |
Mon, Feb 27, 2023
Train Day!
w/Rob Fair & Jordan Osborn
6-8 pm 2 hrs.
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| Meet & Greet before our session starts. |
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| Rob's job tonight will be to switch the incoming WB Unit Coal Train 2A into the PRBEY. |
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| Making progress... |
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| While Jordan and I place the "Fast & Furious" vehicles along Sacramento Blvd. |
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| These are Jordan's vehicles. We'll use some, but not all of these on the "Fast & Furious" scene. |
1/3 of the way complete. Working on 2/3s to go.
Duration: 00:00.21 sec.
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| It's a busy time of day on the Interstates. |
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| One last move before Rob calls it a day. |
Finishing the switching at Powder River Basin East Yard (PRBEY)
Duration: 00:00.21 sec.
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| On to the next project: Ballasting the Yards |
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| Ballasting complete. Now it's time to glue it down. |
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| Using a pipette to apply the diluted glue. |
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| Before applying the glue a mist of water needs to be applied. |
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| Finally, Rob adds the coal loads to each car. |
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| New display of vehicles at the Metra Maintenance Facility. Most employees showed up today. |
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| A few more cars added to the Industrial Park buildings. |
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| More vehicles added to the Industrial Park. |
Tue, Feb 28, 2023
Video production for Monthly Layout Update Feb 2023
15 min.
Wed, Mar 1, 2023
Produced & Published Monthly Layout Update
Feb 2023
Editing 1.5 hrs.
Producing 3 min.
Uploading 17 min.
Total time spent: 2 hrs.
Thu, Mar 2, 2023
Doing some paperwork updating.
Fri, Mar 3, 2023
Parking Lot line painting...
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| Needs a bit more "No Parking" lines to be painted. |
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| I've started to pull off the tape. |
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| Time to start painting the parking lot lines at the Elmhurst station. |
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| This was an interesting project since the parking lot is curved. I think it turned out quite well. |
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| Tape is down. Paint is on. |
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| This shows the small north parking lot. |
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| What the tape looks like after it is removed. |
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| Waalaa! The new lines painted on the parking lot. You like? |
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| And the small north parking lot too. |
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| Another perspective. |
Friday night trains with my grandkids...
Henry, Ida, and Charlie!
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| Henry will be at Central Control Tower and engineer Commuter Train 1A using throttle DCS 51 with lead Power A1 F40PH 132 |
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| Ida is communicating to her customers the reason for the delays. She will be in the field and engineer Commuter Train 1B using throttle UT4 with lead Power A2 F40PH 151 |
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| Charlie will be in the field and engineer Commuter Train 1C using throttle UT6 with lead Power A3 F40PH 157 |
These next videos will try to capture some of the action from tonight's session...
All three trains running together...
Duration: 00:00.34sec.
Henry is..."Coming HOT, like a tortilla!"
Duration: 00:00.29sec.
Two trains running side by side...
Duration: 00:00.26sec.
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| Ida getting a closer look using the newly installed UP5. |
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| Charlie enjoying his train... |
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| Meanwhile, Henry oversees the operation from the Central Control Tower. |
Sat, Mar 4, 2023
We woke up this morning and decided we'd do some train education.
Henry and Ida will be the students this morning...
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| Henry & Ida studying the Rules & Regulations/ Job Descriptions coursework materials. |
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| Finishing up the exam. |
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| Passed with flying colors with Certificates in hand! |
Great job you two!
Congratulations Ida and Henry.
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