Sun, Nov 19, 2023 thru Sat, Nov 25, 2023
Sun, Nov 19, 2023
After moving out the commuter train for Monday's Train Day...
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| Commuter Train 1C ready for WB departure from Chicago Terminal. |
I decided it was about time to start working on the CNW Engine Facilities platforms...
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| Getting started... |
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| Making progress... |
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| That's enough for tonight. |
Mon, Nov 20, 2023
Train Day!
w/Rob Fair 6-8pm 2 hrs.
Jordan Osborn 6-7:30pm 1.5 hrs.
Here's what we did...
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| Rob Fair taking out the EB Unit Coal Train from Powder River Basin bound for the Melrose Park Power Plant |
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| Immediate crossover before Signal #2 to continue on its EB journey |
Unit Coal Train on Elevated Track EB
to view YouTube Video
Duration: 00:30 sec.
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| Meanwhile... Jordan and I run the WB Commuter Train 1C on the West Line bound for Geneva |
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| Rob has arrived at the Melrose Park Power Plant and begins to switch the train into the Power Plant yard. |
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| Jordan peers out from under the BNSF cap. |
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| Rob and I take the Commuter Train 1C EB back to Chicago Terminal. |
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| Commuter Train 1C arriving at Chicago Terminal safe and sound. Some minor glitches along the way but all in all, not too bad. |
Tue, Nov 21, 2023
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| I stopped by ACE today and bought some super glue. I'm out and always could use a bit more. |
Wed, Nov 22, 2023
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| Running 1960s Train 3A with Power B3 UP SD40-2 2056 3571 |
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| Running WB passed Geneva |
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| Coming down the heart of Proviso Yard |
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| Waiting for next lap at the Lap Counter Location which is Washington Street in West Chicago. |
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| Later tonight, I started to reconcile these two report. The top report shows each train run with dates. The bottom sheets shows who was assigned those runs. |
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| This is how much time I spent on this project today. |
Thu, Nov 23, 2023
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| Same project another day. |
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| I was able to reconcile each report. Now I need to update the spreadsheet. |
More to come...
Fri, Nov 24, 2023
Finished running 1960s Train 3A...
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| Parking the WB 1960s Train 3A into PYCNW EB Track 2. |
This train will be ready to head EB on its next Train Order Board assignment.
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| ...with Power B3 back in place at the UP Engine Facility. |
Also worked on Train Cars in Consist - Conductor Paperwork
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| BEFORE Completed worksheet. |
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| AFTER Made some changes...ready for next run. |
Sat, Nov 25, 2023
Lots of work on the CNW Engine Facility Platform patterns
and lots of reconciliation in reporting...
Check this out...
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| More pattern cutouts for CNW Engine Facility |
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| Finishing up tracks 4 & 5. |
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| There you go. All set! |
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| I also decided to extend the platforms into the buildings. |
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| Another view of the CNW Engine Facility |
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| And just because I was looking...here's another shot of the UP Engine Facility. Nice! |
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| In this report you can see how many Minutes/Hours each locomotive has run since 2021. |
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| This report shows how many Minutes/Hours each Engineer has run on the RR since 2021. |
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| This report shows how recent Metra locomotives and any Switcher was run and what train it was connected. |
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| Same type of report, but this time it's all the UP locomotives. |
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| Most recent runs for the CNW locomotives with the trains connected to each locomotive. |
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| Here's my reconciliation to the report below (by date) and this report by locomotive. |
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| I reconciled this report with the one above to figure out the proper laps run for each locomotive and train connected to that locomotive. |
This was a very intense assignment!
When I finished I was off by 3.5 laps.
I looked it up, found the mistake, and had a successful result.
YES!
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