Sun, May 19, 2024 thru Sat, May 25, 2024
Sun, May 19, 2024
Finished Weekly Basement Layout Update Video
Also prepared trains for tomorrow's operating session...
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| I had two of these trains on the mainline, but now they are back in place on Tracks 6 & 7. |
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| These two trains are staged at the West Chicago Yards. They will be the first two trains out of Geneva going EB tomorrow night. |
Mon, May 20, 2024
Train Day!
w/Rob Fair
Jordan Osborn
Marcus Thorsen
Here's what we did...
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| We are going to try to run each train tonight to see how accurate the times are on this schedule. |
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| Here's our crew for tonight's session. l. to r. Rob Fair, Jordan's friend, Tae, and Jordan Osborn |
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| Rob already ran one train to Harvard and back. This train is the second train to Harvard. |
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| This train is the third train on the layout tonight. It left Chicago Terminal and arrived at Geneva. Rob is on the return trip EB back to Chicago Terminal. |
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| We finished the night off getting ready to add grab irons and decals to this Walthers Cab car. |
Tue, May 21, 2024
Updating Cars in Consist paperwork and Train Order Board...
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| Finished updating Commuter Train 1A |
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| Finished updating Commuter Train 1B |
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| Finished updating Commuter Train 1D |
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| Then I updated those same three trains on the Train Order Board |
Wed, May 22, 2024
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| I'm going to add the grab irons to the Commuter Cars belonging to Commuter Train 1A |
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| Here is the front of the cab car with all the details attached. |
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| And now it's on to the coach cars (2) to finish the job. |
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| It takes about an hour to do the cab car. |
Another 30 minutes to finish the two coach cars.
Check out the Weekly Layout Update for a video on this process.
See Saturday's entry below:
Thu, May 23, 2024
I stopped by the home of Marcus Thorsen today and...
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| These pictures are for Chris Osborn, Jordan's dad. |
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| He's a N scale modeler and wanted to see this N-scale in-the-table-layout. |
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| Marcus is also doing more of his magic. We are going to improve the look of this section of the RR with one of his signature walls. |
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| I'm going to attempt to add these grab irons to the Walthers Commuter Cars using a #80 drill bit. You can hardly see it in the hand drill, but it's there! |
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| I drilled out the holes that were marked on the car. |
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| Inserted the grab irons. |
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| Painted... |
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| ...with this cream color acrylic paint. |
Fri, May 24, 2024
No train activity today.
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| Adding grab irons to the Walther's Commuter Cars. |
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| Looking good! They came in very small wire, so I had to paint them a cream color to match the car color. |
Sat, May 25, 2024
Updating paperwork and spreadsheets.
Also getting ready for Sunday guests.
Produced Weekly Layout Update
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YouTube video
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