Sun, Dec 29, 2024 thru Sat, Jan 4, 2025
Sun, Dec 29, 2024
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| Working on the lower wall on Canal Street, Chicago |
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| Adding two sections of underpasses. |
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| One of those underpasses is shown here. |
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Looking at the underpass straight on.
Putting the pieces in place for layout. |
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| Canal Street is ready for details. |
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| Everything now glued in place - permanently. |
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| All the way to the end of the layout. |
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| The other underpass. |
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| My work station with most of the pieces now used up. |
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| That took 47 minutes. I'll record .75 for my records. |
Mon, Dec 30, 2024
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| Jordan shows off his new iPad he got for Christmas. |
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| Another work space used to check the new lamp posts. |
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| Drilling the hole for the new lamp post. |
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| Inserting the wire using the flashlight for light. |
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| Lamp post inserted. Now to hook up the wires. |
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My restaurant scene had chairs and the umbrella
blown over. I made some minute adjustments. |
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| Looking much better. |
Tue, Dec 31, 2024
No train activity today.
Wed, Jan 1, 2025
More work on the Clinton Street Chicago Terminal Project
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Holes are drilled and plastic tubes inserted.
The plastic tubes act like conduit for the wiring. |
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| A look along Clinton Street viewing south. |
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| This first session today took 12 minutes. |
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Later today...
I grabbed a Google Maps view of what I'm trying to model. |
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On the model I left the top part of the wall open
so I can view the trains as they arrive into the station. |
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| This is the view of Clinton street looking north. |
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This is the same view of the model on Clinton Street
looking north. |
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I even wired up the lights
to illuminate them. |
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The same view looking the
other direction. |
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That session took 55 minutes.
I told Jan I would only be gone 30 minutes.
Oh oh... |
Thu, Jan 2, 2025
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Removing the facia so I can work on the underpass
sections. |
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I need to remove the sidewalk sections for the road
to pass through. |
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I used a Dremel tool to carve out the ends of the
sidewalks. |
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| Then slowly remove the sidewalk and trim the corners... |
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| ...on both sections. |
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| That part of the project to 26 minutes. |
Fri, Jan 3, 2025
Train operations at Tom Stover's today...
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| Train 24 heading EB out of Denver |
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The first of 5 crew members.
Carl, Tom and Glynn. |
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| Still running EB through Brekenridge. |
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| Our fourth crew member, Duane. |
Back in my basement...
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| Adding the crosswalk lines. |
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| Both sections. |
Next up:
Adding trees and purchasing traffic signals.
Sat, Jan 4, 2025
Jan and I went to Hobby Lobby and bought...
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12 Deciduous Trees 12 pc 92046
Item $10.99 Tax $0.88 Total $11.97 |
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| First Tree Planted! |
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The rest are ready to be planted.
Hopefully later today.
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Later that same day
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Drilled out the holes for the tree stumps. Then I
cut out the square for the planting box. |
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| Planting the trees... |
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| All the trees are now planted. |
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| Another look from the other view. |
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| Facia and glass protective sheet in place. |
This is as far as I'm going to get on Clinton Street for now.
I plan on adding traffic signals at both underpass intersections.
More later...
For now?
to view Weekly Layout Update
Clinton Street Chicago Terminal Project Progress
Start to Finish...almost.
Duration: 10:28 minutes
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