Week 548

Sun, Jan 26, 2025 thru Sat, Feb 1, 2025

Sun, Jan 26, 2025

I found some fences to put up around the
Clinton Street "L" station.

Installing the fences and the station signage.

Putting the station in place.

Pretty cool. I'm anxious to get the lights on to see
what that looks like.

Also put a sign on the overhead walkway.

And a sign above the stairways that go up to the platform.

A bit closer view.

I had to remove the tree so
I could get an even better view.

Now for the other platform. This one was bit trickier.

I didn't show all the work I had to do, but here are
both station  platforms in place. Not the station signage.

Looking at the signage from the other side.

Finally one las look at the stairway sign and the 
walkway sign above Clinton Street.

Mon, Jan 27, 2025

Train Day!

with Rob Fair 6-8pm 2 hrs.

Jordan Osborn 6-7pm 1 hr.

Great work men!

One of the last Commuter Trains stopping at
Lombard Station.

Jordan Osborn prepares to say, "Good-bye"

Both Commuter Trains back at West Chicago Yard

Lights ON at the Clinton Street "L" station platforms.

Tue, Jan 28, 2025

Getting ready to populate the Train Order Board with a new session

My Proviso Yard worksheet.

Laying out the paperwork to prepare for another
new Train Order Board session.

These sheets are used to determine what locomotives
I will use with each train consist.

The sheet on the right shows how many hours
each locomotives is run. I will try to use lower
running locomotives on the next runs.

This is what a cleared Train
Order Board looks like.

This is a new report to help me determine which
train consist will be matched with which locomotive.

Wed, Jan 29, 2025

My worksheet to figure out where the trains are
currently located and then the route they'll take
to their final destinations.

Thu, Jan 30, 2025

Way too messy.
Time todo some cleanup.

It gets worse.

See what I mean.

There, that looks much better.

Back to Train Order Board.
Step 1: Assign Power to all Trains

Step 2:
Write in Originates/Terminates
locations.

Coming up:
Assigning clipboards to Sequence #s and adding
sequence #s

Fri, Jan 31, 2025

Writing out Train Sequence

Assigning Clipboards to each
Train Consist

Train Order Board Set Up binder...

Contents page

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Step 4
use worksheet to write out direction of travel
and where train originates and terminates

Updated Clipboards.
4 clipboards designated for "Solo" trains.
8 clipboards used for "Sequence" trains.

Sequence trains in green.

All clipboards updated.

Sat, Feb 1, 2025

New display.
8 clipboards in Sequence order.
4 clipboards for "Solo" trains in designated locations.

Clipboard numbers updated
on Train Order Board

Finished cleaning up the work areas.

Looking more like "normal".

Flashlights in the train room looking for box elder bugs.

We found a few by the window sill.

YouTube Weekly Layout Update

Season 2025 Blog 548

Parts 1 & 2

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Final Running of last 2 Commuter Trains on Train Order Board

Project Update

Duration: 03:26 minutes

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Training Video

Train Order Board Start Up

Duration: 16:43 minutes