Week 569

Sun, Jun 22, 2025 thru Sat, Jun 28, 2025

Sun, Jun 22, 2025

Working on Weekly Layout Update video...

Mon, Jun 23, 2025

Train Day!

w/Rob Fair 6-8pm 2 hrs.

Jordan Osborn 6:30-7:30pm 1 hr.

Running Sequence Train #5 Commuter Train 1E EB

Using Power A5 RTA F40PH #138

Jordan Osborn at his post. Very helpful tonight!

Rob Fair switching the Industrial Park.

Sequence Train #4 running EB

Another view of the Commuter Train 1E EB

Tue, Jun 24, 2025

First thing this morning I published last week's

Weekly Layout Update to YouTube

If you missed it,

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to view the video

Duration: 11:02 mins.

Wed, Jun 25, 2025

Finally getting ready to work on the Metra F40PH
#132 decoder. This is the start up photo.

Using this MAIN BOARD display to start the connections.

I already connected the motor wires.
Now the track and speaker wires are attached.

On the other side, I'm attaching the track wires here.

Phase 1 is complete.

The next phase includes attaching the lights.

Thu, Jun 26, 2025

No train activity today.

Fri, Jun 27, 2025

Visit to Tom Stover's in Elburn IL for an operating session

Denver Yard on the left.
Don is the Denver Yard Master. Glynn is operating
Train 24. Jim is my engineer on Sante Fe Extra 201.
Tom is the dispatcher.

Another crew joins the operating session. That
is John and Alan running a passenger train.

To see some action from this session see tomorrow's Layout Update video...

Sat, Jun 28, 2025

The saga continues...

Duane Careb helped me get make sure the wires
were on correctly. He used the Ohms reader to check
continuity to track. 

At Tom Stover's he got the locomotive running again.

But we still are having problems. So it's back to
the workbench to find a solution.

See more of how this locomotive runs on the Weekly Layout Update video below:

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to view YouTube

Weekly Layout Update video

Duration: 11:04 mins.