Welcome back everyone. My apologies to the group and a special thanks to Russel for setting up the Friday WMP thread. I was home for two weeks and between work and commitments I totally forgot about the WMP thread. My apologies and now to get back on track. Saturday: Was spent enduring the long trip back to Central Illinois from my home in New Hampshire. We left at 10:05am and drove through NH. VT, NY and Ohio through the day and night. Sunday: The morning found us in Dayton OH and soon Indiana. We arrived in Central Illinois at 3:02am and by 3:30am had the car unpacked, dogs back in their kennels and both of us in bed. We slept until 9:00am then cleaned up and welcomed Angela's dad. We went to a local Apple and Pork festival and put some walking on then came back and relaxed the rest of the night. Those 18 - 22 hour drives really take a lot out of us. No real modeling this weekend but it will return in high gear next weekend as the days to work in the garage are slowly fading. So how about you? What did you get done? Let us know. We'll do it again on Friday, September 30th to start of the first weekend in October. Until then, have a great week, be safe, stay healthy and as always... High Greens!
Good morning to Y'all, Worked on the S-4's and SD-7's- Starting point For the S-4's (You can see the disassembled SD-7 in the background) Thanks, - Hope Y'all had a great weekend, Wolf
The weather was just cool enough Saturday and Sunday to finish demo of the last 40 linear feet of the 1:1 fence scratchbuild, and then set 5 of the 7 remaining posts. I would have finished up all 7, but the two posts not planted have significant visible curves to them, and so I need to get two more. I also unpacked all the goodies acquired last weekend in Altoona, and I may have solved my benchwork dilemma for the rest of the layout.
Good morning. Had a good weekend. Got back from a short beach vacation on Thursday afternoon. Managed to work in the train room Saturday morning and all day Sunday. Saturday afternoon and night was spent watching football. In the train room it was all wiring. I discovered putting in my PSX4 breakers that I had a few feeders and short branch busses crossing over from one power district to another. Saturday morning and all day yesterday I disconnected all track from the DCC output bus. Then, went back and connected ONE power district. Took my multi-meter and measured voltage at all track. In a few places I got voltage on track that was "supposed" to be "OFF". Where that occurred, I went under the layout and almost immediately found the cross connection. Once I got the power district isolated, I disconnected it, connected the next district and repeated. Went through all 4 of my power districts and got everything isolated. Then got back under the layout with my label maker and corrected the labeling. Not much glitz and glamour but it was well worth the time spent. The problem was almost always with wiring I installed VERY early in the layout building and never labeled. So the moral is, label that wiring and meter the blocks as they get installed. Have a great week all!!
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I spent three days last week working security for the Put-in-Bay Road Race Reunion on South Bass Island on Lake Erie. Island = no trains. And, while I took homework with me, and did get some done, once home, catching up on my week's assignment took me the rest of my available free time until Sunday evening at 10:00 pm. I did manage to get out to the Sebring Model Railroad Club for a couple hours Sunday afternoon, saw a little of what got done at last week's work day (not much), and did bookkeeping to prepare for next week's monthly business meeting. In any case, here's a picture of me, an island sunrise, and a handful of race cars from my station near turn three. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk
Good morning from sunny and mild Northeast Ohio! Bowling went well on Friday, I won a jackpot with my 226 game and the team won 5 out of 7 points. Managed to get some decaling done on two cars prior to going bowling. Saturday, the Strongsville Historical Society Harvest Festival brought about 200 visitors to our club's open house, other than a derailment when the dispatcher, (me) tried a complicated move the layout and trains ran flawlessly. Later in the evening finished decaling the two cars, will dullcoat sometime in the coming week. Sunday, Laundry and Choir Practice and I almost completed another Tichy Panel Sided Hopper car, just a few details and it is ready for painting along with a couple of other cars. Rick Jesionowski
I worked Saturday so that put a speed bump into things at home. After I got home I took the wife out to mail an item she sold on one of those websites. We then went to buy some mums and do a little shopping and ended out trip with a nice dinner. Sunday was catch up day around the house. Did some laundry. We pulled the plants from the raised garden on the front patio and planted the mums we got on Saturday. Also took down the window boxes as some of the plants were not looking good. Then the rain came and chased indoors. we began the long process of bringing up the Halloween decoration bins from the basement. I did get some train time in. I built four Athearn blue box kits; a Lehigh Valley 3 bay open hopper, Michigan Alkyl Chemical Tank Car, and two PRR GATX 50 FT box cars (a two car Special Edition set). I also built an Atlanta & West Point 40 FT Steel Box car Accurail kit. I changed out the couplers to Kadees on a Jersey Central Athearn NE caboose, and a BAR State of Maine boxcar. I had hoped to run my new BLI E6 Atlantic but I never got the time to do so.
Very little, due to working. I did order some MT couplers. Looking at a reorder of a couple HOn30 items from Shapeways. A little daydreaming- After next weekend, vacation! At least not working. Ha ha. Depending upon weather. Some Fall railfanning? Some serious progress on a module or two? Haven't decided....
Wow! Impressive! I left out Fri.am and drove a lot (two hours ). Then two more back. Sat.am. I drove to Summerville, GA and later drove back. I do not envy a 22-hour drive at all. I was tired all day Sun. it seemed like. SP-Wolf's work looks mint. And we gotta' have good labeling. Also, who doesn't love toaster-oven racing? Other projects underway. Glad the laundry is under control. Before I left Fri. am, I continued working on making windows. Test mounted one. More work underway this week. All be well.
John, That little blue Saab sure is ducking down in the back. Typical! I got into Sedan Racing in the late '70s. 4 door sub-compacts with no modifications. Most were Datsun's. All allowed/required was a roll bar, racing seat harness and racing tires. That was fun.
