Hello all!
Thanks to Glue Bob, Pack Rat Paul (hope you are feeling better), Band Camp, Coal Finger, and Colin for the great help last evening. We are a bit behind the schedule to be ready for the first open house on the 9th of October. Once we inspected the alignment at the joints we used a razor saw and cut the rail. Now the 4 sections are totally indepentend. We then pulled the sections apart again and took them outside around the outside of the house and tested the "fit" in Paul's Jeep and in my car. Not the best situation! I sent an email to Howard G. to see if he could round up a pick-up truck.
We also did some basic scenery, clarified the numbering system for the legs and fine tuned their fit! Bob was a mad man on the belt sander; even with a very sore back!
We reassembled the 4 sections and connected the power. We then attempted to operate a locomotive on straight DC. That sure was a "big flop!" There is a short somewhere. Some of the scenery work around the grain elevator at Zeeland Farms was still wet from the water / glue solution as we think that could be a problem. We did not get a good feeling of the reliability of the DC transformers either.
Okay - now to bring you up to speed....... this morning I replaced all the facia, started scenery work at the cememt yard and retested operation. Limited success on running an engine however. The test engine ran on about 2/3 of the layout. The Zeeland Farms / Lake Blackshear module seems to still be an issue. So still more work to be done!
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
Steve
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