Greg@mnrr
Section Hand
Good Afternoon Everyone:....................Snowing and just came up from the basement after troublesome day working on the trains.
I ran two trains on the mainline and then decided to run the switcher coupled with a car that has a Masonite track cleaning pad on the mine spur while the trains ran on the main. I was sitting maybe 10 feet away from the locomotive and I never paid any attention to the way the turnouts were set and the locomotive ran a turnout which shut down the entire layout. At first I thought I had a turnout that wasn't behaving then I found out it was operator error that cause the derailment!
I'll have to learn to follow the signals that I mounted on the mount structure to indicate the turnout positions on the mine spur.
There is a area under the layout by a couple of terminals that are rat's nests of wires and I decided today that I would make the wiring more professional looking. Nearby and its wiring sharing a terminal is a sound effects module for a herd of cows that are in a pasture by the mainline. A mini-toggle switch on the main line operates the sound module. Also, in this area is wiring for the mine, lighting and signals. After I rewired the mess everything worked except the cow module.
Another project for another day.
I should of tested the cow sound module like I did for the lights and signals before I did the work and when wild with a wire cutters and rerouting wires.
I did glue in place a piece of ground foam in an area that basically out of reach for me and I need to use a kitchen thongs to place the ground foam. This project as been avoided for months, but is now completed. There several other smaller areas that are closer and are sort of within reach that need more ground foam that during the next work session that I'll glue in place.
Chet: Yes, that load of fine Montana Sour Mash Whiskey arrived, but there were several bottles missing from a case. Please have a talk with your loading crew. We'll send the Logan Valley box car back on the next west bound Northern Pacific bound freight.
You're lucky to have Ginger follow you around like she does and she doesn't stray away. The last two dogs we had would stay with me but tended to wander if distracted if they saw another dog or human. At the cabin, Katie would make a bee line to the truck hoping I wouldn't leave her alone. She loved to go on deer rides, but was afraid of bears. New puppy soon, a rescue dog for sure.
Curt: Thanks for the compliment on the photograph.
Sherrel: Your photograph would make a nice Christmas card if wasn't October 8, 2018.
Almost Miller Time.
Greg
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Not railroad related and I don't know where I got this photograph of a kit bashed boat.
I ran two trains on the mainline and then decided to run the switcher coupled with a car that has a Masonite track cleaning pad on the mine spur while the trains ran on the main. I was sitting maybe 10 feet away from the locomotive and I never paid any attention to the way the turnouts were set and the locomotive ran a turnout which shut down the entire layout. At first I thought I had a turnout that wasn't behaving then I found out it was operator error that cause the derailment!
I'll have to learn to follow the signals that I mounted on the mount structure to indicate the turnout positions on the mine spur.
There is a area under the layout by a couple of terminals that are rat's nests of wires and I decided today that I would make the wiring more professional looking. Nearby and its wiring sharing a terminal is a sound effects module for a herd of cows that are in a pasture by the mainline. A mini-toggle switch on the main line operates the sound module. Also, in this area is wiring for the mine, lighting and signals. After I rewired the mess everything worked except the cow module.
Another project for another day.
I should of tested the cow sound module like I did for the lights and signals before I did the work and when wild with a wire cutters and rerouting wires.
I did glue in place a piece of ground foam in an area that basically out of reach for me and I need to use a kitchen thongs to place the ground foam. This project as been avoided for months, but is now completed. There several other smaller areas that are closer and are sort of within reach that need more ground foam that during the next work session that I'll glue in place.
Chet: Yes, that load of fine Montana Sour Mash Whiskey arrived, but there were several bottles missing from a case. Please have a talk with your loading crew. We'll send the Logan Valley box car back on the next west bound Northern Pacific bound freight.
You're lucky to have Ginger follow you around like she does and she doesn't stray away. The last two dogs we had would stay with me but tended to wander if distracted if they saw another dog or human. At the cabin, Katie would make a bee line to the truck hoping I wouldn't leave her alone. She loved to go on deer rides, but was afraid of bears. New puppy soon, a rescue dog for sure.
Curt: Thanks for the compliment on the photograph.
Sherrel: Your photograph would make a nice Christmas card if wasn't October 8, 2018.
Almost Miller Time.
Greg
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Not railroad related and I don't know where I got this photograph of a kit bashed boat.
