First Day of Meet - Friday

We (Rich, Jack and I) started the day working on rechecking the one-inch line. We got out two trains and went around the track being certain the signals were correctly sending back to the last semaphore so it displays a yellow when the block ahead is open and the next block is a red. Then we got around to installing a new semaphore near Wellington and installing one in a head that was dead on the reverse direction. The new style semaphore is better looking and easier to see in the sun.

We got 4180 out to check out the signals on the inch and a half line as well. Just to be sure. All signals are working and we feel the rail road is working just as it should.

We looked at Doug Ebert's locos again as they seemed sluggish. All batteries seemed to be charged fully as we read 24 to 26 Volts at the charging terminal so perhaps the locos are simply geared down and seem sluggish compared to the F7s that the club has.

At One PM I gave a seminar on Internet Applications for Railroad Clubs. I discussed Blogs, Web sites, Waves and Wikis. The purpose is to familiarize clubs with the Internet tools that are available and what it takes to use them.