Recent work by the signals crew

Saturday 5/15 Rich picked me up and we went out to the track. We turned out to be the second and third person there at just after 9AM. We opened up and got to surveying the inch and a half track for signal problems. What we do is take out a work train and starting at a semaphore drop off a person and then using radios have the train proceed forward in the block and if the signal turns green while in the block we mark its location and then pickup the person and go to the next block and do it again. When a bond wire is missing that is the symptom. When we finished the entire loop of track then Rich worked on replacing a double semaphore at twin bridges doing the pre-wiring at the site and I prewired the base box back at the picnic tables. We then connected up the signal and went on to repair the semaphore at the long curved bridge. I worked on bonding wires for a while and came back on Sunday to repair more bond wires as well as look at the roundhouse turnout controller that was displaying both aspect lights. I coordinated with Tommy the repair of the controller.


Monday I got a new CAD (Computer aided drawing) program called DoubleCad XT (like AutoCAD lt) so I could draw Tommy's turnout control guts and make a how to fix it sheet. I made up a drawing and sent it to Tommy for comment.