Saturday Fire, Electrical and Cleanup While It Rained

We opened the main buildings up and did some miscellaneous stuff then we went to the roundhouse and got out a locomotive then up to the car barn and got out some cars. We met Jack and after discussing the fire last weekend,  then we went up to peruse the area. Apparently a steamer had let a few embers fly on the one-inch and they caught the brush on fire near the track. Folks responded with the extinguishers and got it put out but it burned perhaps 100 square feet of ground cover before it was out. It scorched one of our cables for the signal system so we wanted to repair it as soon as possible which we had every intention of doing, until the rain started coming down fairly regularly. We decided to park the train in a tunnel and walk down off the hill and eat lunch.

After lunch - there is still some of Whit's cobbler left..., we decided to do stuff in the roundhouse and the Grelson building. Rich went off to the roundhouse and I started in the Grelson building cleaning up stuff on the benches and sorting things. Whatever we do, please do not purchase any half-inch metallic conduit fittings until you check our stock supply. Other than putting like things together and labeling what is possible to label it is a difficult task to organize the stuff. We lack storage bins and shelves for storage bins. Trying to separate hardware and bring some order to the chaos is what I am trying to do. People need to put things back where they find them and check out the stock before buying more hardware.

We have to paint the tunnel lamp covers so that is a task for the next week or two. We found out that there is no way to tell if our distributed AC power panels are working so we decided to add a tunnel light assembly to the three remote power panels we have around the property. I suggested we monitor the DC supplies at those locations as well which is difficult to do because all the three are paralleled. I suggested a large rectifier diode in series with the output of each supply should isolate each unit enough to allow a lamp to indicate if the supply is working or not.