Tuesday on the one-inch line

Rich picked me up about 9AM and we got going. When we arrived we first went to the roundhouse and got Doug Ebert's Rock Island units working. All three are now working like they should. We got a work train together and loaded up the tools and supplies and headed up to Summit and back down to the work area. Just after the long curved tressel we started working on the bond wires Rich started drilling new holes at each fishplate and I started removing the old hardware that was not working at each location. I then bent the bonding wire and screwed it down using the #6 sheet metal screws. After finishing the locations out in the sun (about 8) we moved into the shady area. The temperature was in the high 80s and the sun seemed brutal out there. The shaded areas were much nicer to work on the track. Rich must have drilled 60 or so holes in the track and I was glad I was able to skip that step - especially on the tressels because there is a board at the outside of the tie ends that blocks your access to the web. I was able to reuse some of the existing screws and holes but the tie-end board was a real nusiance.

I was able to finish about 40 bond wire repairs today and the signals on the one-inch should be working completely. I moved the work train back to the depot and unloaded my tools and supplies and went back to the Lawson Building.