Wednesday Meet Week

Got started at 9:30 AM with Rich and Jack. We got out Doug's locos and assembled a work train. Did a recheck of the one-inch line and we did find three more problems. After those were found and repaired, we went back to the Lawson Building area.

We started looking at the pieces Rich assembled for the Tunnel Lighting Project. We then got the sockets for the lamps and fitted them to the conduit boxes and worked out exactly how we would connect everything electrically and mechanically. Rich said tonight he is getting the bottles for the fixtures.

We had lunch and then Rich and Jack went off getting a train together and then surveying the semiphores on the onch and a half track. We believe the track is in good shape but they did find three signal problems.

I went out on the inch and repaired the targets on the semiphores by glueing shades on the fittings where they had come off. I got as far as the tunnel and just before it on the downhill side, I came off the track at the turnout just East of the tunnel portal. At the turnout, in the uphill direction it is OK because of the spring action and a train's wheels pushes the points into the correct position but in the opposite direction the points do not hold tight to the rail and you come derailed. Rich and Jack came to get it back on the track and I continued with the rest of the run.

Barry Solomon continued to work on the AC electric problems by the steaming bay and stayed busy for a couple of days now.