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An up-date on what has been going on around here. We are making progress in setting up the car cards and routing cards for operations. To satisfy the industries we currently have on the layout and keep the layout in balance car wise, we will need to generate 602 way bills to start things off. I sounds like a lot, but we are using Shenware to generate the way bills so it should not be that painful to do.
We had a minor set back a couple weeks back. We have a space heater located in the layout room, someone got cold and turned the heater on high to warm themselves up, however they failed to shut the heater off when they left at the end of the evening. So the heater heated up the room for 4 days, and caused heat kinks on a half dozen switches in the area of the layout that was closest to the heater.
I'm sorry I didn't get pictures, some of the kinks were pretty narley looking. Once the heat was shut off and the room cooled down a couple of the rails went back to normal, but we found a few more messed up switches. Last night we managed to repair the switches in place so the layout is back up and running and life is good again.
Rick
An up-date on what has been going on around here. We are making progress in setting up the car cards and routing cards for operations. To satisfy the industries we currently have on the layout and keep the layout in balance car wise, we will need to generate 602 way bills to start things off. I sounds like a lot, but we are using Shenware to generate the way bills so it should not be that painful to do.
We had a minor set back a couple weeks back. We have a space heater located in the layout room, someone got cold and turned the heater on high to warm themselves up, however they failed to shut the heater off when they left at the end of the evening. So the heater heated up the room for 4 days, and caused heat kinks on a half dozen switches in the area of the layout that was closest to the heater.
I'm sorry I didn't get pictures, some of the kinks were pretty narley looking. Once the heat was shut off and the room cooled down a couple of the rails went back to normal, but we found a few more messed up switches. Last night we managed to repair the switches in place so the layout is back up and running and life is good again.
Rick
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