Good News and Bad News
The good news is that Derwin got his power back yesterday about 3:00pm after being without power for 4 days. Unfortunately, there are still folks on the Island without power and the electric utility is saying it’ll be until tomorrow (Sunday) at least before they get the power on to all residents. It’s a good thing the weather is still fairly mild, if you call just about the freezing mark “mild”.
The bad news is Moncton had a fairly major freezing rain storm early this morning. So the guys there decided to postpone their trip over. Hopefully we’ll have a good March and they’ll make it over then.
Meanwhile, the BS&T is all ready for operating and it is yelling at me to get some trains moving. I even prepared a new report for my ops program to make the job of the wayfreight crews easier. The paperwork they had previously showed only part of the work they had to do and it wasn’t organized well. It wasn’t really intended to be used for a wayfreight.
So, I spent some time this week adding a new table to the database to record the direction (East/West) from and to each town. Now the paperwork is very efficient and shows the crew what they have to pick up and drop off to each switching area.
Oh well, I’ll have time to get more scenery work and some other maintenance tasks done before our guest operators arrive.
Off to the train room!
Scott
Scott
The work is never done…. just got back from another track buying trip. Yards eat track.
later
Doug
PS
Glad to hear that Derwin has power again. Sorry to hear the Moncton Gang could not make the trip.
Yup, it doesn’t take long to go through a bundle of track. Just got back from the new guy’s place (Tom). Derwin, Brian, and I helped him lay track on his layout and went through almost 3 bundles (15 pieces) in an 8′ x 8′ room.
Now I think I’m going to answer the call of the train room and try running a full set of orders by myself. I wonder how long it’ll take.
Scott
Ok Scott
How long did it take?
Thinking of mine would be around four hours to complete one set of orders (half a session)
Doug
I spent about 1.5 hours yesterday and I was half done of one wayfreight. Finished it in about an hour today. That included the local pickups and deliveries in each town.
There’s another wayfreight in the opposite direction, the Wholinthall Turn and the Transfer Turn, so probably another 3 or 4 hours to complete the session.
I’ve never really done much operating on the BS&T. I’m usually just doing a little bit of local switching, or running the helpers. This has proven to be a very worthwhile exercise. I have identified and repaired a few issues that I was unaware of.
Must go run the Turns.
Scott