Post Op Session Fixups

Monday was 'fix up the layout' day following the Operations Session on the day before, last weekend.  Basically I soldered a wire around a point, but this time it was the other end of the wire I soldered the previous week.  So when I change that point I now have power to the staff machines.  I adjusted the wires to an NCE QSNAP and it was working again.  It was now throwing points.  A point at the southern end of Border Loop had a bad point blade for the mainline.  That was superglued and now seems to work.  While running some trains, I found one point in South Brisbane Interstate Yard was not throwing in one direction.  I started tracing the point wiring and found no issues.  So I manually toggled the point and sure enough it is now throwing back and forth.  You can not make this stuff up.  It just happens.

I adjusted one train that was put into a track in a yard that I advised, but it was the wrong track.  So I fixed this up.  I adjusted the coupling heights on two wagons, by adding some washers under the bogie.  I swapped out one 44 class loco for another 44 class, as the old 44 class loco had wheels that kept going out of gauge and derailing on points.  So the person who drives that train again should get a better experience next time.

 

I also double checked the North Coast Controller’s headset, and I found no issues with it.  It seemed to be working.  As previously said, it probably was operator error.

 

I had a look at the timetable and realised that there was one train that had almost completed its run and was stopped a couple of loops short of its destination, and then by looking ahead at the next few timetable cards it showed that the next 8 cards needed to be run some of the way through their runs to be at the same time.  So I adjusted the fastclock time and I ran all 8 trains to where they should be at the same time.  So it will be 15:10 in the timetable when we next run.  I did quite a bit of shunting to get those trains to that point, so I probably deprived some people of that activity.

 

I have no idea when the next session will be.  But there will be one on the 28^th of December this year after a request from one regular to delay my normal Christmas session by a day.

 

Thursday was a day to finally look at my modelling project for the upcoming RMCQ exhibition.  I butchered some code up for my Arduino and gave it a test run.  It worked first time.  Now I just need to build my model.  That was Friday’s job.  The model will have a subterranean Arduino underneath the above ground detail.  I built up a step ladder.  I found some trees and some workers.  So early next week I will finish off the track and platform and do some terra forming, scenery and ballasting.