Good day all.
It has been an interesting week here. We had 2 rainy days in a row with over 2 inches of a soaking gentle rain, a far cry from the severe thunder storms the TV channel was predicting.
I had a visit from a Danish friend I had met at the Kiski in 1998 and despite running trains when he arrived they wouldn't run. He was here Thursday and we did have a fun visit.
Par for the course I went out to the railroad and managed to find I had picked up a throttle that would light but wouldn't run the trains. I discovered I had plugged it into a cat5 crossover cable (talk about a bear to find) so I checked all the cables and found 3 crossover cables that found there way from the train room to the wire cutters for end removal null
While I was searching for problems I found a disconnected cable to a walkaround outlet that had not been working for a year and now it is back in order. I actually ran trains for a couple hours on Friday and an hour this morning.
It is a bit on the cool side, and cloudy but the rain is over for now.
Hoping everyone is safe and healthy
Cheers
Charlie
It has been an interesting week here. We had 2 rainy days in a row with over 2 inches of a soaking gentle rain, a far cry from the severe thunder storms the TV channel was predicting.
I had a visit from a Danish friend I had met at the Kiski in 1998 and despite running trains when he arrived they wouldn't run. He was here Thursday and we did have a fun visit.
Par for the course I went out to the railroad and managed to find I had picked up a throttle that would light but wouldn't run the trains. I discovered I had plugged it into a cat5 crossover cable (talk about a bear to find) so I checked all the cables and found 3 crossover cables that found there way from the train room to the wire cutters for end removal null
While I was searching for problems I found a disconnected cable to a walkaround outlet that had not been working for a year and now it is back in order. I actually ran trains for a couple hours on Friday and an hour this morning.
It is a bit on the cool side, and cloudy but the rain is over for now.
Hoping everyone is safe and healthy
Cheers
Charlie