- December 12
Ed Drozd tested three new Club locomotives. These are KATO units and run
very, very well. The only complaint is that their headlights (white LEDs)
are very bluish. John Shriver wired half of the trolley carbarn ladder to
a controller card. John Purbrick installed a new low voltage, high
amperage power supply that the Club recently purchased. This will be used
to power our increasing amount of five volt logic, especially the switch
controller cards. Andy Miller worked on a steam loco that he brought in,
and Ken Terrell painted some more of his many, many (30) long distance
bi-level coaches. Malcolm Laughlin gathered kits to work on during his
upcoming absence. Alvar Saenz-Otero performed various clerical tasks,
receiving an Office Depot shipment and preparing labels and coin wrappers
for future use. John McNamara and some of the others discussed a recent
Tom O'Reilly idea for a temporary staging area beyond Berkmannville. It
will be constructed from the old F-yard classication track unit
salvaged from Building 20.
- December 19
John Purbrick continued his work wiring Berkmannville. The Berkmannville
area was recently expanded with the addition of a small module built
during our later years in Building 20. This evening, Tom O'Reilly continued
the construction that he and Alvar started last week, which is to further
extend the Berkmanville area by adding the former F-Yard ladder as a
temporary staging facility until the "third lobe" of the layout is
constructed. John McNamara loaded the Coke machine. Ken Terrell did some
painting. Claude Brown, and later Joe Onorato, visited. The Cub Scout
troop that was expected at 7:15 never showed up.
|
|