That just means we completed our 5th Ops Session. Had my 3 smiling regulars: Tim (Model Railcast
Show), Bob (Ntrainz1), and Gene (epumph). And this time our guest operator was
Mario (mrodtoo).
Things didn't always go the way they were planned (i.e.
trains didn't always run in the direction they were supposed to go) but we had
a good time. (Good people make a good hobby!).
I managed to get the Model Power burning building
working with 6 volts of batteries. But it takes almost 2 minutes to warm up to
flickering so I've order some additional inexpensive battery holders and will
move it up to 9 volts. I'll use the 6 volts on the haunted house.
I added a 4th Miller Engineering animated sign (Jesus Saves).
I'm a little disappointed in this one since none of the 46 animation
combinations highlight the middle S until the "saved" portion kicks
in. I think their research failed them. This sign also has a soft high pitched
whine when it is on (fortunately the sign is 3+ feet from the layouts edge). It
also gave me a jolt (capacitor) when I picked up the control unit on while it
was on.
Finally I added a track to the coal supply portion of the
coaling tower (which is on a slight incline and wants to dump the hopper car
back into the turntable pit when jostled).
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