I also worked on power matching locomotives into consists. This will be the first op session to run nothing but Rock Island painted locomotives. How exciting!!
Although it seems like I haven't accomplished since the last op session in May, I was quite surprised to see that was not the case at all looking back on the blog.
- Completely rebuilt the locomotive fueling facility and Carrie Ave Shops at Davenport.
- Extended the third class track at Davenport Yard to join with the west lead of Carrie Ave Shops to connect with the west yard
- Re-aligned the yard ladder at West Davenport, added a new mainline south of the yard, added Keller Mills Inc. The relocation of Iowa Ready Mix and Contintenal Grain Co.
- Operations change: all locals will be pre-blocked now.
- Operations change: trains called to depart West Davenport will now acquire their power and caboose at Carrie Ave Shops, back onto their train and depart from the west yard. No switching will be performed at Davenport Yard by eastbounds.
- Reconfiguration of Consumers Ice & Fuel in the Davenport Industrial Park
- Converted to a new waybill system using Excel and Word mail merge vs. Shenandoah Software.
- Created new yard track labels and car blocking cards.
- The addition of Vandelay Industries and track relocation for D&D News in Blue Island.
- Removal of the vegetable oil track at ADM Milling in Stockdale, IL
- The first weathering of freight cars
- Otis Elevator has an identity now as their new globe logo sign was constructed
- New system created in Excel to distribute cars better across the layout and add randomness to operations
- Field research in Peoria, IL
- Joined the Rock Island Technical Society to acquire more information about the prototype
- The expansion into Peoria, IL on the layout
- Installation of 15 slide switches on turnouts installed over the summer
- Installation of new UTP panel and moving of the NCE booster
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