Saturday, October 1, 2011

Work Session Coming Up

RPI will host a work session this coming Saturday, October 8.  Motorcars will set on Llano and head down the line to Kingsland.  I will be weedwhacking and mowing in Kingsland in the morning behind a red flag that requires oncoming rail traffic to stop (of course, the motorcars are the only rail traffic expected or even possible on our leased portion of the rail line).  I am looking forward to clearing our lines of sight at various rail-highway grade crossings for the Oct. 22 RPI fall run on the Llano Branch.

I worked on my M19AA this past week to get it ready for the fall run.  Lubricated all thirteen zerks and last weekend I tested it and it ran fine.  In the middle of the week I decided to replace an aluminum bar that serves as a mount for two small red running lights.  I fabricated a new one but while installing it I broke one of the running light lenses.  So had to order a new one.  It arrived yesterday and I installed it today.  I discovered I had left the ignition switch on while testing the running lights so now the battery was dead.  Took it out and recharged it--all systems go.

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