Friday Report

 Once again, this will be brief.

I spent some time trying to fix the defective resistors on the 319, but finally decided this just wasn't going to be reliable enough.  We will probably be able to buy new resistors that will work much better, and we're working on that now.

In any case, we won't be needing the 36 for the rest of the season, so we decided to switch it out of the train.   Since its compressor isn't working, it puts a load on the other two compressors.

The 319 is posed in Yard 8 while the 409 comes out for revenue service.  Just like Wheaton!

And I got a chance to visit the model railroad part of the MPB, as some painters were finishing up in the room.  I wanted a better image of the big photograph of the old Coleman factory on Halsted:

Of course, it would be better without those boxes piled in front of it.

The Museum has managed to collect a large assortment of model trains over the past few years, and it will take a lot of work to sort it all out.