Slow, but sure

Fellow Gandy Dancers (our Thursday night round robin group) are providing extra hands and much needed expertise in getting the P&LE running. As in many things, it's taking longer than hoped, but it is being done extremely well.

Bill Levin (l) and Kent Tallyn (r) taking a break from adding drops from the track to the buss wires.

Thursday night, much of the gang was here. Kent Tallyn did the under-the-bench wiring, running the buss wires and hooking up the drops from the tracks via 3M Scotchlock "suitcase" connectors. Bill Levin and Tom Gaffuri were soldering the drops to the tracks; Bill Buhr worked on a turnout connection that was causing a kink; and Hank Kraichely spent the evening weathering the ties.

Sunday, Bill Buhr returned and worked on two additional turnouts. He also brought his test car to run through its paces to see that the track was running smoothly.

Bill Buhr with his track test car that he constructed. It works well.

Next to be completed are two short pieces of track to be put down, the remainder of the drops to be soldered to the track and then attached to the buss wires, and the NCE control system installed. The plan is that assuming I can get some of it down between now and Thursday, the group can get the rest done Thursday night. The beat goes on.