WOOHOO! Good weather = time to build

[Gary S]

I haven't taken the time to determine the problem with the boxcar yet - I did get the spurs in Industrual Area 3 done though. Permanent magnets, feeders, and track laid. I also installed the last two turn-outs at Middle Yard. All that is left there is to extend the RIP track and another spur.

Thanks for all the thoughts on the boxcar issue. Great comments on the "one at that end of spec and the other at the other end of the spec" possibility. I did check the wheelsets with an NMRA gauge and they were dead on. As I mentioned earlier, this particular boxcar was "sluggish" when rolled on the track. When the other cars are rolled by hand, they travel a good distance down the track, but this car didn't. I'm thinking that had something to do with it.

Sounds to me like you have the makin's for a nice converted boxcar storage facility for one of your interchange yards

Worst case, I'll change the trucks and wheelsets. I did replace the wheelsets today, but didn't take the time to run it through the switch. Maybe tomorrow.

Here's where we have a situation commonly known as "tolerance build up" - when each dimension in a succession of dimensions is within the plus-or-minus tolerance, but maybe in this case all are on the "plus" end of the tolerance scale. Now we introduce a part the fits at the far end of that succession of dimensions, all which we know are within tolerance, that is on the "minus" end of the tolerance scale, but still within tolerance and ... horrors ... it doesn't fit!

I've always found a big hammer to be the solution...