1 : 1 scale modeling

[e-paw]

Latter in the afternoon we went about some more work on the "B", in order to have her ready for the last two trips in October. One trip is to East Stroudsburg and the other is to the Water Gap. We first looked into the starting contactor, All the wiring that I had installed earlier from the main cabinet to the starting cabinet checked out fine. We removed the wire to the generator on the Starting contactor and hit the start button and,,,,,, nothing ????? The coil should have energized and pulled in the contactor. We traced out the old NS wire and found out lots of strange things. The starting contactor is wired trough a breaker called "local Control" and also through the Sanding relay. None of this is on our prints. With the way the NS cabinet is wired, you have to be putting sand down on the rail in order to start the engine, and if the local control breaker is on, the engine will be constantly trying to start. This will take some looking into to see what NS was trying to do here.

While I was doing that, the MU hoses for the main reservoir, independent brake, and trainline air were replaced on both ends.