Construction history of the Jersey Subdivision
12/5/2009 The locomotive crew continues the sound decoder installations by installing a Digitrax Soundbug into a Kato SD80MAC and installing flashing ditch lights by gluing LEDs to shortened light pipes. The shells are sent to the paint shop for two coats of clear sealer.
7/17/2009 The locomotive crew continues the repainting and updating of the roster. 8979 comes out of the shop with fresh paint, a new sound system and many new details.
5/8/2009 Another locomotive repaint comes out of the shop.
3/26/2009 The locomotive
crew completes a repaint of a Kato C40-9W to Norfolk Southern colors
1/18/2009 A few new locomotives show up from other Class 1 railroads. The electrical crew also adds pushbutton controls for the staging areas.
8/24/2008 The electrical crew finishes building the control panel and installing the stationary controllers for the staging area.
7/19/2008 Kato finally releases their new Maxi IV intermodal units and the locomotive crew immediately places them in service.
6/14/2008 The electrical crew add DCC and sound to a P2K SD60. Some weight material had to be removed to make room for the 15mm x 35mm speaker. A Digitrax D165L0 decoder with a Soundbug chip was used.
6/7/2008 The electrical crew finally comes back to work and completes building a new version of the high current decoder adapter to increase the current capacity of the lighting and electrical systems. See the decoder adapter page for more details.
3/31/2008 A Trackmobile arrives.
2/24/2008 The track crew finally was able to continue work in the winter, bad weather and all. Construction is in high gear on the under layout additional staging area.
12/30/2007 Work continues on the freight terminal, water tower and landscaping.
