{"id":19337,"date":"2024-03-12T16:37:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T06:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=19337"},"modified":"2024-03-12T16:37:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T06:37:30","slug":"pauls-blog-march-9-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=19337","title":{"rendered":"Paul\u2019s Blog \u2013 March 9, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-parallax\"><span class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-70 has-background-dim\"><\/span>\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-1365 has-parallax\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>On Saturday, March 9, volunteers Dwight Maxey, Colin Mellin, Bruce Davis, Chris Pollard, Dannis Hudson, Polly Cotton and Paul Brown worked on several projects, the first being one of the most important jobs at the Museum, cleaning up blown in tumbleweeds. While it doesn\u2019t seem important, it greatly improves the looks of the Museum grounds. While that work was being done, we were also charging the locomotive batteries in hope that we can start Engine 104 come the end of the month for the Easter event. When the weed cleanup was completed, we did some work on our Hi-Rail truck, and then took a lunch break.<\/p>\n<p>After lunch, we decided to take a look at our Wig Wag Crossing signal and see if we could figure out why the bell wasn\u2019t very loud and the target wasn\u2019t swinging fully. A few volunteers were able to get up to the mechanism to clean dirt and bugs out of the housing, adjust the gong bell so it now rings louder, and find a way to adjust a pair of contacts to allow for a larger swing arc for the target. We wrapped up the day by doing some measuring in the C&amp;W Caboose for some future work.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few pictures of the crew in action.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013 Paul<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_container swiper-container\"><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-prev swiper-button-prev swiper-button-white\"><\/a><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-next swiper-button-next swiper-button-white\"><\/a><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-pause\"><\/a>\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_pagination swiper-pagination swiper-pagination-white\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, March 9, volunteers Dwight Maxey, Colin Mellin, Bruce Davis, Chris Pollard, Dannis Hudson, Polly Cotton and Paul Brown worked on several projects, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heritage-trains"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}