{"id":177,"date":"2011-10-24T21:34:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T03:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calon.ca\/Wordpress\/?p=177"},"modified":"2011-10-24T21:34:21","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T03:34:21","slug":"october-23-2011-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calon.ca\/Wordpress\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"October 23, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received a phone call from one of the hobby shops I deal with advising my Intermountain wheels were in. \u00a0Goodie&#8230;I can take the plastic wheels out of the new boxcar kits I&#8217;ve assembled and turn them into scrap loads. \u00a0Not that I&#8217;m likely to ever do that since wheelsets likely wouldn&#8217;t have been changed out anywhere other than Wellcox yard on the island&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Gave Cam a call in the early afternoon, woke him up, and then advised we&#8217;d be headed out. \u00a0Stopped by Eastridge for the wheels, found they didn&#8217;t have any needed Peco track pins and went to Ewok Emporium (aka Chinook &amp; Hobby West &#8211; South) for those. \u00a0Bought all six bags of them since I&#8217;m quite likely going to need that many (and more) for the rest of the layout.<\/p>\n<p>Did a bit of railfanning down at the spot and had a bit of lunch, then back to the house for some additional work on the layout.<\/p>\n<p>Accomplished was a fair bit more wiring\/soldering work, cutting isolation gaps between power sub-districts (I&#8217;m subdividing the four power districts on the layout to further protect the remainder of the layout from the inevitable shorts) and getting a couple Bullfrogs installed on the siding switches at Bryn.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, another productive afternoon. \u00a0Once things get wired into a command station\/booster, and bullfrogs installed at Parksville, I can actually do a little switching. \u00a0Whoo hoo!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nJon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received a phone call from one of the hobby shops I deal with advising my Intermountain wheels were in. \u00a0Goodie&#8230;I can take the plastic wheels out of the new boxcar kits I&#8217;ve assembled and turn them into scrap loads. \u00a0Not that I&#8217;m likely to ever do that since wheelsets likely wouldn&#8217;t have been changed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calon.ca\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calon.ca\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calon.ca\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calon.ca\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calon.ca\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calon.ca\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"http:\/\/www.calon.ca\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calon.ca\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calon.ca\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calon.ca\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}