{"id":210,"date":"2011-11-20T23:19:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T05:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calon.ca\/Wordpress\/?p=210"},"modified":"2011-11-20T23:19:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T05:19:55","slug":"november-20-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calon.ca\/Wordpress\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"November 20, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Called Cam and Dan this morning to invite them on a hobby shop crawl (nice this city has several shops open on Sunday!) and then do some work on the layout.  I picked up a proto 2000 sw9\/1200 for the port alberni switcher, (needs a dip as I don&#8217;t think the alberni pacific paint scheme has ever been done RTR.) some decals for when the GP9&#8217;s are painted, and the latest edition of <em>Railfan Canada<\/em> which has an article about the E&#038;N.<\/p>\n<p>When we got back to my place, work progressed on fixing a couple of other minor sunkinks and fixing a short on the layout.  Two things discovered through that hour plus of frustration:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The continuity on my layout is freaking fantastic!<\/li>\n<li>don&#8217;t use a piece of rail set between the ties as a temporary wheel stop.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Most of the Victoria sub is now fully wired and I&#8217;ve also even started installing the UP5&#8217;s into the layout, thanks to the silver satin cable and plugs I picked up from active electronics yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nJon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Called Cam and Dan this morning to invite them on a hobby shop crawl (nice this city has several shops open on Sunday!) and then do some work on the layout. I picked up a proto 2000 sw9\/1200 for the port alberni switcher, (needs a dip as I don&#8217;t think the alberni pacific paint scheme [&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\/210"}],"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=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calon.ca\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calon.ca\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calon.ca\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calon.ca\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}