Kokomo Show

Knowing that Jim Hinners was planning to be at the show by 7:30 AM to set up his sale tables I got there a little early also. When I walked in I noticed that Dave Moree , show sponsor, had not provided as much space as he had said we could have. Les showed up a little later so along with Jim we rearranged the layout. We had to leave out a 4 foot module on each leg of the (3) sided layout and a 4 foot on the long side.

 

Most of the other guys showed up on time and we finished the layout. Once up and running things went pretty smoothly although I still had a few issues on my transition module leading into the yard. Mostly dirty points again but also a problem getting rolling stock out of the yard thru a couple of PECO switches. After using PECO electrofrogs on have my entire layout (somewhere around 50) gives me insul-frogs any day. Oh well what’s done is done!

 

I also introduced my new Alco PA dummy with camera pushed by a Kato PB unit with decoder. Worked great except the camera is channel 7 and I discovered that the club camera is also channel 7. I should have asked! I will pull mine apart and install a channel 3 so there are no interferences. We also installed flashing LED lights on the marker boards and LED headlight in the PA.  The club camera car ran well except thru some of my transition module turnouts!!! It also seemed to run better in reverse than forward so David will look into that issue. I won’t be using the transition module until fall so before then it will be fixed, modified or disposed of. I should note that on the transitions 3 club tracks the only engine that had a problem was the club camera car.

 

We ran all DCC and I think everyone was very pleased with all engines gaining access to all club trackage. I exchanged my PA unit for Mike Mogensen’s unit on a flat car so for most of the show we had both cameras in use and showing pictures on 2 TV’s. These are real crowd pleasers everywhere we go!

Members present were Jim Hinners , Les Lee, David Lee , John Lee, Jeff Johnson , and me. Visitors from Indy were Mike Mogensen and John Walker.  John ran his Monon passenger set for about an hour.

Tear down was at 4 PM and by 4:30 or 5:00 we were all on our way back to Indy.