[Accrs-ho] At the club today

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I did not get under the layout to see if the occupancy system as a whole was not on.  I just noticed that none of the occupancy lights on the panel lit up as my train went around the layout.
John


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John

I missed the occupancy issue, can you provide a little more detail on what is going on? Is it not working period or is it the failure to flash when occupied?

Jere Ingram

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Message From: Becky and John Kolberg bjkolberg at aol.comI spent a couple hours at the club today--mostly track cleaning.  I used two of my hard-pulling analog locos on the track-cleaning car train  The first time around on the freight line there were a number of spots where a single engine would have stalled due to dirty track and dirty wheels--the second engine was able to keep the train moving.  I had to clean the loco wheels after each round trip (also the cleaning cars).  By the fourth round trip the engine headlight seldom flickered, so the track was getting cleaner.  I know that several of you have been hand-scrubbing the tracks and running the track-cleaning train, so I am not sure what mechanism is re-depositing dirt on the tracks.  I ran the passenger line also with similar behavior.
My observation was the roller-car cleaners are worthless--at least there was no accumulation of gunk on the rollers.  The Masonite scrubbing cars did pick up gunk.  Frankly, I believe my locos picked up more gunk than any of the cars--of course they were leading the train.
As someone else noted, the block occupancy detector system is not functioning.
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