A day at Rocks by Rail Museum today with me reunited with the lawn mower for most of the day making the place look neat for Sunday's Driver for a Fiver day. It will be one of the diesel Sentinel locomotives on duty and we have a choice of two. Either Betty or Jean. However it is feasible that Graham who has been off duty with various issues for some months now will be back in operation as well.
The guys who maintain and repair these locomotives certainly have a challenge so it is a good job they know what they are doing. It is one thing working on the engine but when you start with wiring that is another thing. Take Betty for example.
This is what her cab looks like with a clear operating control panel which looks reasonably simple.
This is Graham.
Graham's control panel is undergoing maintenance and with the cosmetic covers removed and things opened up, it shows the real complexity of what makes these locomotives work. Rather the guys dealing with this then me! It just looks like a mass of spaghetti to my untrained eye! Hopefully though it will be up and running this Sunday.
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