Monday was another step forward - first day rostered on as a driver in traffic - I had the display car. Most days a tram gets taken down to the gold mine to sit there and look pretty for most of the day. And now the duty to deliver and retrieve that tram is mine, 3 days a week.
Monday had tram 34 down for display tram, and I am reasonably sure that it was 34's first day out since it got the pantograph conversion. So I had the honour of it's first trip since the test run =)
It's certainly a bit different with the panto, obviously it's still the same tram, same handling characteristics, but I had to keep remembering to cut off earlier than usual for the section insulators. Plus, the tram has to sit out in the yard, partly because they're shit-scared that someone's going to flip the panto on the depot door. Until now, all the panto-equipped trams have had seperate accreditations attached to them, and now a 'normal' tram has one too...
So that was about two-half hours of my day.
The rest of the day was spent in the workshop, throwing wiring around under the pits of tram 610, which is my priority project (and now has a deadline =S ), and so myself and a new co-worker got grease all over us & the wiring hooking things up. But by the end of the day, we had a majority of round one wiring done, and on wed. I got to test it - and most of it worked!
So, that was Monday. Driving, getting filthy in the pits (you haven't really worked until you're disgusting after all =P ), getting clean again, and taking a tram home.
I loves my work =D
(yes, this was supposed to be posted on Monday, but I was too busy playing trams =P )
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