What does 3-2 observation car mean?
Thanks,
Dave
USAF (Retired)
The 3-2 refers ro the number of bedrooms and roommates the car has. Either one could be the 3 or the 2 dependent on the car builder and the railroad.
ndbprr possibly meant "roomettes" an "accommodation", vs. "roommates", as in guests.
If the question is specifically about the Walthers heavyweight observation car, it means 3 compartments and two drawing rooms. There is also a lounge.
Sleeping cars had a variety of accomodations. Number series like that are a sort of code describing them. Modelers have an interest because it also tends to describe the window arrangement. For heavyweight cars, that can be the key to figuring out what a car is.
A "12-1", an extremely common heavyweight car, has 12 sections and one drawing room.
The number code does extend into lightweight (streamline) cars. "10-6" is perhaps the most common code, there. It means 10 roomette and 6 bedroom (normally double bedrooms). Here, too, the window arrangement can tell you what a car is. Sometimes, in a shot of a whole train, you can look at the windows and tell what type of cars make up the train.
Ed
My stupid phone thinks it is smarter then what I type. Very frustrating when it changes stuff without even asking. Worse when it decides to change to some word I never even heard of before.
ndbprr My stupid phone thinks it is smarter then what I type. Very frustrating when it changes stuff without even asking. Worse when it decides to change to some word I never even heard of before.
I am one of the 17 people on the planet who doesn't have a "smart" phone. So my question is an uninformed one:
Isn't it possible to change "auto-correct" to "auto-suggest"?
That's what I did in Word. It now underlines spellings it thinks are wrong, but doesn't change them (grammar, too, I think). That was a change I had to make myself, after quickly becoming irritated with it doing it by itself.
Just curious,
CrApple and its current 'competition' chose to roll spelling check and correction into a common utility with limited 'user' customization or configuration options. Each release of iOS includes more weird, and to me usually pointlessly dysfunctional, changes in how its 'corrections' are implemented or what undocumented pressure touches or gestures provide particular options. In their defense they provide the 'suggested' edits in a separate bar that pops up away from the composition window, but requires that you shift foreground focus to the list of options and perhaps click on one that isn't their 'default' -- meanwhile in the latest version they have forgotten how to autocorrect most words with more than one typo; they just can't keep the apostrophe out of 'its' regardless how obvious the context; they start correcting only the letters typed after a word is being edited as if that were a whole separate word; they have gone back to the default of not allowing word correction by clicking within a word but removed the option to permit it; they shift the default capitalization at random exactly counter to my attempts to predict what they'll do... the list is long, and the implemented haptic improvements that were common knowledge as early as the mid-Nineties apparently getting fewer and fewer.
If I recall correctly, some computer browsers do in fact flag spelling and perceived grammatical errors using the same two-color discrimination that Microsoft Word did; that's a reasonable feature to enable no matter how the autocorrect and autotext features and conventions operate.
7j43k ndbprr My stupid phone thinks it is smarter then what I type. Very frustrating when it changes stuff without even asking. Worse when it decides to change to some word I never even heard of before. I am one of the 17 people on the planet who doesn't have a "smart" phone. So my question is an uninformed one:
You forgot to count me. It's 18 people. I had a smart phone once. It lasted less than a year, which is true for all three Samsung electronic devices I ever bought. Will never buy another. In all of that time, I downloaded one ap. After 6 months, the screen started to fade away. It started in one corner and worked its way across the screen until the phone became unusable a few months later. I went back to a flip phone and have never even considered getting another smart phone. I don't understand the reason for camera phones either. If I want to take pictures, I have a digital camera for that. What really amazes me is when I see people at a sporting event or a concert holding their smart phones in front of their faces. They pay all that money to attend a live event and then end up watching it on a small screen.
John-NYBW You forgot to count me. It's 18 people. I had a smart phone once.
You forgot to count me. It's 18 people. I had a smart phone once.
No. I got you; you're one of the 17.
Don't want to double count!
I must be number 15 or, 16 then!
I'll jump in here to tell you that I have had an IPhone for a couple of years now. In all honesty, I really don't know how to use most of its features. When someone calls me, a rare event, I usually end up hanging up on them without even being able to say "Hello"
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
tcwright973 I'll jump in here to tell you that I have had an IPhone for a couple of years now. In all honesty, I really don't know how to use most of its features. When someone calls me, a rare event, I usually end up hanging up on them without even being able to say "Hello"
I have a flip phone. It's never turned on. And I never give anyone the phone number. And I rarely take it anywhere--it's usually in a drawer.
Thus I never get those annoying phone calls.
And I only have to recharge it every couple of months.
7j34k wrote "I have a flip phone. It's never turned on. And I never give anyone the phone number. And I rarely take it anywhere--it's usually in a drawer. Thus I never get those annoying phone calls."
That's EXACTLY what I have and how I "use it", as well !
I kept within ear's reach of the phone for many years, waiting for the crew dispatcher's call back when I was on the extra list. Don't want to do that any more!
7j43k ndbprr My stupid phone thinks it is smarter then what I type. Very frustrating when it changes stuff without even asking. Worse when it decides to change to some word I never even heard of before. I am one of the 17 people on the planet who doesn't have a "smart" phone. So my question is an uninformed one: Isn't it possible to change "auto-correct" to "auto-suggest"? That's what I did in Word. It now underlines spellings it thinks are wrong, but doesn't change them (grammar, too, I think). That was a change I had to make myself, after quickly becoming irritated with it doing it by itself. Just curious, Ed
Did you count me? No smart phone here either.
Sheldon
ATLANTIC CENTRAL Did you count me? No smart phone here either. Sheldon
Yup.
Yawn the list!
I am very careful what I discuss on this thing. I have no idea who or where it informs big brother of anything I write. I am beginning to get justifiably paranoid about all tech today. I keep a very low profile and never signed up for any social media. I even turned off the tracking feature.
ndbprr I even turned off the tracking feature.
I even turned off the tracking feature.
ALL of them?
And then there's The Cloud.
I think I'll just buy another hard drive, thank you very much.