You'd have to key more than one thing to get that effect, particularly as I see you turned boldface off on the last word .
If you just went to 36pt in the Font Sizes, you get this.
Then turn on boldface for this.
But in every case, it's not exactly an accidental thing.
There is one thing that is effectively missing from the formatting tools in the Forum, though, and that is an easy way to revert to the normal settings from whatever weird formatting might be selected 'by accident'.
Programmers (and script-kiddie wannabees) think it's perfectly OK to provide a choice like Format/Formats/Block/Paragraph -- without any documentation or functional online help or manpages -- and then expect an older generation of railfans to figure it out like gamerz. All that's needed is a 'Normal' style choice, perhaps in the Format menu since the paragraph menu is so carefully hidden, but it would have to work across multiple kinds of modifications so the spam-in-a-can 'development environment' may not have the proper kinds of scripting tools for the kids to code it. Nonetheless, I think they should try.
Leo,
Yah keyed something as I was sending and thats what came out! Looks kinda LOUD!
Doc
Your font is all screwed up, Doc. ;)
Much easier to just leave it at the default setting, so that a surely unintended mistake such as that, won't happen.
doc
I think our best chance today of having train service in the US we can be truly proud of is the Texas Central / Japanese project between Dallas and Houston. Amtrak unfortunately carries the baggage of intractable politics.
To have some Norman Rockwellian train service, maybe Disney should be hired as the contractor. Otherwise, tacking private cars onto the end of trains seems to be the plausible way to offer elegant rail travel these days.
http://texascentral.com/
zardoz <snip> I would think there would be a market for a luxury train. Perhaps a nice circular route around the country over the course of a week or so. Of course, where could such a train be successfully operated, with all those freight trains to dodge? I'm fairly sure no Class 1 railroad would welcome such a train.
<snip> I would think there would be a market for a luxury train. Perhaps a nice circular route around the country over the course of a week or so.
Of course, where could such a train be successfully operated, with all those freight trains to dodge? I'm fairly sure no Class 1 railroad would welcome such a train.
I agree with all of the above posts. I just wonder why there are no "luxury" trains similar to the Rocky Mountaineer or the Canadian. The luxury service seems to be working north of the border. If people are willing to get on board a cruise liner with thousands of other vacationers crammed in, I would think there would be a market for a luxury train. Perhaps a nice circular route around the country over the course of a week or so.
The traditional competativeness statistics that I have read indicate that passenger trains are at their most competative at journeys of 100-500 miles. Freight rail is most competative at journeys of 500+ miles. Compare the average journey in Europe or Japan to that in the United States. America isn't well suited geographically for a national HSR network.
BaltACDThere is no collective will to have a great passenger rail system among the population.
isn't it economics and time. why take a train when it's cheaper or less time to travel by air.
we took the train on business from NJ to Washington, D.C because it was comparable in price and less time (when you consider security and other delays in the terminal).
greg - Philadelphia & Reading / Reading
Amtrak is more heavily involved with the government than the freight railroads. So any idea of change can take years of fighting just to get it on paper so that all sides can be happy. Also it would take a revolution to convince us to take a train over a car or to even flying there. The car gave us freedom to move whenever we want and I think that there is no going back, especially with the interstate system around.
It's different in Europe, not everywhere has the highways that we do so they take the train. The countries over there also put more money into their railroads.
Define great. America does run great trains. Maybe they're not the "name trains" as they were in the 50s, but great in their own right. Look at these massive commuter operations in Chicago, New York, Boston, Philadelphia.. the trains.. the whole system in fact.. is a fine piece of work, nothing short of great IMHO. The Amtrak folks are trying hard too and have made good progess in spite of the hurdles they face. Great is all around us for those of us who care to see it.
There is no collective will to have a great passenger rail system among the population.
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Because we (as a nation) don't want them.
We want our cars. We want to be there now. The idea of taking three days to travel from NYC to LA by train is so foreign to most that they wouldn't even consider it. We'd rather fly. Or, if it's under a certain distance, we'll drive.
If it cost as much to drive those 500 miles as it does to take the train - we might think about it.
That, and all we hear on the news is how Amtrak is a total waste of taxpayer money...
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We do. Freight trains.
Tom
A rather interesting (to me) article in the National Journal. Although it is a bit lengthy, the writer raised some rather interesting points.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/amtrak-acela-high-speed-trains-20150417
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