Your shortline threads were good so I just wondered?
Or anyone else want to start us off with some informstion or ideas?
In my best Chris Tucker voice: j-mawn! j-mawn Lee! (I mean, Brakie!)
In all seriousness, I'd love to see an article like this from Brakie. In many ways I think it is more difficult to come up with a plausible regional that does not directly mimick another existing route in operation than a shortline.
We, that being a teenaged model railroader group called BARF (Boston Area Rail Fans), have merged our freelanced railroads to come up with a new regional system in New England called New England & Atlantic Transportation (NEAT). By resurrecting abandoned lines and connecting them to underutilized existing lines, we have formed a system that allows the Canadian railroads better access into New England and provides a true (Guilfraud doesn't count) competitor to the B&A. In this way we have justified a new regional line in one of the most oversaturated rail markets.
Aye, the crudeness. Since you are from Ohio, I thought I might mention that we are putting in place a car sharing program like that of:
http://www.bnsfchillisub.com/operations.htm
I think that those are the guy7s who do the Chilli Sub Modular layout at the train shows here locally... And I know they guys who they are talking about, I live in Springfield, Ohio, and I think they are talking about Cherry Valley Lines Model Railroad Club.... Good folks, all older guys, lots of experience in the hobby
I just thought... I haven't seen a post from Brakie for a while...
Are you still out there?
Hope you and yours are all well
Would like to see some more of your posts.
Dave
Guys,I will be happy to do a topic on Regionals..I will do this asap..
As a side note.
I flooded out during the "great" Bucyrus(Oh) flood of '07 and am slowly getting my life back together..I am currently using my daughters computer so,I check in as often as possible.I will be happy to get my own computer again.
I have seen floods on TV and never dreamt recovery is time consuming especially dealing with insurance companies that wants proof of everything you owned and a itemized list of every thing lost.. What was that about"No hassle claim forms"?
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
Well, Brakie, you know the old saying....into everyone's life..... I hope it wasn't too bad. I have had essentially flooded basements twice, both times due to excessive (whatever that means) rain and them dadburned window wells. The clean-up just isn't fun.
I hope you can restore yourself to normalcy really quickly.
-Crandell
Crandell said:Well, Brakie, you know the old saying....into everyone's life.....
Yeah,but 10" of rain?? Actually it was poor street drainage that cause my house to go Titanic.
It was bad..
BRAKIE wrote: Yeah,but 10" of rain?? ...It was bad..
Yeah,but 10" of rain?? ...
Holy.......!
selector wrote: BRAKIE wrote: Yeah,but 10" of rain?? ...It was bad.. Holy.......!
Holy......! is right, 10" is what we get in a year (and that includes snow). Hope it all works out for you.
Pathfinder wrote: selector wrote: BRAKIE wrote: Yeah,but 10" of rain?? ...It was bad.. Holy.......!Holy......! is right, 10" is what we get in a year (and that includes snow). Hope it all works out for you.
Ten inches is what we get in a COUPLE of years! As for plugged street drains, there was one that the residents kept bringing up to the Department of Public Works (which had also built a concrete wall across the natural drainage!) They kept getting told, "It's on our list of things to do."
Well, Ma Nature decided that a highly localized thunderstorm (1.5" in under an hour, then sunshine) was on HER list of things to do. The complainers, and their non-complaining neighbors, were given the wet carpet treatment (about 2-3 inches worth of wet at house floor level.) The local media (rightly) made a big thing of it, and the lawyers began circling around. I'm sure we haven't heard the last of this.
Saving the best for last - one of those homeowners tried to buy flood insurance and was told (by an insurance agent of highly questionable competence) that he couldn't get it because his house wasn't in a FEMA-identified flood zone! Say WHAT!!!
Brakie, I hope you and your insurer manage to work this out to your mutual satisfaction. Some years ago I was pleasantly surprised about how little hassle I got when claiming hail damage. Of course, I called my agent while the storm was in progress to let him know what was going on. (What was going on was the Nashville Tornado. We got the baseball-size hail out of the top of the supercell. A few miles away at my daughter's house - nothing.)
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Sorry to hear of your troubles Brakie. Hope it all gets sorted soon. No hurries on the thread. Is anyone looking at the drain owners for liability?
Hope things start to look up
Aw man, that stinks. Was your layout damaged?
The worst "my train room" (the basement) flood had was a puddle near the water heater. It was only about 3 feet round, so I'm not sure it was exactly a flood!
No hurry on the thread.