If we're talking class periods, my school has 51 min. periods w/ 6 mins. in between to walk to your next class. But on homeroom days, the class periods are usually 48 mins. w/ homeroom in between 2nd and 3rd period. On assembly schedule or early dismissal days (1st. wednesday of every month), the periods are even shorter.
Haven't done much on the alyout this week, jsut some scenery work.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Awesome Ty! Now I don't need to buy a calendar for 2010!
Alex
Yeah, I like that shot too. And since you requested, here's a WRS Calendar! Just follow the directions on the page to download your own!
Nice Ty! I like the photo gallery, that's the best part of any website! My favorite photo is still the night shot in the rain, with the headlight shining through the whole mess.
What's the next step Ty? I think with all the photos taken, WRS should produce a company calendar!
Yeah...that and the never-ending movement of it all - one thing lead right into the next. That was an interesting day...I was mostly on a combination autopilot / sugar high to keep myself awake while writing that post. The "Thud" came from my head hitting the keyboard - I hoped it would make more sense than the nonsense typed by my face.
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I updated my website to include a Photo Gallery...it includes most of the good photos I've taken of the railroad that are not elsewhere on the site.
I think the run-on was to stress all the running/walking he did, the least being me showing him the trainly stuff around town.
40 minute periods? We have 56 minute periods and 3 minutes to dart from one building to another. And days with double AP Bio... 2 hours of it! Blech! Actually I'm a lot happier with my English class this year than last year, but other than that its about the same other than getting last period off several days each week.
TrainManTy Wake up at 5:30 take shower eat breakfast DRIIIIVE to Alewife Station in rush hour traffic take the subway to Park Street WAAIIIT for a Lechmere train take the Green Line to Science Park eat snack attend EHI briefing SLOOOOW day working at the Museum of Science eat lunch @1:00 run to Charles/MGH station, take subway to Alewife miss bus by 5 minutes wait for another bus ride bus to Arlington Heights walk around and view local railroad sights walk 4 miles to Lexington Center get in car drive 40 miles home eat dinner drive to Worcester attend class drive home practice robotics for competition on Saturday wave goodbye to team and STOP TO BREATHE! Ahh!
Wake up at 5:30 take shower eat breakfast DRIIIIVE to Alewife Station in rush hour traffic take the subway to Park Street WAAIIIT for a Lechmere train take the Green Line to Science Park eat snack attend EHI briefing SLOOOOW day working at the Museum of Science eat lunch @1:00 run to Charles/MGH station, take subway to Alewife miss bus by 5 minutes wait for another bus ride bus to Arlington Heights walk around and view local railroad sights walk 4 miles to Lexington Center get in car drive 40 miles home eat dinner drive to Worcester attend class drive home practice robotics for competition on Saturday wave goodbye to team and STOP TO BREATHE! Ahh!
Huh?
I'm sure my English teacher would FLIP if she saw a run-on sentence like that. Today, she lectured us for 40 minutes on "the proper use of commas and avoiding sentences that make no sense..."And the worst part is, we have our double tomorrow. 80 minutes of who knows what crap... But at least it's a split double (good thing for B lunch, cause it goes 40, lunch (40), 40. Normally doubles are 83 minutes straight through, but if you get lucky, you can have a split double on Thursday and/or Friday.
On Fridays, I have double Algebra and then C lunch. We don't eat till 12:28 (6th period, so you have 6 periods [1,2,3,4,5,56{no, that's not a mistake, 56 really does exist...}, lunch)(that's really late when your regular scheduled lunch is A, which is at 11:02...), but then you only have 2 periods after lunch.And speaking of Friday and double Algebra, one of my best friends is transferring out on Friday. Tomorrow is my last class with her, double Theology. She was the my first friend in HS, cause we had basically every class together last year (other than people I already knew)...
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I'm done going! Here's what my day has been like - total distance traveled: 100+ miles. Zoom zoom zoom! Can't stop to breathe gotta go!
Remember kids, don't walk on train tracks! Tyler out! Thud! Zzzzzzz...
I'll be back to normal tomorrow.
Hey EVeryone
Sorry its been so long! Everyones photos were great.
Gotta go
Taylor
Bear Down!
ns3010Thanks! And I didn't realize that! I'm gonna play around with this a little more, and see what I can do.
Thanks! And I didn't realize that!
I'm gonna play around with this a little more, and see what I can do.
Sweet.
GG, love the grade crossing!
A couple pictures from today... SYRX Tank Car with light weathering.
Scratchbuilt Freight House. It's in need of a foundation and paint. The pieces of styrene in the corners are only for mocking it's height. The dock only has the braces installed in the portions not hidden by brush!
New Grade Crossing
Thnaks Joe. lol, awesome streak shot- Green bay Packer colors, lol.
Nice Sawyer! Now it doesn't just look like a circle anymore!
This came out cool. It was originally an accident, but then I re did it (on purpose this time) and got this. It was hard to time because my camera has a lot of shutter lag, so you have to push the button at just the right time, so it took many tries to get perfect.
Hey folks, finally posted some update pics. Here's one and the video link, the rest are in WPF.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjW2LCNhU9w
Guilford GuyThe original number on the model was CBQ 502, and the new one is BN 6242. Its ironic because the real CBQ 502 became BN 6242. I was unaware until after I had decalled it that the numbers corresponded like that.
Oh, now I get it. But now it sounds like "I picked some random number to renumber it to and it happened to be right!" Maybe you should just take the whole statement off the site...
GEC: Let us know if they do get on TV! (and if it's posted online too, post the link!)
I'm hoping my trains will end up on TV. My club was taking video for a TV spot, and the only trains being run on my club that night were mine. my only competition is some old footage from a few years ago.
THere is a good chance my large Conrails will be up, and maybe my Push-Pull NJ transit train.
Speaking of which, i've coaxed EPIC POWER from the ALP44 in the train. It used to only be able to handle about 5 cars on straight and level track. Now it can handle an 8 car (prototypical) train, and possibly more if the trucks were better (oiling only goes so far). When i say handle, i mean it can push an 8-car train all the way up our club's long 4 percent grade, all by itself. At the very worst, it slows down just a little. once its over the hill, its rocketing at 125 scale miles per hour (yeah, i know, above usual NJT runs, but its fun anyway).
I've modified my Amtrak and SEPTA AEM7s the same way, and they can handle the long trains. I haven't seen how many amtrak cars the amtrak will pull, but i'm thinking its going to need more weight. Considering a typical SEPTA push-pull is 6 cars, I should have no problem.
I've essentially added an ounce of weight in a small space on one end of the locomotive, and used that bullfrog snot stuff to give the engine traction (don't knock the snot until you try it).
its totally worth it, it gives the pulling power those units SHOULD have had.
Modeling Conrail, Amtrak and NJ DOT under the wires in New Jersey, July 1979.
Me likey!!!
...now modeling a real locomotive is considered irony? Or is the real CB&Q 502/BN 6242 not an SD24?
Oops, thanks, fixed that.
"Ironically the model, which was factory numbered 502, now wears the number 6242, the new number assigned to the real CB&Q 502 after the Burlington Northern merger."
Also added the WRS link! Now to run and hide again!
I like the new design, Alex! I do have a few thoughts, since you asked for them...
- The part on the BN section about the irony of BN's renumbering makes no sense at all. Hmm...CB&Q 502 was renumbered to BN 6242, and CB&Q 502's number was changed to BN 6242 after the merger! That's not irony...that's what you decaled on the locomotive! Perhaps you meant that CB&Q 6242 became BN 502?
Ironically this locomotive, formerly CBQ 502 wears the number 6242 which was CBQ 502's Burlington Northern number after the merger.
- Also, I'm excited that the WRS gets its own page! You should add a link to the WRS website like this. I link to your website from my locomotive roster page.
The White River Southern Railroad is one of of our oldest customers, having first done work for them in 2006.
Guilford Guyhttp://www.panamsouthern.com/I updated the website... Thoughts?
http://www.panamsouthern.com/
I updated the website... Thoughts?
looks professional to me GG, well done.
Sweet pic Tyler.
Well, more scenery work planned for the layout this weekend. I'll probably be making a trip to the LHS this weekend; need some sculptamold and woodland scenics grass (no fake fur around here)
TrainManTy Night photography - Winston Link and Gary Knapp-style! A whole bunch of really really BIG flash units going off as the train passes!
Night photography - Winston Link and Gary Knapp-style! A whole bunch of really really BIG flash units going off as the train passes!
Nice!!Actually, the parts between the branches are, for the most part, fine. The shadow of the trees is probably enough to not need any darkening.
Hey guys! Hope everyone is doing good.
Welcome to all the new guys!
Nothing special to report, CP GP7u is slowly comming along, I guess I should post photos. Decoder buisness is slow, but still active. I was thinkin' of making a website for the biz, kinda like GG has going on. (I like it BTW did you get my email?)
REALLY bright flash units!
I thought about Photoshopping the sky to darken it, but decided against it because I'd have to mess around with the sky showing through the tree branches...