@P&Slocal: I think this particular "cockpit" was somewhere in the $150 - $200 range, but that is just for the cockpit part (not the monitor, seat, wheel, pedals or computer). It is completely made out of PVC pipe from Lowe's. Yes, you can race just fine with a single monitor. That's what the majority of people race using. I don't have the big bucks to race triple-screens. The seat is from an old Honda Civic from a junk yard. I paid $40 for it. The monitor is a standard 24" LCD monitor. My computer is a Macbook Pro actually, and I race on the PC under Windows 7. My wheel and pedals are from a company called Fanatec. This particalar setup was around $350, but that was about 4 years ago, and I need to upgrade.
And I don't have the money at all for all those fancy montion cockpits. But some of my racing buddies do. No... I'm not jealous at all.
Now that the weather has warmed up here, I've been indulging one of my other passions, grilling. In fact just yesterday I got some NY strip steaks that were cut just right. I used a nice dry rub on them and grilled them over charcoal with hickory wood chips. Not to start a flame war (pun very much intended) when it comes to grilling, it's charcoal or nothing!
Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.
www.prr-nscale.blogspot.com
GP-9_Man11786when it comes to grilling, it's charcoal or nothing!Dinner
I don't know why, but I become violently ill after eating anything cooked on charcoal that was started with starter fluid. We did have an electric starter and then got lazy (old age) and went with Natural Gas plugged right into the house. The good thing about the Gas is we use it all year round as it heats up instantly even on the coldest days. And is great to use during our power failures.
Brent
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BATMAN GP-9_Man11786 when it comes to grilling, it's charcoal or nothing!Dinner I don't know why, but I become violently ill after eating anything cooked on charcoal that was started with starter fluid. We did have an electric starter and then got lazy (old age) and went with Natural Gas plugged right into the house. The good thing about the Gas is we use it all year round as it heats up instantly even on the coldest days. And is great to use during our power failures.
GP-9_Man11786 when it comes to grilling, it's charcoal or nothing!Dinner
Tracklayer
I'm interested in railroad hisroty and pasenger travel. I've just entered into the world of model trains through my research of a model in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum.
Not a model train in the typical sense, this is an over 2' wood model of an interior with fully functioning adjustable upholstered seats and sleeping berths. While I've tenously connected the model to a patent from 1869 ( not Pullman or Woodruff), I haven't been able to find out why this model would have been made (it's too large for a patent model and far too elaborate). A selling tool?? When did model train building begin as a hobby? Did the hobby of model making include larger wooden models of interiors in the 19th century?
Any of you history buffs have any ideas?? I'd really apprecaite any information you've got!
Wagner was another sleeping car design & they probably had their own patented features. Could your model be a salesman's demonstration model or an adverrtising prop? Scale models of railroad items have possibly been built for as long as we have had the big ones, but there's not much literature on the early efforts AFAIK. I believe a few toys and other models from the 1800's exist, but serious scale modeling didn't become popular till after 1900. Availability of electricity in the home made it possible to have primitive operating model railroads, but cost and availability of components probably restricted the hobby to those who were pretty well off, or who had special talents and skills. During the thirties the hobby became popular enough to support magazines like Model Railroader.
Riding my Harley (yes, it's an '86 Softail). Light carpentry (arthritis limits range of motion). Railfanning. Ex-WP. Ex-SP. Ex-SN. Ex-TS.
Mark
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