Hi Gang, Been a long long time since I've been in here. Lots of changes.
What's up with having to have posts approved by a moderator???
Things have changed around the forum (some for good, some for not so good).
Moderators come and go (and sometimes act) like fresh-out-of-college Trainmasters.
They have to make sure you're not some desperado, out trying to stir up trouble.
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
Chad stir up trouble? I've only got one question...
Did you bring the popcorn machine, Chad?
-ChrisWest Chicago, ILChristopher May Fine Art Photography"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration." ~Ansel Adams
Heck, I smooth forgot about the popcorn machine....looks like it just needs a couple inches of dust knocked of it...
Hi Zar, Murph.
Trouble???? nahhhh. Looks like one of the mods let the troll back in for that.
Murph, I think by the time the last batch of moderators left town, they had become desperados.
Welcome back, Chad! I know one of our moderators, and will give you a character reference...Hey, Dan! Chad's a character!
I just noticed that you put an initial in your name--they think you're a newbie.
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
From time to time spammers use bots to post advertising or other unwelcome stuff on lots of forums, so new posters need the moderators to check the first few posts. Once you are known to be a human being with no nefarious intentions your posts will no longer have to be approved.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
Hi Carl, good to see you. I'm still trying to get out there and visit you and Pat someday. I got laid off over a year ago and haven't been able to afford it. That's about to change though as I just accepted an offer for a job, another traveling job, but this time I'll be flying around the country instead of driving around in the west.(might have to start the "were is its again). Mabee I'll get lucky and they'll send me out there.
Oh, and thanks for the good word
Hi Dave,
I guess it's just me because I couldn't activate my old act. and had to sign up again. Makes sense
ATTN MODERATOR,
Is there some way to use my old account? (chad thomas) My email has changed and I can't get my password. The system still recognizes it's there.
Hi, Chad - welcome back !
Did you ever get back to the location where a UP freight train collapsed an old ex-SP through truss bridge over the Humboldt River 3 - 4 years back ? I think it was southwest of Elko, NV, if I recall correctly - it was part of the paired directional running over the former SP and WP, and one of those tracks had a moderately long tunnel right nearby. Last we saw or heard, the UP had installed new concrete caissons for the piers, and was about to install a pre-cast concrete bridge on them.
- Paul North.
Hi Paul,
No, I have not been back since. It was in Palisade Canyon. I80 avoids the canyon and it's about a 15 mile detour to get in there and I haven't had the time the few times I have gone through there. I don't work for the company I was back then so I have not traveled much this last year. I did go by last month, but I was headded for New Hampshire and had a long way to go. there were lots of places I would have liked to check out on that trip but time didn't permit. I did take the time to stop by Baily yard in North Platte and check out the Golden Spike Tower, a MUST SEE for any railfan!!!!!!
chad s thomas ATTN MODERATOR, Is there some way to use my old account? (chad thomas) My email has changed and I can't get my password. The system still recognizes it's there.
Welcome back!
Dan
Hi Dan, Thanks, I just got an e-mail that I am no longer being moderated
chad s thomas Hi Dan, Thanks, I just got an e-mail that I am no longer being moderated
Welcome back, Chad.
Johnny
Deggesty chad s thomas Hi Dan, Thanks, I just got an e-mail that I am no longer being moderated Oh, you are going to be immoderate now? Welcome back, Chad.
Hi Chad!!
There has been some funny things going on with the forum software lately it looks like as well, which is making for an interesting time here for us newbies....
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
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Hey All,
New here to this forum just looking for ideas for my next layout. I currently model in HO, O, and N scale. My next layout, I am planning on making a Polar Express layout with scenes from the movie. I got back into trains with my oldest boy when he was about a year or so old. Curse that Thomas, he's cost me a lot of money over the last three years.
Good to hear you're going to be back, Moderate or immoderate,
Nice to see some of the folks are drifting back to the Forum
You and your popcorn popper machine have been misssed.
Phoebe VetFrom time to time spammers use bots to post advertising or other unwelcome stuff on lots of forums, so new posters need the moderators to check the first few posts.
It is a good thing they do. On anther forum I follow, earlier this month, there was a new thread started with a seemingly appropriate, to the topic, single sentence opening line, that seemed like it may have been written by someone who's first language was not English, but certainly not bad enough to raise suspicion. I was "this close" to hitting a link, when I carefully read the link through and realized I could have bought the farm with some type of virus or malware. It struck me that the bad guys are getting altogether too sophisticated.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
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chevyiinova Hey All, New here to this forum just looking for ideas for my next layout. I currently model in HO, O, and N scale. My next layout, I am planning on making a Polar Express layout with scenes from the movie. I got back into trains with my oldest boy when he was about a year or so old. Curse that Thomas, he's cost me a lot of money over the last three years.
Welcome Here ! But I might offer a suggestion. The subject on this particular Forum is generally about things concerning 12 inch to 1 foot gauge of railroading. Might suggest your interests in modeling, and specifically layouts might be better served on the Model Railroader Forum. You are certainly welcome here, but as I said, your time, and interests might be better used as suggested!
About the moderation of 'newcomer's thing, the first group of mods appointed by Bergie five years ago, almost, pleaded with trains.com management to allow us to screen the first few posts to ensure the newbie was not a troll or spam, etc. It was a dead-simple solution to one particular outlier in the list of 'bad apples', for want of a better term. This person was a most persistent troll who frequented the model forum. Especially on weekends, he would post the most vile personal attacks, using the usual get-arounds to the language filter, and did so with impunity. We would know to be on line and prepared to delete hundreds of filthy messages...and I am not kidding.
The management agreed, and that is the legacy you see today. The policy, loosely, was to scrutinize the first four or five posts, wait for some sort of pattern to the first few exchanges to develop, and then to 'relent' and pass the person on to the general membership unfettered. Our secondary defence was that we could see the IP addresses of the newcomers and their emails, which the two or three worst bad apples couldn't hide from us. Between this one troll's penchant for creative but revealing choices of user-names, his IP, and our ability to notice familiar posting content, we got the upper hand.
It is generally safer and more sensible to put people on probation until we can establish that they will fit in well.
Crandell
What were you being moderated with? Light water? Heavy water? Graphite? Beryllium?
Anyway, good to see you back.
- Erik
selector It is generally safer and more sensible to put people on probation until we can establish that they will fit in well.
And yet I'm allowed to post.
The opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer, any other railroad, company, or person.
zugmann selector It is generally safer and more sensible to put people on probation until we can establish that they will fit in well. And yet I'm allowed to post.
What makes you think you are allowed to post?
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
I'm wearing my posting hat.
Wish I had a posting hat!
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