Recent content by dwdean

How stupid can you get You know, that's got to be the stupidest thing that I've ever seen anyone do, and I'm seen a couple of real whoppers. A recent accident on the CSX track here made that even harder to watch (a kid and his dad were walking up the ROW and the kid was struck and killed by a...

I work for a software company that produces commerce software. One of the many things that we do is interface with various payment processors. This is really a fairly simple case. It is not "borderline" fraud, it is outright fraud to overcharge someone, or to charge someone for product...

UP Armor Yellow Hey Deano, Thanks. Been doing a little more than thinking about adding a Building America unit to my still very small roster. I've tracked down a couple of undecorated units and found prototypes to model (it took a while to figure out that UP actually does have AC4400's with...

With respect to XtrkCAD, yes, the interface is kludgy at best, but frankly it's the best free track designer out there. It took me a while to get the hang of it, but it does work (albeit not very gracefully at times.) If you haven't already, reading their tutorial does help, as does...

Kevin, Thanks, yes, I've seen that thread and a couple of others and I've joined the Yahoo group, and I think you're absolutely right, I could have done this without the book. However, I got very lucky about three weeks ago, I was killing time browsing the book shelf in my LHS and actually...

David, Yeah, I've went to a swap meet there last month, but haven't had a chance to go back. I do like the location, models on one hand with an active station right outside the door. I work in an office that's right next to those same tracks (except about 20 miles to the north). I think...

Great locos You know, since the first time I saw a UP decked out in the "Buidling America" scheme, I've thought it was just about the sharpest looking thing out there. Those look really fantastic. To bad not many of locos in that scheme are available (it seems they were pretty popular.) I'm...

I'd have to say the intermodal cars, but as those aren't listed as a choice I'm going to have to go with tankers.

Thanks for the input, and helping me realize that I'm not completely crazy. I'm still not entirely sure I've got the guts to take a saw to the boiler yet......

Greetings all, Yes, I'm building one of these beasts (OK, honestly, it's not all that bad.) I lucked out and actually found a copy of Jeff Johnston's book in a hobby shop for the original price of $17.95, and have almost recovered from the whiplash I gave myself getting my hands on the thing...

You know e-paw, at the moment I'd gladly trade you right about now....living in the tropics isn't all it's cracked up to be. I actually miss weather like that, of course we have "weather" here that I lament (hurricanes, summer heat that's in a word oppressive, and the like.) I guess being...

Hey dwight77, I'm on the east coast, Coral Springs. I've heard that there's a club in the area that meets a converted freight depot at one of the Tri-Rail stations, but haven't been able to really get any more info than that. Your club's web site is nice. I love the pictures of the LA...

Thanks all for the welcome and maybe will take some pictures and post them in an appropriate forum (when there's something to look at besides foamwork, can't really call it bench work as there's no bench ;).) Dan

Hello all from S. Florida! I stumbled on this forum a while back but have mostly been reading until now. I'm returning to model railroading (OK, what I used to do was less model and much more "railroading") after a good many years and having a blast. I'm primarily in HO, but I have located...