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    Some photo help please...

    I use Helicon focus, the layering of many photos with different focus lengths is absolutely amazing... With a macro lens and about 15-20 shots of the exact same spot, and same exposure, just changing the focus length incrementally until all the depth of field is covered, I can literally include...
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    About Sedona fires

    Did they catch the arsonists? Hope they do, and throw the book at them!
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    A question of terminology...?

    Well.. leave off the 'way' or 'service' and call it OA&G Rail... I'm all for the idea of the Depression being less severe, or nearly non-existent. Makes my independently wealthy status even better, in your world... And shoot yeah... I'd ride that rail in a heartbeat. Absolutely beautiful...
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    A question of terminology...?

    I'd call it a rail service, and I like the second name, as Georgian Bay is so gorgeous... it conjures a magical holiday type mood, passengers would flock to ride those rails.. A doodlebug pulling a couple older heavyweights might be just the ticket for increasing tourist visits and revenues...
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    About Sedona fires

    Wildfire is a fact of nature, in most of the Western USA... having said that, human caused wildfires are heinous, particularly when injuries or damage to property occurs. I used to fight forest fires, as part of my job with the USFS... the worst was arson fires, set by 'firefighters' who...
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    What do you do?

    I was a timber beast/wildlife biologist for the US Forest Service for about 15 years, when I got blown off a mountainside in Colorado by a lightning strike. Went on (forced to) disability, taught myself how to use a computer and now am more or less retired with a digital camera, Photoshop and...
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    What is your favorite Steam Locomotive?

    CB&Q M-4 and M-4a Big, hauled anything and everything, and lasted for a long time on the easy grades of the prairies..
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    Take alook at this!

    N Gauger... while that is an excellent rule, 'netiquette' is a slightly different issue... i.e post your own work, here, or have permission to post anothers'... Publishing a work taken from The Gauge, in a periodical which claims its' own copyrights of said work, is literally copyright...
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    Take alook at this!

    I'm not an expert on copyright law, but I do know the basics... "once an idea, a concept, or design has been fixed into a tangible form (writing, publishing, electronic or not) it automatically becomes protected under US copyright law" Now, I am not advocating a lawsuit... but I do suggest...
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    Old forestry/logging videos.. public domain

    A few public domain videos are available for free download, from the Internet Archives website. The below link will take you to a list, click each title for another page to download, found on the left side of each individual titles' page...
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    Newbie (to this board)

    Hey ya'll.... was searching on the web for logging info, and suchlike, and found this place... I've been lurking for a solid week, but decided this is definitely my kinda forum! My brother and I are getting back into HO scale modeling after a long interlude, while we both attempted to make...