Winning again!!
It is chilly this morning, in the mid 50'sF, as it has been for the last few days and will be for the next few days at least as Fall comes to the US. My tomato production has slowed down considerably, I am now picking about once every 4 days or so and even then only half a small container. I still only have one single hot pepper growing and it looks pretty pathetic, it is small green and looks like a mini bell pepper. I am afraid the cold weather is going to kill it off long before it turns into an adult 'Ghost' pepper.
The squirrels seems to have moved elsewhere for now, but I am guessing they will come back as other food sources dry up. My airsoft gun is ready for them though if they do and I still have over 2000 plastic pellets I can shoot at them before I have to order some more. I bought a jar of 5000 on sale for the price of 2000, so I have plenty, and they are biodegradable so it makes no difference how many I shoot as they will all disappear eventually.
The thread's dynamic brakes are taking hold nicely. I predict a smooth stop at our destination.
Good, I like smooth. We have 102 cars in this train so far. I have confidence in you. :-)
Cheers, Mike.
No, we don't have a roundhouse. I think there are long range plans for one, but they are very long range plans. Lots of other projects have higher priority. I think it would have to be on the other side of the creek, so one of those projects would be a bridge.
Equipment is stored in barns numbered 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, the steam shop, 10, and 11. 13 and 14 were supposed to be built this year, but the late spring and general apathy delayed the necessary track work and it's just happening now, so the latest I've heard is the barns will be built next spring. Equipment is also stored outdoors in the steam leads, yards 5, 13, and 14, in front of the barns, and anywhere else it will fit. Last winter, the main line in front of the station was full of rusty objects that had been moved out of the steam leads to shoot a TV show and not put back because they needed to do some track work.
I'm releasing the thread's air, but keeping the dynamics on. I expect the air to recharge before I need it again, so I'm not worried about "pissing it away."
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
No, we don't have a roundhouse. I think there are long range plans for one, but they are very long range plans. Lots of other projects have higher priority. I think it would have to be on the other side of the creek, so one of those projects would be a bridge.
Equipment is stored in barns numbered 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, the steam shop, 10, and 11. 13 and 14 were supposed to be built this year, but the late spring and general apathy delayed the necessary track work and it's just happening now, so the latest I've heard is the barns will be built next spring. Equipment is also stored outdoors in the steam leads, yards 5, 13, and 14, in front of the barns, and anywhere else it will fit. Last winter, the main line in front of the station was full of rusty objects that had been moved out of the steam leads to shoot a TV show and not put back because they needed to do some track work.
Our local effort has a short turntable, a long pit to drop the firebox contents into and several long sheds where all the renovation work is done. The lights and ding-dong have been re-instated after several decades at the road crossing going to the tunnel. The station itself has been renovated but keeping it's 1940's vintage appearance. There is also fencing and gates to keep some areas safe for and/or from wandering drunks et al. The other end of the line at Yarra Glen is a smaller affair, the station is looking wonderful again, and most of the bridging construction equipment and material is kept there. What was a big surprise was the installation of full booms and lights either side of a roundabout that sits right on the line crossing to the south of town, this was paid for by the local road works authority and not the rail trust.
What is quite definite is the ignition of interest by city folks to come up on the weekends ( a mere half hour drive from Melbourne's edge ) to ride the trains and spend money in the town. That came back to the rail restoration trust via local business contributions to do some more works ! Having said that, we don't need any more coffee shops in the main street .... about one third of outlets selling anything at all also offer a cappuccino etc. :-)
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I'm releasing the thread's air, but keeping the dynamics on. I expect the air to recharge before I need it again, so I'm not worried about "pissing it away."
Ah. I'll put my money on a Sunday arrival. :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Back to the railcar sorting. After some thought I reckon there is a good analogy with computation here. :-)
Effectively the marshaling yard with hump is a type of intelligent de-multiplexer. A single ordered stream of cars come to the crest and is then cut into fragments that are directed to one of the many forwarding ports, thus assembling further ordered streams. There is a separate stream of information incoming, that being the payload prescriptions which enters the control circuitry ( I include manual human activity in that label ). What is of special note is that the incoming train is gifted with energy - here gravitational potential proportional to the hump's height over the subsequent landscape - which is then spent by various means to achieve the disbursement. Indeed there is an entropy cost/increase in doing so. Also there is further status flagging, as it were, eg. when is a given train consist deemed to be valid and thus triggering a given stream to be gated out of the yard ? So I believe there is significant similarity with transistor logic gate arrangements and even more so if you zoom out and think of the rail network across larger scales. At that level entire trains could be seen as packets.
We have a turntable, but it has been sitting around rusting since I was little and never been installed in a pit so it can function. Last fall, as part of the TV shoot, they moved it from where it had been sitting to a different spot closer to where the current master plan calls for it to be installed.
We have numerous different vintage crossing signals in places where the streetcar line crosses the "streets" within the museum grounds, but curiously only crossbucks where the main line crosses public roads. However, that will change in the next year. Amtrak is going to start running on the parallel freight line, and that will require signals on that line (the two crossings in question are the only ones on that line that don't have some sort of signals already); our line being within close proximity, it will also need signals coordinated with the freight line's.
Humps can and often do not only put cars together into trains according to which way they will go from there, but into blocks for a common destination. Then multiple blocks can be strung together into a single train going the right direction, and instead of reswitching the whole train again at the next yard, they simply set out a block, then often pick up another block or two and continue on.
Peering through the thread's windshield, I see an Approach signal ahead. There will be no problem getting down to the prescribed speed by the time we reach it.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Does your museum have a
Does your museum have a roundhouse, as some do ?
Good, I like smooth. We have 102 cars in this train so far. I have confidence in you. :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Winning again!! It is chilly
Winning again!!
It is chilly this morning, in the mid 50'sF, as it has been for the last few days and will be for the next few days at least as Fall comes to the US. My tomato production has slowed down considerably, I am now picking about once every 4 days or so and even then only half a small container. I still only have one single hot pepper growing and it looks pretty pathetic, it is small green and looks like a mini bell pepper. I am afraid the cold weather is going to kill it off long before it turns into an adult 'Ghost' pepper.
The squirrels seems to have moved elsewhere for now, but I am guessing they will come back as other food sources dry up. My airsoft gun is ready for them though if they do and I still have over 2000 plastic pellets I can shoot at them before I have to order some more. I bought a jar of 5000 on sale for the price of 2000, so I have plenty, and they are biodegradable so it makes no difference how many I shoot as they will all disappear eventually.
RE: Does your museum have a
No, we don't have a roundhouse. I think there are long range plans for one, but they are very long range plans. Lots of other projects have higher priority. I think it would have to be on the other side of the creek, so one of those projects would be a bridge.
Equipment is stored in barns numbered 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, the steam shop, 10, and 11. 13 and 14 were supposed to be built this year, but the late spring and general apathy delayed the necessary track work and it's just happening now, so the latest I've heard is the barns will be built next spring. Equipment is also stored outdoors in the steam leads, yards 5, 13, and 14, in front of the barns, and anywhere else it will fit. Last winter, the main line in front of the station was full of rusty objects that had been moved out of the steam leads to shoot a TV show and not put back because they needed to do some track work.
I'm releasing the thread's air, but keeping the dynamics on. I expect the air to recharge before I need it again, so I'm not worried about "pissing it away."
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Good morning everyone. :-)
Good morning everyone. :-)
TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join SETI Refugees
RE: Good morning everyone.
Good evening!
RE: No, we don't have a
Our local effort has a short turntable, a long pit to drop the firebox contents into and several long sheds where all the renovation work is done. The lights and ding-dong have been re-instated after several decades at the road crossing going to the tunnel. The station itself has been renovated but keeping it's 1940's vintage appearance. There is also fencing and gates to keep some areas safe for and/or from wandering drunks et al. The other end of the line at Yarra Glen is a smaller affair, the station is looking wonderful again, and most of the bridging construction equipment and material is kept there. What was a big surprise was the installation of full booms and lights either side of a roundabout that sits right on the line crossing to the south of town, this was paid for by the local road works authority and not the rail trust.
What is quite definite is the ignition of interest by city folks to come up on the weekends ( a mere half hour drive from Melbourne's edge ) to ride the trains and spend money in the town. That came back to the rail restoration trust via local business contributions to do some more works ! Having said that, we don't need any more coffee shops in the main street .... about one third of outlets selling anything at all also offer a cappuccino etc. :-)
Ah. I'll put my money on a Sunday arrival. :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Posting before dinner.
Posting before dinner. :-)
Back at the top, and WINNING!!!!! :-)
TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join SETI Refugees
Back to the railcar sorting.
Back to the railcar sorting. After some thought I reckon there is a good analogy with computation here. :-)
Effectively the marshaling yard with hump is a type of intelligent de-multiplexer. A single ordered stream of cars come to the crest and is then cut into fragments that are directed to one of the many forwarding ports, thus assembling further ordered streams. There is a separate stream of information incoming, that being the payload prescriptions which enters the control circuitry ( I include manual human activity in that label ). What is of special note is that the incoming train is gifted with energy - here gravitational potential proportional to the hump's height over the subsequent landscape - which is then spent by various means to achieve the disbursement. Indeed there is an entropy cost/increase in doing so. Also there is further status flagging, as it were, eg. when is a given train consist deemed to be valid and thus triggering a given stream to be gated out of the yard ? So I believe there is significant similarity with transistor logic gate arrangements and even more so if you zoom out and think of the rail network across larger scales. At that level entire trains could be seen as packets.
Also if you have absolutely nothing better to do for eight minutes, then you can watch that 7+ km long iron ore train go past. Every now & then you'll see a diesel-electric (AC) unit embedded. Here's what the driver had to say.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Goodnight everyone. :-)
Goodnight everyone. :-)
TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join SETI Refugees
We have a turntable, but it
We have a turntable, but it has been sitting around rusting since I was little and never been installed in a pit so it can function. Last fall, as part of the TV shoot, they moved it from where it had been sitting to a different spot closer to where the current master plan calls for it to be installed.
We have numerous different vintage crossing signals in places where the streetcar line crosses the "streets" within the museum grounds, but curiously only crossbucks where the main line crosses public roads. However, that will change in the next year. Amtrak is going to start running on the parallel freight line, and that will require signals on that line (the two crossings in question are the only ones on that line that don't have some sort of signals already); our line being within close proximity, it will also need signals coordinated with the freight line's.
Humps can and often do not only put cars together into trains according to which way they will go from there, but into blocks for a common destination. Then multiple blocks can be strung together into a single train going the right direction, and instead of reswitching the whole train again at the next yard, they simply set out a block, then often pick up another block or two and continue on.
Peering through the thread's windshield, I see an Approach signal ahead. There will be no problem getting down to the prescribed speed by the time we reach it.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.