Our pic of the day today is from Roanoke, VA. I went to visit relatives in 2008 and went to downtown Roanoke to check out the shops. There was a bridge between two buildings from which you could watch the trains come and go. This pic is directed towards the shops and you can see [...]
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Defect Detectors, pic of the day
One of the things you will hear on RTP Railfan radio is defect detectors going off. On the CSX line at MP 168.3 there is a defect detector that my radio picks up. This transmission usually just transmits a “no defects” voice but sometimes you will hear a problem such as a hotbox defect or [...]
Raleigh CTC
I mentioned we went to Spencer NC to visit the NC Museum of Transportation. While there I came across the Raleigh CTC board for the CSX line that runs from Raleigh to Hamlet. How cool was that.
We often go walking near Bonsal and I know all these places up and down this line. Just to [...]
Spencer, NC Museum of Transportation
The other day my wife and I went to Spencer, NC to see the NC Museum of Transportation. I was amazed at all the things had had there, especially related to railroading. Many different types of engines and cars, all of which were being renovated. We spent 2 hours alone in the roundhouse and I [...]
Nice CSX Pic
A buddy of mine, Mike, sent me this picture along the old Southern line north of Raleigh, NC. Said he was wearing clothes that resembled police at the time so they slowed down to check him out but then went on when they realized he was just taking a picture. I wonder if those guys [...]
Learning HTML and CSS
I read an interesting article on Six Revisions about whether a designer should know HTML and CSS or not. One of the difficult things for me is to have the creativity to design a nice looking website. I’m more of a programmer than a designer but I still think that if you are developing web [...]
Updated RTP Railfan site
Did an update of the RTP Railfan site with a picture that has attachments. I might do a few of these over the next few weeks. Hopefully I can do some railfanning and get some new content. I would like to go to Spencer, NC and visit the NC Transportation Museum. That would probably have [...]
Well, its fall again…
You can tell because I don’t do anything with my webpages during the summer. Too much stuff going on outside. In the fall/winter I’m back indoors again because its dark outside so its back to webpage design. This year I’ve started the web design certificate program at Wake Tech so I hope it helps enhance [...]
Investing Theory and Luck
So I recently started to get back into picking stocks and obviously today was not the day to do it. I bought Tellabs this morning and it immediately crashed. What good luck I have.
Website Communities
Developing a website is a lot of work, and as they say “content is king.” It takes a lot of time to come up with this content and for one person this is difficult. This is even more true when you work a full time job and have a family. A good website I found [...]
