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Airstreamer · 10-07-2008

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Originally Posted by bobfunland

Yes, but how to attach them to the rail without them falling off? I've found that attaching little bit of chewing gum helps, but it seems that most of them fly off and disappear anyway.

Thermite?

Airstreamer · 10-07-2008

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Originally Posted by labrat78

Its a dirty little secret that most professional railroaders are closet foamers. I guess I am proof since I photograph the things on my days off. Yes, railroads have been at the forefront of technology, especially when it comes to communications. We ditched out line wire and telegraph in the early sixties and replaced them all with microwave towers, up and down the line. Since then we have upgraded those installations to digital, along with using fiber optic for a backup and recently finished installing WLAN for all the signal control points. The stuff is pretty much like a home or business router on steroids and acid at the same time. Most of it runs in the 900MHz band though for greater distance.

In 29 years I have seen it go from analog microwave to this and I wonder what it will be like when I retire in about a dozen years or so. Even the remote locomotives for the yard and the road, what we call distributed power, all runs the same way as a LAN over UHF radio. It wasn't this way thirty years ago.

Huh, isn't it amazing what you can do with 9600 baud over an encrypted FHSS 900MHz link?

beakmyn · 10-08-2008

2nd largest construction site in the world! At the peak there were over 15,000 contractors on site. When I got here in Aug there were about 10k. Now it's a lot less but still in the thousands. We may take Sunday off and go to Hiroshima. Taking the Shinkansen there. Osaka is nice but it gets boring when all you have to do is go to Namba or JR station. Namba is like a mini Tokyo downtown. They don't have Akihibara but they do have Den-Den town. A lot of electronics but the Wireless camera hunter was 650Y I can get it for 400Y on ebay.

There's lots of robot stuff at the Joshin's and some sweat "desktop lathes" if you're into that stuff.

It's been a good experiance. I wouldn't do it again, in Japan but Australia or some other place came up in a year or so I'd be tempted. I'd also bring the family over.

In case any is wondering Japan prices are on par with say, California. Most stuff is reasonable though. We only spend between $10-15 for dinner (without the U.S. portion size). The beer is good (that's important) we found an Irish pub, that has Guinness, Kilkenny and Blackthorn cider on tap (All $9.00 though). They also have really good food.

If anyone is interested in a debriefing let me know by PM. Time to go get some dinner.

labrat78 · 10-08-2008

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Originally Posted by Airstreamer

Huh, isn't it amazing what you can do with 9600 baud over an encrypted FHSS 900MHz link?

Oh Yes !

If they let me do it I would really do all their tower climbing for them. Heights don't bother me, but I still don't like to fly.

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beakmyn root\.workspace\.garbage. Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 4,805	2nd largest construction site in the world! At the peak there were over 15,000 contractors on site. When I got here in Aug there were about 10k. Now it's a lot less but still in the thousands. We may take Sunday off and go to Hiroshima. Taking the Shinkansen there. Osaka is nice but it gets boring when all you have to do is go to Namba or JR station. Namba is like a mini Tokyo downtown. They don't have Akihibara but they do have Den-Den town. A lot of electronics but the Wireless camera hunter was 650Y I can get it for 400Y on ebay. There's lots of robot stuff at the Joshin's and some sweat "desktop lathes" if you're into that stuff. It's been a good experiance. I wouldn't do it again, in Japan but Australia or some other place came up in a year or so I'd be tempted. I'd also bring the family over. In case any is wondering Japan prices are on par with say, California. Most stuff is reasonable though. We only spend between $10-15 for dinner (without the U.S. portion size). The beer is good (that's important) we found an Irish pub, that has Guinness, Kilkenny and Blackthorn cider on tap (All $9.00 though). They also have really good food. If anyone is interested in a debriefing let me know by PM. Time to go get some dinner. __________________ Daughter with arms inside shirt: "Daddy I'm not Armish" ┌──────────────────────────────┐ ╞ NS Icons Explained\|et hoc genus omne ╡ └──────────────────────────────┘

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