Month: March 2006
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What a way to start the morning.
I got out of bed this morning to the sound of the weather radio…. a signs of things to come. At about 8:00 this morning, a rather nasty storm cell passed this morning with a major wind gust. The wind knocked down part of our fence… I called the wind damage in to the Weather…
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Drawing attention from the law
Especailly since 9/11, railfanning has ocassionally come under scrutiny from the police. There have been stories of Police bring the FBI in on railfans, confiscating film, cards and camera. For me, it wasn’t that much; however, today as I was railfanning the BNSF Emporia Sub near Ottawa, I did draw attention from a Franklin County…
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DCC, Part 2
I blogged a couple weeks ago about my new Digital Command Control system for my model railroad. I now have 3 more units wired up for DCC. The first unit is a Norfolk Southern C44-9W. I had tinkered with it for some time to get it running for DCC, but the first decoder got messed…