wchasr
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 | | 05/07/2008 12:38 PM |
| Oh crap! I didn't even think about the time difference! LOL.
I'm flirting with danger jsut having the screen up here at work! LOL.
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calenelson
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| | 05/07/2008 12:42 PM |
| | dang that nearly made me sick, it now appears I'm watching the train barn?....what a great freakin' web feed! | |
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Greg Elmassian
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| | 05/07/2008 1:54 PM |
| Watching now... about 30 cars and then things stop moving... he was pushing/guiding each container car by hand... maybe too much load... then after 30 cars went by, they stopped.... he rolled the cars back and forth, so obviously they were no longer connected to a locomotive...
I see the geeps, he was running 2 independently, so they have different addresses, so I assume they are consisting. What's the max number of locos in a Locolinc consist?
Looks like coupler troubles... what couplers are they using? (I'm guessing USAT, since all the locos and cars are USAT.. )
Looks like it is Rick himself, smoking a big cigar. (a man after my own heart!)
Oops, took the locos away after testing 2 of them. Ahh, 2 more geeps on the track. These 2 already consisted. OK, off the track.
2 more geeps on the track, testing...
Well, I don't think any records are going to be broken today...
Regards, Greg
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Semper Vaporo
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| | 05/07/2008 2:05 PM |
| Is anyone else able to understand the speach on the feed? All I get is a LOUD sylable and then some very quiet mumbling.
I think I caught part of a sentence where he gave a phone number (I think it began with a 3, but the rest of it was totally unintelligable) and the words, "Call me!". I also heard something about, "Be --ck -- --elve minut--." and the fellow speaking walk off the the left.
Sometimes, I think I hear a train rolling, but it is just a racious rattling... sounds very much like a pressed steel kitchen stool being shoved across a hardwood floor and somebody forgot to tighten any of the nuts and bolts that hold it together.
Maybe it is just my PC speakers (they blew out the other day and I am now using a set of MP-3 battery powered extension speakers plugged into the earphone socket).
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Mike Reilley
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| | 05/07/2008 2:14 PM |
| | Yes....the sound does break up some. Worse for me, the video stream seems to kill the cursor control tapping away. I can still use the buttons...but the tap function stops working. Weird.... | |
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lownote
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| | 05/07/2008 2:23 PM |
| I think he doesn't have enough operators--I heard him just now say something about looing for "eagle scouts" and talking baout kids getting out of school.
he's fiddling with the diesels
I think the German record holders are not worried today | |
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Greg Elmassian
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| | 05/07/2008 2:26 PM |
| Yep, sound "gain" is either mumble, dead quiet, or loud distorted.... he just walked through and said "wow, I'm up to 21 people"...
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lownote
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| | 05/07/2008 2:27 PM |
| also if you go to this like you can comment and sometimes get replies
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/worlds-longest-model-train
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calenelson
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| | 05/07/2008 2:31 PM |
| Greg on his website, Kadee is mentioned as coupler used?
cale | |
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Greg Elmassian
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| | 05/07/2008 2:37 PM |
| Thanks Cale... I need to read the whole site (oops!).
Sure seems to be spending all the time on locos... a bit of logistics keeping 44 locos all at full charge!
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lownote
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| | 05/07/2008 2:55 PM |
| | How do you keep 44 locos charged? 44 chargers? Or is there some way to link them? Just the space required alone is huge | |
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| | 05/07/2008 2:59 PM |
| Rick, if you are reading our post...a wireless Mic would be wonderful for those of us watching on the web!
thanks-keep it up!
"if we get 18 volunteers, we're gonna run this freakin' thing"
Cale | |
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| | 05/07/2008 3:05 PM |
| | I've been watching this on and off for a couple days, and it just seems pretty clear this is a crazy way to try to do it. 18 operators? It's just too many variables. One guy's not paying attention and boom, you're derailed. And 44 sets of batteries--what are the odds they'll all be fully charged? I think Greg has the right idea | |
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calenelson
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| | 05/07/2008 3:41 PM |
| | now there are dancing chicks on the screen........... | |
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calenelson
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| | 05/07/2008 3:46 PM |
| | "start rolling in about a minute and a half" | |
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Mike Reilley
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| | 05/07/2008 3:59 PM |
| | Did he say they had a fire in a locomotive??? | |
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Semper Vaporo
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| | 05/07/2008 3:59 PM |
| | I saw a long train of cars moving, and then the fellow came and stood in front of the camera and said a long speach that was totally unintellegable. What'd he say? | |
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Greg Elmassian
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| | 05/07/2008 4:02 PM |
| The heck with that stuff... where did the girl in the jeans and the green top go?
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calenelson
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| | 05/07/2008 4:05 PM |
| | Greg............ | |
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