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Porters 2.0
Has anyone had any dealing with the new advertiser Porter 2.0? Seems like a lot of time needed on the phone with them to setup anything.
Thanks...
Right around the corner - the end of the 120 day challenge
Tick tock on the deadline. I hope that everyone that accepted the challenge is making progress!
Rick
Forums and Confusing newcomers to the hobby.
One of the big problems with forums is the authoritative postings of directly contradictory versions of important facts. 
Not that this isn't a problem with the Internet in general as well. And lately, even with a major printed MR magazine.
Track Geometry Unit
I recently made this track geometry unit to help me align my N scale code 55 track. I thought other people may be interested in it also as it works very well. I took an N scale truck and glued a nail through the bolster hole using CA glue. I then cut the nail shorter and drilled a hole (part way) in the circular level and made sure it fit on the nail with a snug fit.
iPad use on this site
On another thread, a fellow commented that his iPad screwed up the formatting of his post.
I am using an iPad for this post.
Here's how to get paragraph spacing.
The Safari version on the iPad doesn't support HTML editing.
When you are postng, press the INPUT FORMAT line below the posting window. Then select MESSAGING PLAIN TEXT.
Firefox 13.0.1 & MRH website issues
Recently I've started having problems viewing / navigating the MRH forums using Firefox 13.0.1 on my Windows XP PC. The main problems are pages not loading after clicking on the links or very slow performance. I used Firefox "Help" and it said delete the cookies & cashe which I did. After doing so I was able to move around the forums and see the postings; however pages were slow to display (3 - 5 seconds). I'm using a cable modem and the problems don't exist using IE or Google Chrome to navigate the MRH site.
What I have been missing.
Hobbyist Railroad Magazines Web Site that's what.
I have been receiving the Hobbyist Magazine since it started. I never ever check out it's web site until yesterday.
I will be playing catchup for a while going back and reading various forums some other content.
I think I'm going to enjoy this.
See ya
Switchman AKA: Ron
An Unfairy Tale / Shooting myself in the foot!
I've always been somewhat of a trouble maker and I did a little editorial on my website entitled "An Unfairy Tale". I didn't post the entire article here as I didn't want to pollute the forum; however, you can read it at:
http://richlawnrailroad.com/?page_id=527
You can post comments on my site if you wish, but let's please keep it civil! Thanks!
Rick
Summer Reruns - Don't you hate them?
Now that it's summer we all get to watch those wonderful reruns - or we could just work on our railroads! Anyway, it occurred to me that with the daily increase of "newbees" to the MRH forums I could rerun some of my old videos that they haven't seen.
For you guys (and girls) that have seen this you can "change the channel". 
Where the hobby definitely IS NOT DYING.
We just got back from the UK yesterday. Included in my carry-on were copies of the latest 3 months of Railway Modeler, the June issue of Hornby Magazine (name licensed to Ian Allan Publications by Hornby), an issue of Steam World, and an issue of Heritage Railway (deals with preservation news). I would have bought more, but some of these things weigh a significant percentage of their price in pounds.
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