So, in my next step towards card cards, tonight I photographed 40 coal cars.  Then I had to crop the images, rename them to the RRID and save them in a bit mapped format (specfically DBID) and then bring up Access to manually enter each dbid photo into the database record for that car.

I wish there was an easier process.  (Oh and the railroad heralds are all already done and in a seperate record type referencially linked to the car records.)

I have an "extra" notebook computer I want to use exclusively for programming locomotives using JMRI/Spog II and Q Industries programmers.  I was playing around with it the other day and it is sooooooo slow! 

My question is this:  Will removing programs I will not use on this computer (I have 2 others) speed it up?  Is there a process to do this, such as remove the unwanted programs then do some kind of "refresh" to "re-align" everything to help speed it up?

You can tell from my terminology I am no computer geek.

As some of you who follow the On30 Line and Model Railroad Hobbyist discussion forums already know, I have decided to move on to another modeling challenge - after the end of 2014, the Estrella & Sonora Grande RR will be dismantled. Read more abouit this in my next post (to avoid wrapping a long entry on each page).