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Can you help with my University Course - Android/iOS Scale Conversion App?
Hi there. It's me again looking for help with my Open University course. This time it is part of the course that I am doing called - "Web, Cloud and Mobile Technologies"! As part of my last assignment (the mobile part - or Cell phone to the US), I have to propose a new app. The idea is that I compare it to other apps that do a similar thing and say where mine has differing functionality. I don't have to create the app, just write about the functions and show some "wire frames".
Cars, Computers, and QR Codes* - Part 3
Tired of this yet? 
I hope not. I'd like to get this basic background stuff nailed down and then get into the part where "Then magic happens."
(Link to Part 2: http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/29591)
IAIS MOW #52 resurrected
I have a maintenance of way truck that has been out of commission for several years and I decided to tinker with it to get it back running.
The brass model originally had grossly oversized wheels and I wanted to replace them with scale wheels. I found the appropriate parts off of an HO scale cement truck.
Sucessful LokSound (Rapido) install
Well, I just finished programming my first ESU LokSound decoder install. It is a LokSound Select with a sound file created and installed by Rapido Trains for an F unit. Rapido sells these at a great price and they include an iPhone 4 style speaker. I have to say it sounds amazing. I am installing this for a friend and he wanted it loud. When he heard my Tsunami sound equipped loco he immediately asked for more volume, so volume I gave him and this thing has it in spades.
Ferwood & Gulf RR "Heritage" Herald
To All: The Fernwood & Gulf RR (later Fernwood, Columbia & Gulf) was a line mergered into the Illinois Central RR. Today all it's trackage is abandoned. I intend to apply the herald to a freight car. Herald art work and photo by Elvin Howland. Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout.
Cars, Computers, and QR Codes* - Part 2
(Link to Part 1: http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/29580)
Mancos mine completed, glass windows
Another new blog post - this time with a ton of photos from my completed mine buildings for my town of Mancos; these are based on pair of Campbell kits. And also - photos and descriptions of how I learned to use glass for my windows.
I'll just include one photo here, but all the rest are my blog site:
http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2017/03/mancos-structures-and-real-glass.html
backdrop
I see that many who post here use 1/4" hardboard (Masonite) for backdrops. In my area (DeKalb, IL) 1/8" is readily available. Are there any argument for/against the thinner material? Are screws likely to tear out if countersunk? Thanks in advance.
Log in
Does anyone else here have a log-in issue?
For the past two weeks when I enter my password a little box appears that says "this connection is not secure, you account can be compromised"
Resin Casting with Two Part Molds
A couple years back [yikes, almost a decade!], I encountered a problem with a model where a single set of rear drive wheels was absent from the box. I wasn't so interested in the rest of the parts that were in the box at that time, but after doing more research over the years, I discovered that this vehicle which appeared to be 1:72 scale was actually the beginnings of a 1:87 M-123 kit bash using the M-25 10-ton chassis and an M-39 series cab. When further I found out that the M-39 chassis was introduced in 1951 and the M-123 truck was introduced in 1955,
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