In the late 1800's old Henry Bierbauer built a brewery in the town of New Lisbon, Wis. A few years later he built himself a mansion. He must of been a real railfan too because he built his great house right next to the Milwaukee Road mainline. All the original pictures of the house are real fuzzy and hard to see. I did find one from about 5 years ago, the house was in such bad shape the town wanted to tear it down Here is the picture.
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Two years ago someone bought the property and with the help of state grants restored the house to what it was like when it was new, it took two years to do.
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just to the right of the house are the tracks, he must of had a great view from the tower in both directions.
The windows and doors are on order from Tichy and I have to order the brick sheet from RustyStumps. As soon as it arrives I will be starting, this is the last structure build for the town of New Lisbon.
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A great looking house and a lot of history! ;D ;D ;D
Just what a model railroad needs - congrats on taking on the building of this piece of history!
Andy,
Nice house and great history! I'm looking forward to you posting the building thread.
Tom ;D
This will be a real nice build - looking forward to watching your progress.
Tichy came through with the windows and doors.
now just waiting for my bricks.
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Fun objective.
Thanx
Bob
I finally got enough extra cash to get back to this. The walls a cut from Rusty Stumps 1/32 thick brick sheet.
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a close up of the bricks.
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I gave the walls a shot of gray primer before cutting.
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Main walls all laid out.
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Andy,
I have been by that house a few times 6-7 years ago. Good to see it was saved.
Larry
Lags, it was in really sad shape but whoever reworked knew what they were doing.
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Why don't any of the photos show in this thread anymore?
Sounds interesting but...............
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Yeah, where did the pics all go? Did you delete any of the pics from your gallery? That will do it! I did that once, thinking they were in the thread, it would be okay to take them out of the gallery.
Had to go back in and replace every pic I deleted.
Dave HWCRR
Seattle
The site I had these and all my pictures went down and took them all with it. Ten years of stuff gone, oh well time to either quit or start over.
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Quote from: ak-milw on September 23, 2014, 11:15:40 PM
The site I had these and all my pictures went down and took them all with it. Ten years of stuff gone, oh well time to either quit or start over.
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That's a shame!
But at the price of disk drives these days, it's worth having at least one local copy of anything important. I have 4 copies of my photos and other important stuff. Primary storage is on a RAID multiple disk system (RAID5, if one disk dies, the data survives). There's a backup (Apple TimeMachine) for that RAID, including the ability to recover if I accidentally delete/screw something up. A third copy is stored on a disk drive connected to another machine (so failure of the primary machine should be survivable.) And every 3 months or so I back everything up to an external disk drive that's stored at a friend's house.
dave
All sounds great to me Dave, except I haven't a clue to what you just said. I am one of those people that are glad just to get the computer on, took me two years to figure out how to load pictures. Guess I will just start over. I will have to check on one of the photo uploading sites and see if I can figure one of them out. Last time I tried I lost a bunch of pictures, couldn't figure out how to get them in.
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Quote from: ak-milw on September 24, 2014, 07:57:04 PM
All sounds great to me Dave, except I haven't a clue to what you just said. I am one of those people that are glad just to get the computer on, took me two years to figure out how to load pictures. Guess I will just start over. I will have to check on one of the photo uploading sites and see if I can figure one of them out. Last time I tried I lost a bunch of pictures, couldn't figure out how to get them in.
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OK. The simple solution is to buy an external USB hard drive.
Every time you think of it, and before you delete any photos, plug that drive into your computer and copy your important files to that external drive. Then unplug it and put it in 'a safe place'.
dave
Thanks Dave, I will look into it.
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The other simple alternative is to sign up for a cloud backup service:
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/maintenance/tp/online_backup_services.htm
dave (who doesn't trust any cloud but his own :-)
Dave, I was glad to see your suggestion!
I've been thinking about this - I've previously backed up weekly on DVDs, but it has become
too time consuming!
I'm now trying to decide between WD and Seagate external USB drives.
They're both less than a hundred dollars!
I've downloaded their on-line user manuals to try to help my decision, but any
suggestions from you would be appreciated!
WD, not Seagate!!! I had 4 of 6 Seagate drives fail within 18 months, and swore I'd never buy another.
dave
Quote from: deemery on September 25, 2014, 08:57:41 PM
WD, not Seagate!!! I had 4 of 6 Seagate drives fail within 18 months, and swore I'd never buy another.
dave
Thanks, Dave!
A user that you trust recommendations go to the top of the list!!
This is definitely way off-topic for a scratchbuild, but I've had enough pre-packaged external drives fail that I get the idea that the vendors buy "sweepies" grade hard drives, assuming they'll survive to the end of the warranty because they won't be used a lot. So I bought a Rosewill enclosure, empty, and a Western Digital "Caviar" server-grade drive to put in it.
Quote from: jbvb on September 27, 2014, 08:26:10 AM
This is definitely way off-topic for a scratchbuild, but I've had enough pre-packaged external drives fail that I get the idea that the vendors buy "sweepies" grade hard drives, assuming they'll survive to the end of the warranty because they won't be used a lot. So I bought a Rosewill enclosure, empty, and a Western Digital "Caviar" server-grade drive to put in it.
There have been some great studies of disk drive reliability "in the wild" and it doesn't look like "server grade" drives are worth the significant extra expense. Drives tend to fail in the first couple of months, or run reliably for several years before starting to fail of 'old age'. I think the better strategy is to buy consumer grade/cheap drives, and plan to replace them every 3 years.
dave