South of Dave it's a little warmer and high clouds are dimming the sun.  My stepson brought "Flu A" home from school Tuesday and has been in his bedroom almost all the time since. My wife and I are masking when we go near him and haven't felt symptoms yet.  Given how it knocked a teen down, I give it AVOID.

I touched up the rivets on the first side of my PRR flat car last night, hope to do the other side this afternoon. But first get a room for the Amherst Club show in West Springfield, MA.  I'll be at the Flying Yankee Association table in the Young Building on Sunday the 26th.

Thanks, Craig

Still hoping for an answer to my first question, I'll ask two related questions:

Do old threads get locked as soon as the "Do you want to update this old thread?" warning appears, or is there some time window (days? months?) where an update to the thread will be properly displayed?

Does that also unlock the thread?

On RR-Line, Ralph DeBlasi (large HO LV layout in South Jersey) did a long thread about signaling his layout using CMRI.  I did another signaling my HO B&M Eastern Route using commercial detectors, signal drivers, relays and homebrew diode/resistor logic. We both built our own signals using commercial parts like heads, platforms and ladders. As long as RR-Line survives, I don't feel compelled to move mine, but the Layout Electrical thread sounds good for content like that.

Good afternoon, all. My weather is Dave's, except a little warmer. My pavement has melted clear, now my lawn is working on it, still a good deal of green coming out from under the snow.  So far today I've renewed my license and dealt with a lot of email. Later a birthday dinner at a brewpub in Haverhill MA. We won't be out on the deck tonight, but in summer I watch MBTA commuters, Amtrak Downeasters and Pan Am (now CSX) freights cross the Merrimack River.

Good morning (still) all. My bit of the lower Merrimack Valley had bright sun for a while, now it's Cloudy Bright and attempting a snow squall.  With this wind and our four month drought, we're very lucky to not have fires of our own.  Heard there was one WSW of me yesterday, doesn't show today so I guess the FDs got it out.  After lunch I'm not turning the computer on again till there's model RR progress to report.

Rick, I have been able to upload photos using both the bar at the bottom of the regular Post window, and the little icon right of center on the top bar of both the regular and quick Post windows.

Good morning, all.  Dave and I usually share the same weather (he's about 20 miles N and farther inland).  I've done some town business this AM and read the news. Really glad the cold wind is keeping the usual suspects indoors; We've had a drought since late summer and any fires today would go almost as fast as around LA.  Time to turn this off; happy modeling!

I thought it was pretty obvious on the plans, but then again I've been the junior member of contest judging teams.

Good morning, all.  20s, partly cloudy and windy on the NH Seacoast.  I'm doing Internet stuff this morning, then a couple of errands. Mostly model RR this afternoon and evening.

Last night I studied my Archer and Micro-Mark rivet decals.  Archer didn't make the 6" rivet spacing the FM plans show, but Micro-Mark does.  MM's instructions suggest using  an acidic "decal setting solution" first, then a "decal solvent" after everything is in place..  I read this as Micro Set and Micro Sol, but I don't have either on hand, just Walthers Solvaset.  So I could try out the Internet's thinking that vinegar diluted 8:1 with water will substitute for Mico Set, or I could drive 30 miles to a hobby shop.  Anyone with experience or opinions?

AFAIK Joe has been an IT professional since before the creation of RR-Line.  His business hosts RR-Line. I believe RR-Line grew out of the long-gone Atlas Forum, which Joe may have been professionally involved with.  A quick search shows Snitz built around 2000-era M$ tools that M$ eventually abandoned, unmaintained since 2009 and lots of remotely exploitable vulnerabilities. I didn't see anything from Joe about how he chose vBulletin, just that the conversion involved considerable work.

Looking around, I see Modelersforum using Ezportal layered on top of Simple Machines Forum. This structure is aimed at hosting in the cloud, on Linux platforms using the Apache web server and the MySQL database (I used MySQL a lot in my last two jobs).  So the hosting company gets to keep the operating system and (probably Virtual) server clean, the Forum maintainer works in PHP and may never see a Linux shell prompt.  In general, Unix operating systems make much more efficient use of the computer (including disks and network) than M$ products, so that may be most of the performance difference I see between Modelersforum and Railroadline.

[Looing around further, vBulletin is also described as PHP using MariaDB or MySQL as the database.  So I can't say how Joe is hosting RR-Line.

Good morning, all.  Breakfast sounds nice but I'll stick to cereal & fruit.  It's overcast with temperatures in the teens F, --8 C here on the NH seacoast.  I've been working on Flying Yankee Association business (flyingyankee.org, we now own the B&M's 1935 Budd articulated streamliner, we're working on getting a roof over it).  Today's modeling will be applying decal rivets to my PRR flat project.

RR-Line has a number of active layout-building threads, with content ranging from carpentry to tracklaying to scenery/structures, plus wiring for control and signals.  Several threads on layout building have pretty much covered all the bases and gotten few posts this decade. In years past, Ralph DeBlasi documented CTC signaling his large LV layout using CMRI. I documented signaling my B&M Eastern Route with local logic.  I could move more of my threads the same way I did the first two. I'd ask Ralph before doing anything with his content. I can't ask contributors who've passed on, and I don't recall if the terms of use allow RR-Line management to authorize any further use.

I made PDF copies too. But I've moved two threads by copying the text and photos to this forum.  One I uploaded the photos from my picture management tool (Digikam, free). The other I used the Insert an Image button in the toolbar above the typing area and gave it the URL of the photo on the old site.  I haven't started my main layout thread yet; the title of this sub-forum is Layout Tours. I need to ask if this is the right place for Layout Construction.

True, the metal roofs in the White Mountains and inland Maine are also effective against ice dams.