The Atlantic & Southern Saturday Report

[Judge]

Many thanks to all of you! I am going to spend some time today relearning the environment of this Forum.

OHE

[ACL1504]

Bill,

Happy to have you back keeping tabs on all the citizens in and around Tahope.

Tom

[GPdemayo]

Glad to see you back at it bill.....

[Judge]

Atlantic & Southern Saturday Report - 4-5-25

I am just getting used to the format on this forum.  I have quite a learning curve.  For some reason, when I select a font, a code appears.  The same with selecting size and color.  Tom and I tried to figure the problem out this morning but no luck.  Anybody out there have a suggestion. See the code above as an example.

Well, I shall stumble through this report today in hopes of getting my format problem solved.

The A&S Board of directors met promptly at 8:30 a.m.  New TCS WOW sound decoders have been installed in two of our ACL P5AA Pacifics and the result is amazing for two reasons:

(1)  The number of available whistles has significantly increased.  There are many more whistles from the U.S. and Canada as well as a few Banshees from the UK.  Most impressive is the whistle from Cass Shay number 6.  The whistle on that engine was originally mounted on an ACL Pacific, although I do not know if it was a P5A or a P5B.  You can hear it by accessing the website below.  I don't do facebook, but you can access the video without it.  I must tell you that the whistle on the TCS decoder is every bit as loud and clear as it is in the video.

https://www.facebook.com/CassScenicRailroad/videos/western-maryland-shay-no-6/961333268990983/

(2)  TCS has come up with a new chuffing sound they call "Chuffinity."  This improvement provides much more realistic sound than the boring four-chuff repetitive sounds on other decoders, including earlier TCS decoders.  The chuff varies with the weight of the train and the grade.  The chuff fades in and out just like a real steam engine and we were very impressed with the performance.  A low, soft chuff is heard when a light engine on level track makes a move and it picks up volume as the engine increases speed or starts to "work." 

We submitted two decoders to TCS a couple of weeks ago for repair/replacement.  TCS replaced them with the newest version of their decoders.  Tom installed them and the A & S GP7 runs like a top.  The other decoder was installed in one of the Pacifics mentioned earlier.

WE gave the newly repowered engines a spin around the layout and ran P5A 1559 (A Key Import from the 1970's) up the Ovalix to Summit.  It pulled thirteen freight cars and a brass caboose without difficulty.

Your reporter inspected and took possession of three C&O passenger cars for the purpose of installing HO size people in them.  The cars will be added to the C&O passenger train and replace some heavyweights in the consist.  The cars will be coupled behind our new FP7 A-B-A lash-up from Walthers.  TCS decoders are being installed at the TCS installation department and should be delivered soon.

I am going to skip the weekly story today in hopes of getting my format problem solved.  Chao for now.

[deemery]

It's a peculiarity of this forum that the quick reply window at the bottom of a thread works -differently- than the Reply button.  

Here's the process I'd suggest:  1.  Use the blue Reply button, and type in or paste (as UNformatted text) the comment.  2.  Then use the toolbar at the top of the text window to add mark-up (italics, underscore, etc.)  3.  Then use the Post button.   

Do NOT use the quick reply window at the bottom of the thread.

[jbvb]

In Quick Reply, I can successfully change the text displayed by clicking the buttons at the left of the top toolbar. The button goes from gray to white ^{and everything I type is displayed that way. _{I'm using Firefox set up to}} allow Javescript from modelersforum.com and ajax.googleapis.com  I can select some text and use any of those buttons to change how it's displayed.  When reposting my RR-Line threads, I used the Quote button by clicking it and pasting the text into the blank line (blue highlight) the Quote button created.

I haven't played with the Font Name or Font Size buttons, let's see: Times New Roman 7. Arial 4. At least with Firefox on Ubuntu Linux it seems straightforward.
 
Quick Reply is different from Reply, but the only difference I see is I can't add pictures.

When I use the Quick Edit button to fix a typo in a post of mine, I see the Forum software is inserting BBCode escapes into the text to do Bold, Italic, Quote etc. Looking at the raw BBCode might help understand why it isn't working for you, Judge.

[Jerry]

Seems there a lot of things going on at the A & S.

Bill thanks for the update.

I'm sure you will get the problem solved.

Jerry