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[Keep It Rusty]

Atlantic & Southern Saturday Report

I am still mystified as to why I cannot change font size or type and font color on this forum.

As seen above, I edited your post using the normal tools at any user's disposal and could change font type, color and size just fine. Can you confirm you are using the toolset found to the right of the alignment tools in the menu to do so? See attached photo for the tools themselves.

[jbvb]

I wonder if the Judge's normal browser is set up to block some or all of the Javascript implementing the editor.  Judge, please try typing italic in as regular text?

[jbvb]

if I type '[' 'i' ']' that makes the text italic until I type '[' '/' 'i' ']' to close the BB code. italic text added using Quick Edit.

[jbvb]

some bold text done by typing the BB code into the regular editor.

[deemery]

If Hizzoner is composing his narrations in something like MS Word with mark-up, and then trying to paste into the window here, that might explain why the formatting doesn't survive the paste operation.  

So I think the right way is to do straight text (no formatting) off-line, then add the formatting to the text once it's pasted here.  (That's probably easier to learn than mark-up, particularly with the various ways that typos can mess up mark-up.)

dave

[Judge]

I copied and pasted Word text successfully in the past. 

I am writing this text like I normally would do and will attempt to change the font, font size, and color.

I typed the text, selected it and attempted to make the changes.  Still no luck.  I will study Rusty's response and try again.

[Judge]

Rusty - I am using the normal tool set on the Forum tool bar for font, color and size.

[deemery]

I copied and pasted Word text successfully in the past. 

I am writing this text like I normally would do and will attempt to change the font, font size, and color.

I typed the text, selected it and attempted to make the changes.  Still no luck.  I will study Rusty's response and try again.

Well, the last sentence is in a different font, or at least font size, than the previous two sentences.

dave

[Jerry]

Bill is there any hope this will come to life again???

Jerry

[Judge]

Bill is there any hope this will come to life again???

Jerry

Jerry,

I hope to have something soon to read.

Bill

[deemery]

Bill is there any hope this will come to life again???

Jerry

Jerry,

I hope to have something soon to read.

Bill

I couldn't pick just one:  https://tenor.com/search/yes-gifs  

dave

[Judge]

Bill is there any hope this will come to life again???

Jerry

Jerry,

I hope to have something soon to read.

Bill

I couldn't pick just one:  https://tenor.com/search/yes-gifs 

dave

Dave,

Thanks, that is funny.

Bill

[Jerry]

Now that's good to hear Bill!! 

Funny Dave!

Jerry

[Judge]

Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! 

The Atlantic & Southern Saturday Report is back in business. 

Your reporter was graced with the presence of the A&S CEO this morning for a refresher course on how to navigate this complicated forum.  It has been many months since your reporter accessed the Forum due to strange problems of format, which somehow seems to have worked out.

Yesterday, September 6, 2025, was a regular session of the Board of Directors of the Atlantic & Southern Railroad.  Curt Webb joined the fun later in the morning.

The mission for the morning was to satisfy curiosity about the different actual mph speed of a USRA 2-10-2 as compared to a USRA 4-5-2.  We ran both engines through our ASTRAK speedometer and found out that speed step 25 and speed step 40 really produced differences in actual mph speed due to the smaller drivers on the 2-10-2.  That result was expected but it was fun to verify it.

BTW, the ACL 2-10-2 was acquired from Howard Zane about ten years ago when we visited his layout on our way to Scranton, Pennsylvania.  Howard replaced the USRA tender on the locomotive with a Vanderbilt tender, which is "close enough" to the real thing.

The 2-10-2 pulls a long string of freight cars without difficulty.  We were about to see how many cars it could pull up the 1 degree grade on the Ovalix when Curt showed up.  Naturally, we yielded to our guest and put him in the engineer's seat of the Shark powered coal train.  Curt likes to run them slow and those sharks lugged the train in style.  I am suer those Baldwin diesels were slinging oil all over the engine rooms.

There was a short run of the SAL Q-3 Micado.  Only a railroader could love that homely face.

Our future plan is to replace the outdated version 4 TCS decoders in our Micados and the 2-10-2 with the latest version of WOW Sound.  A new feature called "chuffinity" makes the chuff noise on steamers sound much more prototypical.  WE have been playing with adjusting the sound.  When you close the throttle, the engine moves into drift mode and rod clank is heard as the engine slowly comes to a stop.  One outstanding addition to the numerous whistle choices on the new decoders is the whistle of the Cass #4 Shay whistle.  WE like it because it was originally mounted on an Atlantic Coast Line locomotive.

We are going to be in recess until October 4 due to previous engagements.  However, your reporter will try to publish a story about the "goings on" with the A & S next Saturday.

[ACL1504]

Oyez,

We are back to the stories.

Enjoyed the morning Bill and happy we figured it out.

Tom