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As an NS conductor, I can confirm, the alerter alarm is the loudest beeping sound known to man. As you said, it could wake the dead. Another thing to note, at least on newer NS motors, the engineer has a countdown on his display as to when the alerter will begin to sound. If no action is taken...

You may think about looking into an IP Camera. Pretty much all you do is get it setup and either have it connect to your wireless, or you can connect it via a network cable. If you get one with POE (Power Over Ethernet) you can hook it to a network cable and not need to hook it to a power...

I was actually considering this very idea for my trip this summer from HIN to ESM. I just haven't put much thought into how to make it all work out yet. I'll be following this topic for sure and will make sure to throw any of my ideas here.

I went ahead and booked the trip (HIN-ESM) for a departure from HIN on June 26th and will be arriving back to HIN July 5th. I see that on the westbound venture the connection time between #51 and #7 will be 4hr 10min, though the connection time on the eastbound #8 to #50 will only be 1hr 50min...

Thanks for the reply! I was aware that Amtrak would put you up for the time you were stranded at a connection point. I wouldn't care a lot if I did miss a connection on the return; it's just the fact that the chances of having roomette accommodations would be slim on the train they did get you...

Planning to take a return trip back west to see Glacier National Park this summer. First time I had gone was in the summer of 2009 and you all were a valuable source of knowledge then as I predict you will be this time. Last time I took the Crescent from LYH-WAS, the Capital Limited from...

Stayed at the Izaak Walton on a trip in July 2009 with my at the time fiancee. Thinking of making plans for a return trip this summer with the now wife. I just have to figure out my finances since I lost my conductor job with NS a few months ago, though I have my previous job back again for the...

All Aboard for National Train Day! Museums celebrate Virginia’s Rail Heritage with exciting special events on May 8, 2010 (Virginia’s Rail Heritage Region) The three rail museums in Virginia’s Rail Heritage Region are teaming up on May 8, 2010 to provide special National Train Day activities...

I'm sure this has been asked before, and yes I have searched. :ph34r: I guess I'm just not using a good search word or phrase. Any who, as you have probably read before, I will be traveling from LYH to ESM starting July 17th. I will be taking AMTK-20 from LYH to WAS in coach class. From WAS...

Here is some reading about this subject.How Railroad Crossing Signals Work: Detection Circuits

In other words you can replay where you have been such as DeLorme does or just the trail during the session and not to save for later viewing?

I'll throw in my vote for the Asus 1000HE. I have gotten 7h 45m of battery life out of it so far without sacrificing much screen brightness. I love that thing! Bought mine from NewEgg.com when it first released.

I made the leap back on Twitter and thought I'd give it a second try since I see it everywhere now. I plan to Tweet' when I have chances to on my July cross country trip ;) http://twitter.com/str33t_fir3

If you have the funds and time to search, you can buy pretty much anything on the internet. :ph34r: :P

Just adding this for visual reference: http://www.brownieshostel.com/