WPMA-40 makes a pick up at Dutchman Foods.

Bruce

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Does anyone know what ever happened to the Atlas Automatic Signal systems that Atlas released several years ago? I thought they might be a good, easy way to have a signal system on my layout. However, now that I am about ready to install them they are nowhere to be found. Apparently they either did not work as planned or nobody was buying them.
Just wondering, thanks.

KT

I was on another website and saw a posting that the NMRA Facebook page is running a contest from February 1st through April 1st where you have to start with Dannen Feeds from Railroad kits which is $8.99 with free shipping (coupon code 'nmra') You can build the kit however you want, of course more bonus points for creativity and added features. For those wanting to play along check out the link:

https://www.facebook.com/NMRA.org/posts/...cation=ufi

Is it just offline for maintenance or a fallen flag?

There's a program called, "Strange Inheritance" on TV where they go to people to talk about and show their strange inheritances. Some are weird, like a zoo or circus, others are a real surprise, a painting or a rare car or coin collection that sells for over a million dollars. The one the other day was titled, "A million dollar train set", and was about a train layout and trains that a wife and her daughters inherited. It was a G scale layout and took up an entire 2000 square foot floor of their house.

That episode will run again this Thursday, 2-22, It shows up on FBN on DirectTV, but it could be different on other cables or satellite stations. If you're interested, you can do a search and find it.

SMS sets out some fly ash cars at Perch Cove Power Plant.

Bruce

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Some of you might have noticed that when you go to Big Blue trains forum, the web address now show it's a secure site (indicated either by a green lock or the word "Secure" on the address bar). The web site now has a secure SSL socket which means we can keep all your secret passwords and other personal identifiable information safer from hackers by encrypting the information being sent to and from the site. It won't change any functionality and you won't notice it being there. It's all done in the background like some computer voodoo.

We've also fixed the redirect issue (which has been an issue for years now) where the web address had to have the "/forum" on the end or you'd get a 404 error message. You should now be able to just type bigbluetrains.com and get to the site without that pesky 404 error message. Some of you might still see the "/forum", and I'm not sure why that is. It might depends on your browser or the fact that all the search engine still see that forum. I'm hoping this will clear itself out over time. For now It shouldn't cause any issues and if you want to try fixing it on your end you might try updating your bookmarks and see if that fixes the problem.

We purchased a new web hosting plan a few weeks ago which comes with new server storage space. At some point, we are going to have to migrate all our stuff over to the new server space. Ideally, this will be done over a weekend to reduce down time and we'll do this with plenty of notice before hand.

And finally, there is a motion to update our forum software. The software we are currently, phpBB, is older technology and there some other things out there that are more current and easily manageable on the administrator's end. We've also talked about the addressing the waning membership numbers and think that possibly incorporating and integrating other social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter might bring in some new members. The newer software can do this integration much smoother.

We'll keep you updated as thing progress.

I knew none of you would remember. 'Nuf said.

Had a lot of snow yesterday. Went to town after it stopped, and on the way home stopped on the back road to allow 25 or so elk to cross the road. One buck and his extended harem.

Down the road half-a-mile and were treated to the bizarre sight of at fifty turkeys perched in the tops of three trees for the night - bizarre because the trees are leafless and bare except for the large black blobs of the turkeys.

One of many reasons we love this part of the country.