You could put an iPhone load in that car and then track it's movement using the GPS function. Don
Sent from my iPhone On Apr 19, 2011, at 8:13 PM, "mhrywest" <[email protected]> wrote: > Ah, you got me on this one. I like the idea of knowing about industries on > other people's layouts with the idea that I can "send" cars to interchange > points on my layout with the thought they are traveling somewhere, visiting > someone else's layout. Hard core operators are not interested in that much > story which is fine but that type of story is enjoyable to me. Some > commodities are more regional but even if the first commodity was regional, > the cars, particularly boxcars routed all around the country. I recall an > article that tracked a boxcar's trip crossing the country over and over > again. There was also an article in the Northern Pacific Railway Historical > Association magazine about a boxcar shortage that was caused because the NP > sent cars east loaded and the railroads would not send them back. It was > during the decline of the eastern roads prior to consolidation and so much of > their fleet was deadlined. In addition to buying rebuilt boxcars such as the > 37 AAR cars (Pacific Rail), the NP bought a number of the Pennsy round roof > style cars that originally were on the DT&I and other eastern roads. > Well anyway, with that in mind, I will be building a list of places to > interchange with. Why, my railroad even has a Spiral Hill hopper on it that > is in good enough shape to be used to haul sugar beets now that it is harvest > time. Can't say for sure how a two bay hopper got off line and to Minnesota > but it is not likely to get back east for interchange until after harvest. > Sorry for the interruption, you can get back to whatever you were really > talking about. > > Ken > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
