The late great John Allen had a stegosaurusranch on the: Gorre and Daphetid Railroad From: http://www.gdlines.com/ This is a must see site.
Red skies and giant chairs. they only show up in photos too. This is actually a fine detailed layout with mountains, trees, etc, but shows up like this in photos. very odd
Steve, that is a fantastic website. It brought back alot of memories and the occasional tear. As I remember is was only a very short time after Johns death that the house caught fire (some suspected arson) and everything but a very few pieces survived. I have several of the old back issues of MR that contained Johns work. And who could ever forget Emma. Thanks for the heads up.
Not on my layout, but in my office...(sort of) My waveguide isn't 1 mile long either - we manage .98C in only 2.2meters of waveguide where that mile long waveguide squeeks out .99C
Pete, The only place I know of that has a Linear Accelerator with a waveguide that long is Stanford University. It is one mile long. This large of a linac is used obviously only for research. They can manage to get their electrons travelling down the waveguide at .99C (99% of C - the speed of light) The Linear Accelerators I work on are clinical machines used to treat cancer patients with Radiation. Basically electrons travel down this waveguide extremely fast and get slammed into a piece of tungsten - out comes very high energy photon x-ray. Sorry to take this thread off topic...
Perhaps no further explanation necessary? Well, as long as we're on linear accelerators and aliens....
Sheldon, Thanks! I'm familiar with the Stanford facility--Sidney Drell? It's only a little off-topic. Many of the commissioning and decommissioning ceremonies for these type of facilities have used the rails to transport the rather large containment vessels to the site, or back to a dump. I see Randy's doing his own vision of the Iditarod! I'm busting a gut!
Well, a long while ago, we had a discussion about wiring the frog of a turnout for DCC, which led to my interpretation of a wired frog:
No possible explanation on why a gold Chessie 50th Anniversary EMD GP40 would be on a 1950s/1960s Santa Fe Arizona-themed layout.... Except that my wife's favorite animal is...... The Kitty! (smile). When my wife is happy.... everybody is happy.
John, This is a kitty, all 28 pounds of him. He can't get in the trainroom. Neither can his 25-lb sister, who eats anything coated with lacquer. She's camera-shy.
