There is a new update on my Gentle Model Railroad blog. Here I describe my process in getting the boards made for the new HO layout. Check out my first attempt at stop framing!
Hi everyone. Not been around for a few years since I lost my hobby room when my mother-in-law came to stay (she is 97!). Having struggled to get a few layouts going, I have finally settled on a 7' long HO switching layout. If you would like to see all of my history - it goes back to 2009 -...
"Empty box cars come from the general pool so can be sourced from either end of the railroad". This includes reefers.
"The problem I see with this is that if you have the engine proposing a higher demand than there are cars available, the owner will never know he is short of cars, and...
This is how it works. I was just explaining to the previous poster how my software looked like his pseudo code.
My blog at https://tm470routingproject.blog explains:
"the DE has to track through every location that could source or require a car and assess any need. Once this analysis is done...
Industry X -> Car Type A
When Industry X Needs Random(number) Cars -> Create Train
When Create Train ADD Car type (Industry X.CarType)
I write in Smalltalk and in pseudo code that comes out as:
Car Type A sendTo: IndustryX;
[IndustryX needsRandomCars(aNumber)] ifTrue:[ CreateTrain...
I think that you are thinking about traditional databases. The only thing that matters in this scenario is "this train". The system builds the train for you. You use the information; tell the system that you have moved all of the items; the system updates for the new locations and then that...
Only if you are using it as though it was a SQL db (which would be pointless).
KV databases are used for fast access by keys - not by searching. There are objects in buckets accessed by keys. You use it by dumping and reading complete records ( not an expression that I like - I prefer...
Not using a SQL database. On a Key/Value database, there isn't any normalising. You have multiple copies of data under different keys.
Using an example of my model shop web data base:
key -> Value
SaleID -> sale record.
Client Name -> sale record list
Client ID -> sale record list
and so on...
I am busy working away on the project. Although it is, supposedly, a software project, the University sees it as a project report. I am expecting to have a working prototype to accord to the the original design once the course ends but the University deliverable is a 10,000 word report. To help...
I have been model railroading since the mid-50s but almost never had a fully working layout. Something always gets in the way. As I am now retired and building a railroad "properly" my wife demanded(!!) that I have some people:-)
To stop the trouble, I not only have people but I also have cows!