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I've had trouble whether it's 350 guests or 13,000 guests. I don't really think that the number matters.
The UP is a pretty unique place. Lots of moisture all year round but the snowfall especially is epic! The area around Negaunee has hills but no real peaks, deep valleys or a tree line!
Negaunee is a few miles maybe 2 inland from the Lake called Superior. Uts about 25 miles from Lake Michigan so there is lots of lake effect weather
Here are the placement suggestions from Ai based on the Forest Service data for the UP
Paper birch (white) is a "pioneer species"—it cannot grow in the dark shade of mature maples. It needs wide-open sunlight to sprout. In the UP, you will find them clustered tightly in these specific areas:
The Railroad Right-of-Way: When railroads clear-cut a swath of forest for tracks, paper birch is almost always the first tree to jump into the open space. Plant your hand-twisted, multi-trunk white birch clusters right along the edges of the ballast and rock cuts where the sun hits.
The Riverbanks and Bridge Overpasses: They love the sunny openings created by water drainage and river paths. Placing a few dramatic white trunks leaning out near your bridge overpass is 100% prototypically accurate.
The "Transition Zone": Put them right on the border where the steep basalt rock croppings meet the deep dirt. They thrive on disturbed, rocky soils where heavy maple canopies haven't taken over yet.
Yellow birch is a completely different beast. It is highly shade-tolerant and loves moisture.
The Low-Lying Valleys: Instead of the high, sunny edges, yellow birch grows inside the forest mixed directly with your 112 maples.
Damp Hollows and Ravines: If you have a low spot on Deck 2 or a dip near a drainage culvert, that's where the yellow birch hangs out.
The Clue is the Stumps: Yellow birch seeds almost exclusively sprout on top of rotting logs and old pine stumps (hemlock and white pine). As the tree grows, its roots wrap around the dead log. Decades later, the log rots away, leaving the mature yellow birch standing on weird, stilt-like roots!
As you know for the bridge threads and paper mill threads your help was immense to keep me on track because Ai was leading me astray. I have really learned not to trust but check and verify first before postings
While I have run only an overview of the quaking Aspens and the maples as to over-all placement. I have not done the deep dive yet. Aspens from personal experience of the UP though seem to be everywhere the Maples are and the maples are everywhere. They are a rememberance I Ithink because of the trunk color. After the Maples the conifers are 30% of the overall tree makeup where the Aspens are 18% and birch 15%.
I’m building to fit the numbers plus the 10% extra Intry to build on. Actual tree placement will come the owner and the landscaper. I the tree builder, track painter and helper on this project
Tom
If that happens at my house it means I am no longer around.
John
. If I were to guess I’d guess morale might have had something to do with it.
I can't believe they threw away that lead. When the news came on it was 7-5 in the 8th. We didn't get the game here. Next one I can watch is on the 24th vs Cincinnati.
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chadbag
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Siting in my car at the Buena Park HS in Buena Park CA. Game supposed to start in 50 min. We’ve been here a little over 10 min. Got here a min before the half hour. Wife and daughter are in by the pool. I was finishing my breakfast of mobile champions. Had a parm cheese bagel with butter and cream cheese at the resort and a store brand pop tart pair and some bacon in the car. Unfortunately her second game is too close to the first so we’ll be staying here between games. Made sandwiches for lunch and brought them with. If they win both they play again tonight around 7:30pm. We’ll see.
I’m just looking forward to a nap this afternoon.
It’s mid 70s. Feels humid but not overbearing. 76% with dew point 66 F. AQI is 54. Supposed to get to around 86F.
Not bad but I’d rather have 50-55% humidity. Us dry air types don’t like this stickiness.
I’ll report back.
I’m just looking forward to a nap this afternoon.
It’s mid 70s. Feels humid but not overbearing. 76% with dew point 66 F. AQI is 54. Supposed to get to around 86F.
Not bad but I’d rather have 50-55% humidity. Us dry air types don’t like this stickiness.
I’ll report back.
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Texas Hobo
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Happy Anniversary Troy and Mrs. Troy
RhB Michael
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Likes and posts are not working well today. As usual.
santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
I was still at church.
I've had trouble whether it's 350 guests or 13,000 guests. I don't really think that the number matters.
chadbag
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They lost the first game. 3-13. The other team was Sacramento. They were physically aggressive. It looked like they were grabbing suits and all sorts of illegal stuff but weren’t getting called for it.
We were in the sun but eventually the overhead screens starting providing some relief.
I think the next game is in 2 hours. Should be the last of the day. They’d need to win both games today to play tonight as I understood it.
So bright it’s hard to see the screen and the phone gave me a temperature warning. I was supposed to be taking pics.
We were in the sun but eventually the overhead screens starting providing some relief.
I think the next game is in 2 hours. Should be the last of the day. They’d need to win both games today to play tonight as I understood it.
So bright it’s hard to see the screen and the phone gave me a temperature warning. I was supposed to be taking pics.
RhB Michael
RhB Lokführer
88°F/80°F here now. It is truly miserable outside. Heat index is 104°F
TLOC
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So now we know who the leader of the bots is…
TLOC
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Re: the birch and aspen tree pplacement. Ai is only as good as the information given. I fed the data from the National Forest Service regarding trees in the Negaunee area of the UP.
The UP is a pretty unique place. Lots of moisture all year round but the snowfall especially is epic! The area around Negaunee has hills but no real peaks, deep valleys or a tree line!
Negaunee is a few miles maybe 2 inland from the Lake called Superior. Uts about 25 miles from Lake Michigan so there is lots of lake effect weather
Here are the placement suggestions from Ai based on the Forest Service data for the UP
Paper birch (white) is a "pioneer species"—it cannot grow in the dark shade of mature maples. It needs wide-open sunlight to sprout. In the UP, you will find them clustered tightly in these specific areas:
The Railroad Right-of-Way: When railroads clear-cut a swath of forest for tracks, paper birch is almost always the first tree to jump into the open space. Plant your hand-twisted, multi-trunk white birch clusters right along the edges of the ballast and rock cuts where the sun hits.
The Riverbanks and Bridge Overpasses: They love the sunny openings created by water drainage and river paths. Placing a few dramatic white trunks leaning out near your bridge overpass is 100% prototypically accurate.
The "Transition Zone": Put them right on the border where the steep basalt rock croppings meet the deep dirt. They thrive on disturbed, rocky soils where heavy maple canopies haven't taken over yet.
Yellow birch is a completely different beast. It is highly shade-tolerant and loves moisture.
The Low-Lying Valleys: Instead of the high, sunny edges, yellow birch grows inside the forest mixed directly with your 112 maples.
Damp Hollows and Ravines: If you have a low spot on Deck 2 or a dip near a drainage culvert, that's where the yellow birch hangs out.
The Clue is the Stumps: Yellow birch seeds almost exclusively sprout on top of rotting logs and old pine stumps (hemlock and white pine). As the tree grows, its roots wrap around the dead log. Decades later, the log rots away, leaving the mature yellow birch standing on weird, stilt-like roots!
As you know for the bridge threads and paper mill threads your help was immense to keep me on track because Ai was leading me astray. I have really learned not to trust but check and verify first before postings
While I have run only an overview of the quaking Aspens and the maples as to over-all placement. I have not done the deep dive yet. Aspens from personal experience of the UP though seem to be everywhere the Maples are and the maples are everywhere. They are a rememberance I Ithink because of the trunk color. After the Maples the conifers are 30% of the overall tree makeup where the Aspens are 18% and birch 15%.
I’m building to fit the numbers plus the 10% extra Intry to build on. Actual tree placement will come the owner and the landscaper. I the tree builder, track painter and helper on this project
Tom
There's nothing like the smell of burning electronics...
A month ago, I got an NCE Pro Cab system to replace the Digitrax system I was using. A week after it went into service, the decoder on the Piko 65 tonner failed.
Today, a new Digitrax decoder I installed to replace a Lenz decoder failed. I then started running other trains, and the Digitrax decoder in an Intermountain Tunnel Motor went up in smoke. It was bad enough the smoke detector in the house went off. Since the first one wasn't a Digitrax decoder, but is of questionable quality, and the next two were Digitrax, I'm leaning more toward something janky with the power system. I'm suspending operations on the layout until I can bring testing equipment home to check voltages, and see if there are spikes taking out the electronics. While the one I installed this morning could have been installation error, the factory decoder, and the decoder I installed several weeks ago probably weren't. The Piko decoder had been working for a couple of years, and the one in the tunnel motor had been installed weeks ago, and was simply sitting on the layout.
A month ago, I got an NCE Pro Cab system to replace the Digitrax system I was using. A week after it went into service, the decoder on the Piko 65 tonner failed.
Today, a new Digitrax decoder I installed to replace a Lenz decoder failed. I then started running other trains, and the Digitrax decoder in an Intermountain Tunnel Motor went up in smoke. It was bad enough the smoke detector in the house went off. Since the first one wasn't a Digitrax decoder, but is of questionable quality, and the next two were Digitrax, I'm leaning more toward something janky with the power system. I'm suspending operations on the layout until I can bring testing equipment home to check voltages, and see if there are spikes taking out the electronics. While the one I installed this morning could have been installation error, the factory decoder, and the decoder I installed several weeks ago probably weren't. The Piko decoder had been working for a couple of years, and the one in the tunnel motor had been installed weeks ago, and was simply sitting on the layout.
westtexjohn
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Damn dishwasher died day before yesterday
If that happens at my house it means I am no longer around.
John
kbkchooch
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Likewise here!Damn dishwasher died day before yesterday
If that happens at my house it means I am no longer around.
John
chadbag
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So they won their second game. In a nail biter. They pretty much traded goals throughout the game. We were ahead at the end 6-5 and they ended up scoring with 13 seconds left. So tied 6-6. We pulled our goalie and pressed with a man advantage and scored with 1 sec left. They put everyone in the goal and the other team lobbed it from half court in the last second and it almost made it through the wall of hands but didn’t. So we won 7-6.
Having extensive experience on operational flight decks I will agree with how dangerous it is, but I also know that long deployments generate boredom and a need to bleed off excess energy. Pilots did stuff in and with the aircraft. Officers did stuff, as we saw. If enlisted had tried this they’d get a 90 day stint in the galley, but enlisted are enlisted and officers are officers. This was likely cleared by someone all the way up to the air boss and probably higher. The appropriate safety checks were all done, they just added the dance moves.
. If I were to guess I’d guess morale might have had something to do with it.
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DeaconKC
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Good evening all, still 94 here with a Heat Index of 104 after a high of 98. Gonna be pushing 100 the next couple of days too.
Had a good day at Church, both services. My G'niece Nataley and her best friend Paisley sang a really beautiful special this morning. After services got home and relaxed, listened to the Cardinals blow a 7-0 lead to lose to the Diamondbacks in 10 innings. Ugh.
Anyway we are taking it easy tonight watching some old TV.
Plan for tomorrow is to get up early and try to quickly shovel some gravel back onto the parking area that was washed out by a gully washer storm last week.
You guys have a good evening.
Had a good day at Church, both services. My G'niece Nataley and her best friend Paisley sang a really beautiful special this morning. After services got home and relaxed, listened to the Cardinals blow a 7-0 lead to lose to the Diamondbacks in 10 innings. Ugh.
Anyway we are taking it easy tonight watching some old TV.
Plan for tomorrow is to get up early and try to quickly shovel some gravel back onto the parking area that was washed out by a gully washer storm last week.
You guys have a good evening.
chadbag
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It looks like their first game on Monday, tomorrow, isn’t until 1pm. So maybe we get to miss rush hour traffic Monday morning. Haven’t heard yet where it is.
Wife and daughter went to a beach tonight with some other parts of the team. I wasn’t ready in time so didn’t get to go with.
Wife and daughter went to a beach tonight with some other parts of the team. I wasn’t ready in time so didn’t get to go with.
RhB Michael
RhB Lokführer
I can't believe they threw away that lead. When the news came on it was 7-5 in the 8th. We didn't get the game here. Next one I can watch is on the 24th vs Cincinnati.
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