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  1. Peter KG6LSE

    Scanners

    Thats odd as scanners are wide as a barn door on there RX circuits and this often leads to sensitivity issues . a mono band-er HT is as tight and tuned as physics can get aside from kiddy FRS stuff .
  2. Peter KG6LSE

    Excess Carry-on Baggage Fee Began October 1, 2015

    perhaps Men should bring back the murse . Ummm man-purse... Ummm satchel . ;)
  3. Peter KG6LSE

    Excess Carry-on Baggage Fee Began October 1, 2015

    Il bet with in a week there will be a ADA violation ... The Staff on the train are already in some cases over worked . The last thing they need is more to enforce with so many laws. Does the APD and staff KNOW the ADA. From my few encounters they are as educated as a random person on the...
  4. Peter KG6LSE

    $.90 CHI-IND Fares!

    Micromanagement " MicaManagement " :giggle:
  5. Peter KG6LSE

    Excess Carry-on Baggage Fee Began October 1, 2015

    25 years in to the ADA. and that bulky hang card is the best portable way of proof .... perhaps I am a moron. but is there ANY state that just offers it as a wallet card?...... I dont own a car. so cards that hang are useless. plates are the same way. Heck the hangcard I have the ink on...
  6. Peter KG6LSE

    Excess Carry-on Baggage Fee Began October 1, 2015

    the root of this is the stupid bag cars..... we need Roll on roll off bag cars .... and some one to man them at every station. folks this is not 1937. its 2015. Crack down on carry on's Offer train side checked bags! EG like a dome car's tri level floor plan....
  7. Peter KG6LSE

    Record Set on Final Trails & Rails Run on Southwest Chief

    Oh boy . thats been axed too! . thats a shame. they where allwas making good use of that minibar upstairs.
  8. Peter KG6LSE

    "Handicapped" roommette for the able-bodied?

    I ended up getting a hangtag a few years back as Its the best way to universality prove your impaired. Nerve issues along with bad knees ... I wish the Law had a way to have the same in a wallet card Its not like I have a way to hang it on my segway ;) Irony my road transport is...
  9. Peter KG6LSE

    Privatization of Dining Car Service may be the answer

    part of it is the unions Not in a bad way but they do get in the way . Read on .. Here is my take . GUT every snack car.. GUT the diner cars........... ditch the lower bar in the shack car in to the OBS office. I they SHOULD be useing the transdorm but they dont enough. THEN ditch the...
  10. Peter KG6LSE

    Question on delayed train

    In Ideal world with more funding . I would DEMAND they change there tude on many things. I have a great solution that is gonna make people unhappy but thats too bad. read on .., First off what if some one was medically unable to fly . you cant shove some one on a flight if it can kill them...
  11. Peter KG6LSE

    If They Could Redesign The Superliners

    a real bar car would be fun WITH the hottub and fire poles.
  12. Peter KG6LSE

    Food Prices

    Our threads have loads of sidings and branch lines . but like on a nice detour we get on the main line again . heck some days we run over frogs. some threads split points but Our M.O.W. Mods fix things faster then a a BSNF crew on 20 cups of coffee. ( pardon the bad puns)
  13. Peter KG6LSE

    How 'bout a Pantograph on the new Diners?

    some insight. Phase is a huge issue . Lets just say you have phase XYZ wired right *HEP it IS delta* . but the shore power is not in * sync* with the trains Loco. holy arc flash batman! . IF I Was the EE in charge I would time lock the 60 Hz from the hotel shore power and sync to...
  14. Peter KG6LSE

    "... no one rides Amtrak."

    and what do the pundits propose we do with citys that only have bus and rail as a means to move about..... Lets take Ottumwa . .It has a airport but no real flights. I shudder to think what it would take in cash to make OTM A/P southwest flights. I welcome the shutdown of the LD system IF...
  15. Peter KG6LSE

    DEA asset seizure on SWC ($16,000)

    untill the dung hits the fan. this is not gonna stop. Its just time when this will happen to some governers son and it will be game over for the DEA's train robbery. short term fix. Seal your cash in a envelope in small amounts 400 or so a time. Mail it to yourself . (use first class) they...
  16. Peter KG6LSE

    Traveling with newly expired Drivers license

    I understand its a DHS/TSA thing . I am amazed college IDs are used at all?! they are so simple . I would hold those Credit cards with the embedded photos to be more of a proper vetted ID then some college print shop.
  17. Peter KG6LSE

    Traveling with newly expired Drivers license

    Jeeez how nutty can amtrak get . Lets be real . every uni I went to had IDs with photos. .... whose to say they cant be faked? they are as far from the Enhanced ID that your friends at the DHS want you to carry as, papers please .. Yet a hologramed barely expired ID from a state has some...
  18. Peter KG6LSE

    Mac app claims to reduce photo noise

    Ive also used noise ninja . Its very good. I own fractals that I use sparingly..
  19. Peter KG6LSE

    Oregon: "MAX Orange line train makes 1st run"

    YAY! now if only the WES was as usefull ( sigh)
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