On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:15:45 -0700, "Greg.P." wrote:
Mark is not the one posting bullshit, you are. Not only that, but everyone reading this group has become keenly aware of that.
That's because the "other possibilities"- namely direct current- controlling the tracks under the trains instead of the actual trains- has reached its limit of practical development. One can do many things with DC to mimic some of the features of DCC, but at great cost in time, money and engineering input. There is no point in doing that when one can get all that DC offers and more right out of the box with a top-shelf DCC system. Reading the tripe you write one gets the idea that you believe that your old manual typewriter can do everything a modern, computerized word processing program can do. That is rubbish, and so are your anti-DCC rantings. Listening to you prattle about prototypical working is a joke. Either you do not have a clue, or you are pretending not to have one. In either case, you are coming across like an absolutely clueless individual. There are several of us subscribing to this group who are, or have been, professional railroaders, myself among them. We have told you that you don't know what you are talking about, and you respond that, yes you do, it is us that are incorrect and clueless. When I read your post stating that; while you do not actually have any real working on the railroad experience, you have read a lot about it and know several people who do, or who have worked on the railroad, I almost sprayed a mouthful of Coca-Cola out onto the keyboard and video screen. Did you mean that as a joke, or were you actually serious?
Do you think that those of us who earn a living working on the railroad live in a vacuum? Do you think we can spend decades working as groundsmen, engine drivers, signalmen, trainmasters, yardmasters, leading engine drivers, dispatchers and so on, and not know all about how a real railway operates? Do you think that those of the aforementioned group who are interested enough to be model railroaders have not accrued additional railway knowledge through reading, study, and observation to go along with their own first-hand experience? Do you think that I am incapable of operating my model railway with DCC in exactly the same fashion that my chosen prototype did? If you do, then you are an arrogant ass to be sure.
Your intransigence and your abyssal lack of knowledge about railway operation is amusing. Almost as amusing as your pathetic attempts to discredit DCC and all those who use it. You said that I should killfile you. Ah, but I won't do that, because you amuse me and I am one of the few who genuinely irritate you. You are sorely lacking in knowledge about railway operations in the real world, and even more sorely lacking in knowledge regarding prototypical operation of model railways. You have, so far, got yourself PLONKED by two subscribers to this group by virtue of your ignorant rantings. I will not be number three. I rather enjoy seeing you get your ass roasted by the likes of Roger and Mark. I am sorry that Roger killfiled you as it was amusing to read him rake you over the coals. I shall miss that. If you knew what you were talking about it would be different, but you pontificate from a point of utter ignorance, so you deserve to get raked over the coals.
Regards, Obnoxious Pratt