Changes to my fotopic site - advance warning

A message to all those who've been following my fotopic postings

As I've now got more that 150 photos on the South Shore part of my fotopic site and over 120 on the 'real' trains part of the site I realise that it is getting a bit more difficult for people to find specific items of interest to them.

Therefore I will shortly be adding new collections and moving some of the existing photos over to these new collections as and when I find out exactly how to do it (I think I've got it sorted but I have to be certain that I've got it right before I go too far).

Two examples of the kind of collections I hope to create are photos I've taken of Charlie Fox-Wilson's Broke Brick Mountain and Cliff South's Ashley Danville and Deanstown layouts. It should also make it easier if anyone wants to link to a specific 'theme'.

This should take place by Tuesday or Wednesday next week but in the meantime this is your chance to view the whole of the gallery at

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If I get enough time I may also 'rationalise' some of the photos and delete those which are out of date or no longer relevant e.g. older photos of Broke Brick or the AD&D - unless you want me to keep the older photos on my site so that you can see the progress that has been made between photo shoots. Just in case you miss anything follow the link above. The photos are currently viewed as last first so you may want to go to the back photo on the index and then work forward as I will probably delete the older photos first.

I should also have some news for you about a new 'collection' which will feature my loft layout - if I can remember to take the camera up there!

I have in mind to take photos of the installation of a Lenz 150 DCC auxiliary (point motor) decoder which will operate up to 6 turnouts at a time. As I'm using this with Tortoise motors it did originally present me with a few problems which I've managed to solve and which may help others. Anyone interested in this?

Reply to
Mike Hughes
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On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 08:32:19 +0100, Mike Hughes said in :

You're going to stop spamming your website?

Oh no, of course not.

Enough. In the trollbox with you.

Guy

Reply to
Just zis Guy, you know?

He's not selling anything, so he's not "spamming": just offering to share his pictures with any other model railroaders who might be interested. If you're *not* interested, just don't go look at the pictures. Simple, no?

BTW: your sig line as well as your post lead me to believe you may have fallen on your head without a helmet once too often.

-Pete

Reply to
Twibil

Where were the BC Rail photos taken? I see you are in UK but the photos kinda look like Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Reply to
Big_Al

Us Canadians really object to being called "Americans", as in your header: -

American Railroad photos real and model by Mike @ fotopic.net

-- Cheers Roger T. See the GER at: -

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Reply to
Roger T.

"Twibil" wrote

Not at all simple - these messages are being cross-posted to other groups including uk.rec.models.rail - this group has a very specific charter limiting posting to topics directly relating to the modelling of UK prototypes. In that context (and that group is where I for one have read these postings), such off-topic messages are very definitely spam.

John.

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John Turner

Object all you like: Canada will *still* be located in North America, as is the U.S.

I thought you guys only got this bored in the winter.

Reply to
Twibil

Nope, it still ain't "spam", but maybe if you lie down and cry yourself to sleep tonight things will look better in the morning.

Get a grip.

-Pete

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Twibil

"Twibil" wrote: -

Object all you like: Canada will *still* be located in North America, as is the U.S.

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This is correct, "North America". Canadians don't object to "North America".

"America" has been stolen by the U.S.A. as the name of their country, which is why Canada is not part of "America". The continent name is "North America" not "America". Why? See preceeding sentence.

However, why is it that when Canadians object to being called "Americans" people like yourself say we are wrong yet if some other country changes their name and decides to be called something else, "Mirimar" rather than "Burma" for example, or a city says you must now call us "Bejing" instead of "Peking" you go along with it? If Canadians insist that they are not "Americans", then you should respect that and not put Canadians down for not wanting to be "Americans".

-- Cheers Roger T. See the GER at: -

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I thought you guys only got this bored in the winter.

Reply to
Roger T.

On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:25:19 -0700, I said, "Pick a card, any card" and "Roger T." instead replied:

You're still Americans.

-- Ray

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Ray Haddad

"Ray Haddad"

Never.

-- Cheers Roger T. See the GER at: -

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Reply to
Roger T.

On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 14:01:50 -0700, I said, "Pick a card, any card" and "Roger T." instead replied:

Of course you are. You come from the Americas just like El Salvadorans do. And Brazilians. And Mexicans. Deal.

-- Ray

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Ray Haddad

On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 21:25:19 +0100, Roger T. wrote

Sorry? "Mirimar"??? Are you *sure* about that?

Reply to
Stimpy

He doesn't need to get a grip, you need a prolonged session with a clue stick. The term "spam" was actually first used to describe posts across multiple Usenet forums, regardless of whether they were for financial gain or not.

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The OP is in fact posting a message promoting his crappy website. Promotional messages (aka advertisements) are also regarded as spam.

And before some intellectual midget tries to argue that this response is itself cross-posted, it is indeed. However, at least I have enough of a clue to reset follow-ups.

Reply to
Ed Banger

Except people don't. Beijing and Mumbai yes (though we pronounce Beijing "wrongly", and I wonder if people actually realise Mumbai is the same place as Bombay?), Kolkata maybe, but how about Banglore? Or Pretoria?

Myanmar is particularly complicated because of the politics - if you say Burma, you are an evil western colonialist. If you say Myanmar, you are an evil propaganda tool of the junta.

Some of the Indian changes aren't quite as simple and universally welcomed as, say, replacing the previous name of Theodor Heuss Platz in Berlin.

There is no hope of being "correct" in places like Spain or Belgium.

No-one gets upset about Munich or Florence, and the Czechs don't seem to have a problem with (perhaps needlessly) feeding names like Carlsbad to English speakers, but the Poles get upset when someone gives up on a heap of Zs and says Stettin instead.

FYROM, anyone?

If Britons don't want to be considered Europeans, should the rest of the world obey?

Reply to
Arthur Figgis

Repeating a lie won't make it true. Most children learn that early on. I suppose the retarded ones still playing with trainsets after others have grown out of it can be expected to be backwards in other respects.

Reply to
Steve Firth

What, both of them?

Why not f*ck off and keep your spam to the toy trains group?

Reply to
Steve Firth

On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 11:20:39 -0700 (PDT), Twibil said in :

Which explains his posting to a group (uk.transport) which has no known association with railway modelling, yes?

Posting to multiple groups with no substantive content other than self-promotion is spamming.

Guy

Reply to
Just zis Guy, you know?

Yes.

Calling Canadians "American" is analogous of call the Scots, the Welsh and the Irish, "English". And you all know how they feel about that! :-)

-- Cheers Roger T. See the GER at: -

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Roger T.

Nobody cares what you object to. Your notions of political correctness do not concern anyone but the small minority of Canadians who have nothing better to do with their time than fret about nomenclature that was put in place over 200 years ago and is not going to change.

Garbage. To "steal" means to illegally take something from the person or legal entity that actually owns it. Nobody ever owned the name "America", and your use of the word "steal" in this context unwittingly reveals your revisionist intent: I.E. to pretend that the U.S. took something that rightfully belonged to you in the first place and that they must therefore be the ogres in your fairy tale.

You're perfectly welcome to call yourselves anything you want to, and should the Canadian government suddenly announce that Montreal will hense-forth be spelled and pronounced "Whiffleball", we'll happily go along with the joke.

But that's not the same thing as pretending that you personally speak for all Canadians and acting as if everyone else should suddenly bow to your individual wishes. Last I heard, the government of Canada had not officially announced to the world's press that=A0they will no longer accept being part of the inclusive term "Americans". (And to put a little perspective on your claim, can you imagine the Chinese announcing that they are no longer "Asians"?)

Again you've confused Canada -the legal entity and government- with yourself. Look in the mirror. Are you three thousand miles wide, do you extend to the Arctic ocean in your northern extremities, the Pacific on your west, the Atlantic on your east, and border the U.S. on your south? No? Do you contain some 33 million people of widely varying ethnic and social backgrounds and political views to match? Not that either?

Do you happen to have any wheat fields, forests, lakes, cities, or rivers on your immediate person? Still no luck?

Then *you* aren't "Canada". (It's easy for most people to tell the difference.)

Funny how you -you the *individual*, that is- are so willing to decide what Americans should do in terms of political correctness, but quite properly resent it when we do the same to you in in return.

Goose, gander, sauce for.

-Pete

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Twibil

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