I have returned from a great vacation and find that you'll have been behaving. After both a high school reunion and a family reunion I spent 6 days doing...
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Kathe Robin
m_robin@...
Aug 3, 2000 4:49 am
Howard: Welcome back! Sounds like you had a very pleasant vacation. Question for you. In PTW, a "unit" train ping-pongs the same cars back and forth if the...
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Howard R. Garner
hrgarner@...
Aug 3, 2000 10:51 am
Max, I do not know the correct answer to your question. My quess is that cars can ,and should, change on a commodity turn. We may hear from Jim on this when he...
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Jim Moir
moir5sdr@...
Aug 3, 2000 2:11 pm
Hi Howard, Jim will probably be back either next Mon or Tues. Incidentally, he and his brother Mike gave a clinic on Tues PM, demonstrating ProTrak and all ...
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Kathe Robin
m_robin@...
Aug 6, 2000 4:12 am
I've been trying to stay out of the discussion comparing computer programs which generate various operating information intended to realistically operate a...
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Phil Euper
peuper@...
Aug 6, 2000 10:21 am
Max, I have been using Shipit for 2-1/2 years now and as you say is a simplistic program for what we want to do. I have the ProTrak Demo Disk and I have done a...
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Howard R. Garner
hrgarner@...
Aug 6, 2000 12:41 pm
... Phil Check the web site <http://www.protrak.cc/> and look for "ProTrak for Windows Recipe Book" in the left window. This is the small book for getting...
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Kathe Robin
m_robin@...
Aug 6, 2000 2:55 pm
Please forgive the length of this missive, but there are too many issues to cover in one posting. ProTrak for Windows (PTW) also provides several very useful...
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John Bruce
j.bruce@...
Aug 6, 2000 4:32 pm
I was interested to read Max Robin's comments and thought I would provide a little more input on the matter. I make my living working with over-featured,...
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Kathe Robin
m_robin@...
Aug 6, 2000 7:09 pm
John: While it is certainly possible to write a computer package which would allow all data entry in your desired 30 minutes, based on 30 years as a Systems...
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John Bruce
j.bruce@...
Aug 6, 2000 8:33 pm
Max, the only thing I would add is that the features I outlined to streamline setup would not be all the features in the product. It would be a development...
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Mike Dodd
mdodd@...
Aug 7, 2000 1:08 am
... A serious omission, IMHO. Mike ... Mike Dodd - Montpelier, VA Modeling Virginian Railway, 1956 http://www.mindspring.com/~mdodd/vgn_main.htm...
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Phil Euper
peuper@...
Aug 7, 2000 8:25 am
Thanks Howard, Will check out the recipe book. Phil Euper ... From: "Howard R. Garner" <hrgarner@...> To: <ProTrak@egroups.com> Sent: Sunday, August 06,...
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D & L Sand
sandsys@...
Aug 7, 2000 3:52 pm
... If you never entered data for a town, how did the software find an industry? Also, do you really think software that includes a list of all the rolling ...
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D & L Sand
sandsys@...
Aug 7, 2000 3:52 pm
... ProTrak lets you do this. You are not required to enter your entire railroad or list of rolling stock before you begin operations. We entered two...
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John Bruce
j.bruce@...
Aug 7, 2000 7:25 pm
It sounds like my second post answered the question in your first post: I would envision a startup scenario in which the whole layout would be a single default...
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D & L Sand
sandsys@...
Aug 8, 2000 5:13 pm
... We didn't keep track. We just worked on it off and on during free times. I'm sure it took us more than 8 hours because we weren't starting with the ...
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mktfan@...
Aug 8, 2000 6:58 pm
Our club is in the mid-Missouri area and is very interested in the Protrak/Grapevine signalling system. Is there anyone living nearby with the Protrak system...
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Jim Moir
moir5sdr@...
Aug 8, 2000 11:00 pm
I am back from San Jose and an enjoyable weekend afterwards at Mike's in San Rafael. Mike and I did 1) a clinic and 2) a panel at San Jose; the Tuesday clinic ...
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Kathe Robin
m_robin@...
Aug 9, 2000 12:10 am
As they say Jim: "Right On"!!!! Max...
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Kathe Robin
m_robin@...
Aug 9, 2000 12:12 am
God knows (yeah I know my "Jewish" sister is going to be on my back again!) if you need an example of someone who's 110% sold on ProTrak and DOES NOT and WILL...
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Jim Moir
moir5sdr@...
Aug 10, 2000 12:50 pm
About what "real time" operation means.... The answers that Linda, Howard and Max all gave are of course excellent. I might summarize that "real-time" has two...
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Jim Moir
moir5sdr@...
Aug 10, 2000 12:50 pm
... I was able to save the email before about mid-July. I reformated this hard drive and after that until last Saturday Natalie read the mail and sumnmarized...
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Jim Moir
moir5sdr@...
Aug 10, 2000 12:50 pm
... Max, I answered this when you called but for everyone else.... ProTrak uses the "industry-wide" definition of unit train: "a fixed consist that travels...
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Jim Moir
moir5sdr@...
Aug 10, 2000 4:16 pm
I have just uploaded the "Grapevine signaling" part of the ProTrak clinic given at San Jose. This part was done by Dr. Mike Moir. You can see the slides at...
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Jim Moir
moir5sdr@...
Aug 10, 2000 4:17 pm
I have just uploaded a page of users' comments about ProTrak to the website at <www.protrak.cc/testimonials.htm>. If you would like your comments added,...
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D & L Sand
sandsys@...
Aug 10, 2000 7:15 pm
Jim, You might want to proofread your testimonials page. Linda...
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Norman Beveridge
norman.e.beveridge1@...
Aug 10, 2000 7:20 pm
John, I don't understand the problem with fiddling. Seems that this can easily be handled with the "off layout" cars being in a specific, separate staging...
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Howard R. Garner
hrgarner@...
Aug 10, 2000 7:31 pm
Jim, This works with Microsoft Internet Explore but not with Netscape 4.7. Howard...
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Howard R. Garner
hrgarner@...
Aug 10, 2000 7:55 pm
Norman has got this right. Schedule train 101 into staging. It will came back as 102 later. Most folks would run it back the next session. Just mark it as...
