http://www.youconvertit.com/wav-aiff-en.aspx

Space Oddity and Let's Dance

After reviewing the mogg files. Literally spending a lot of time with them, I've noticed a continuum betwixt Space Oddity and Let's Dance. A big song with a lot of blues guitar.
Simply that.

Analysis of Something

http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/s.shtml

http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/s.shtml

http://multitrackdownloads.blogspot.com/

http://multitrackdownloads.blogspot.com/

Autocad commands


http://www.cadforum.cz/cadforum_en/command.asp

Kirsty MacColl 1979 big hit UK They Don't Know

Tracy Ullman had a hit with it in USA.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvAdTrHU0Q0


Lydia Loveless covers it....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwfadD31UH8

Susan Barth   Over There
https://play.spotify.com/search/susan%20barth%20over%20there

Chris Whitley
Big Sky Country

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRsHNrJIZ0U

Poison Girl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNtUvbtIwl0

Hellhound on my Trail LIVE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1vZ3NIuJ3s

Rock and Roll

Duke Ellington
Cottontail
recorded 1940 in Hollywood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbOseBw-fnU
Hank Williams first hit.

Move It On Over
recorded
April 21, 1947

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lza3NVH6Ig

all sessions
http://www.hankwilliamsdiscography.com/HankWilliams/HWSession.php


Leon Payne Lost Highway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbCMH-2FjvU

Trying to Get to You The Eagles
 1954

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfQjLxAeRZo



Assjack
Hank Williams III

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Kh-D7GstA

Michaelangelo's David vs Goliath.

How did he do it? Head snapped back and to the right....

Turbo Squid ISS model

http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/max-international-space-station-iss/647103

Progress

Much progress has been made. Developed a system to do the cowlings. An old way, yet a tried and true way.
The turnbuckles, and then today the beginnings of the end walls.

Jesus

Jesus was amazing.
Even if you don't believe in him, his words ring true. Across the ages.
He said, basically, before you worry about the splinter in your friends eye, maybe you should think about pulling the 2x4 out of your own eye.
I like that the best.
Next I like, when he says, Hey the 10 commandments are really good, when they say "love your neighbor."
But then he amends them with "Love your enemies."

That is harsh. I immediately thought of Hitler. Why should I love him?
Because even in his hardened soul there was a pearl that only God owned.

Andy Warhol's friend Ultra Violet dies

Isabelle Collin Dufresne

aka

Ultra Violet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_Violet_%28Isabelle_Collin_Dufresne%29

Louis Waldon

http://pagesix.com/2013/12/08/friends-mourn-death-of-warhol-factory-member/

Dwight Yoakam I Sang Dixie....Buck introduces...Dwight explains what it means...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJCPnd3NDNs
The Blue Melon  Doo Wah Diddy Wiggle Mix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP3BA13n-NE

Kiesza....Hideaway...big hit in Germany right now....
Incredible 80's video...One video shot.... Great planning...Don't care if you like it or not...
She does a Cyndi Lauper pose in the middle of the video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESXgJ9-H-2U

Dwight Yoakam I Want You to Want Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_lSJfUHu8A

The Heart That You Own
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIqGUTn9AEU

Totally amazing...Dwight does  Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZNmFR19m_I

Austin City Limits...She Wore Red Dresses....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkx68VTJ33o

Austin City Limits with Buck Owens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TryzDq8LSCo

Hillbilly Bears

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hhh70InsEc

Progress

Delaware Public Archives _ Chicago & South Side Transit

Following up on my beginning work yesterday....
Found these wonderful drawings in Delaware Public Archives...
Jackson and Sharp were train car builders.
The wiki article on Chicago South Side Transit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Side_Elevated_Railroad

states that it began with 180 46' wooden passenger cars.
This kind of jibes...The drawings I found spec'ed 45'11 1/4" with didn't make sense with anything else in the drawing. This kind of thing always happens.

This is wonderful. Jackson and Sharp's car #1 is on exhibit at the Chicago History Museum
This is Chicago L org's archive page.
http://www.chicago-l.org/trains/gallery/car1.html

From this document..
"Car 1, Chicago's first rapid transit passenger car, was part of an order for 180 cars purchased by the Chicago & South Side Rapid Transit Railroad Company. Ordered on February 15, 1892 from the Jackson & Sharp company, the cars were trailers built to be hauled behind steam locomotives.
The cars were of wood construction and had center end doors with open platforms at each end of the car and railroad-style roofs with stained glass clerestories. The cars, as delivered, were painted dark Pullman green and had intricate stripping and gold leaf decoration on the exterior. The railroad's name was spelled out in gold lettering along the letterboard -- the long, thin, horizontal space on the carside between the tops of the windows and the roof -- with a unique peculiarity: a period at the end of the name.
The interiors were luxurious and typically Victorian, with varnished woodwork, ornate light fixtures, decorative ceiling trim, slatted window shades, cork floor mats, rattan seats, and leather straps hung from the ceiling for standees. Originally, the cars were heated by steam from the locomotives, circulated in the cars through pipes, and were lit by gas lights supplied from tanks under the car floor. The cars weighed 42,500 pounds; were 46 feet long, 8 feet 9.75 inches wide, and 12 feet 10 inches high; and seated 46 people."

Wheels

So, I figured a simple way for wheels. I did a profile of the wheel and used the spin function in Blender. Then I added a line 4'5 1/2" for the new standard inside length between wheels, and some points in the original file for it to snap to.
Now I can use this wheel profile file again with little alteration to create any wheel I need, and still alter it as learn more.
It worked out pretty well.

Bettendorf Etc.

Link

Don't know if I already have this link up....
Need to consolidate them into one document....


http://pennsyrr.com/

Train Renderings

PRR 2-8-0 Consolidation

 Scan from Model Railroader Cyclopedia Vol 1.



http://www.joesherlock.com/Consolidation.html

http://www.prrho.com/index.htm

I Think Its Gonna Rain Today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4bz8qSMAlc

Kitty Litter.....Reverb Nation....this is such old stuff..

http://www.reverbnation.com/georgekevinbanks

Kevin Banks music

http://fandalism.com/kevinbanks

Kelanie and Don

Emmanuel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKhg7Fj75rw

Awake Oh Sleeper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDycNKZwv0

Don Potter In the Spirit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljpCXtQIEOQ&list=PL8B59F391EF358F45

http://www.pdftodxf.com/

Yogi Berra says...

"If we just move first base one foot, we'd get rid of all the close plays."

What Yogi is saying, in the pure wisdom of Yogi, is that baseball is perfectly balanced. The plays are almost always close at first base. The distance from the plate to first base, 90', is somehow perfect. Everything depends on infielders being really good at their jobs for nearly every play to be close. Otherwise the batter will take first base every time.
But because of the distance-relationship between a batted ball, the infielder's reaction and the batter's running speed, nearly every play at first base will be close if all these players are operating at maximum efficiency.
An infielder mishandles the ball, that is called an error, and the batter takes first base.

Trucks

Wonderful set of files. Greatly researched.
http://www.greenbayroute.com/1947diagram30.htm

Forum discussion on blueprints for trucks....!!! Finally....

http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?64127-Blueprints

Trucks
The best example of resource I've seen on trucks....
And the best explanation I've seen....

http://jamesriverbranch.net/clinic_2a.htm

Bettendorf

In 1903 Bettendorf introduced a truck with a T section.

Introduced in 1903, the Bettendorf friction bearing truck was one of the first truck designs with one-piece cast sideframes and integral journal boxes. The original design used a sideframe with a "T" cross section. T-section trucks remained popular through the twenties, but were eventually phased out in favor of newer designs (and ultimately banned from interchange service in 1953). The Bettendorf T-section truck has never been modeled in N scale, so here's Kadee's HO version (hey, we can dream, can't we?) -
Significantly stronger trucks featuring a U-shaped cross section eventually superceded the T-section trucks starting in the 1920s. This style of truck, which is most identified with the modern steam and early diesel eras, has become generically (and incorrectly) known as the "Bettendorf" truck. The Bettendorf Co. widely licensed elements of its design, so many builders besides Bettendorf made trucks of this type (to the point that the U-section cast steel truck was eventually adopted as an ARA standard: the Type Y truck). Although each of these trucks (regardless of the manufacturer) follows the ARA/AAR standards, many have varying details (sideframe shape, spring size and styles, bolster design, journal-box lids, etc).
Starting in the 1930s, these trucks were upgraded with double-truss sideframes (with parts of the U-shaped section being filled in, creating a double-layer effect on the sideframes). Model-wise, these trucks are indistinguishable from the earlier U-Section / Type Y trucks.
Virtually every N scale manufacturer has offered up some sort of "Bettendorf" style truck at one time or another (and of varying quality). These are generally presumed to be 50-ton trucks, although Atlas does make a 40-ton version (for use on lighter cars such as reefers).
Athearn, Atlas/China, Atlas/Roco, Bachmann (new), Con-Cor, Fox Valley, Intermountain, and Micro-Trains 50-ton -

Some Reflections

On January 28 I took photos in San Marco.
This was near the beginning of doing "precision" drawings.

Early in February I started the Amphitheater project...
This took a while......

February 16 I started this blog.

On March 31 I took my train book to Office Depot and had some things scanned. That was the beginning of  "trains."
I started on the Mikado 2-8-2 and quickly realized I was way in over my head.

April 1, proto Mikado and coal car under the Brooklyn Bridge....
I obviously abandoned this and worked some more on the Brooklyn Bridge.

On April 5, my band fired me.

On April 16 I converted the file of the CS#24, the coach and baggage car, to a reverse black and white file.
This was the beginning of working on this car.
I posted my first images on my blog of these trains....

I spent some time working on that car.

Knuckle.
I started photos of the Pullman Car at the Prime Osborne on April 27
Sunday, ‎April ‎27, ‎2014, ‏‎2:47:11 PM

Same day I downloaded the Knuckle blueprint.
That day I started on the knuckle. That took about a week to get something decent.

Then the coupler assembly...
May 4 animation of knuckle and coupler.
 
then the bracket...
May 16 coupler bracket
Then the Oil Tanker....May 22-23

Then the Caboose...  May 23-24.

Then a simple animation.....May 25?

Then back the Mikado

Long and short, I've been doing trains for about two months....
It's amazing what you can learn in a couple of months...It seems like I've been doing trains much longer...Guess that it testament to my immersion in this....

WJCT

Tonight WJCT had a particularly wonderful hour of Country Crossroads.

BTW
Mule Skinner Blues The Fendermen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3-mh3vXDA0
Here's the playlist....
....all which led me to Ralph Stanley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mytH2k4jZE0
 Oh Death

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpq6N57XqTI

Stanley Brothers live...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piQrm2pPZBc

Workin' Man Blues  Merle Haggard & The Strangers

Jesus Was a Capricorn Kris Kristofferson

          which led me to "To Beat the Devil"

Country Girl The Ozark Mountain Daredevils

Tried so Hard The Flying Burrito Brothers 

Coal Miner's Daughter Loretta Lynn

One Hundred Years From Now (Gram Parsons Vocal Version) The Byrds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_Dc4by2zw0
....from Sweetheart of the Rodeo the sixth album by the Byrds August 30, 1968. Recorded with the addition of Gram Parsons, it was first major country-rock album by an established act...

Understand Your Man Dwight Yoakam

(Kindred Spirits - A Tribute to the Songs of Johnny Cash)

New County Beachwood Sparks

Take an Old Cold 'Tater (And Wait) 'Little' Jimmy Dickens
https://play.spotify.com/search/little%20jimmy%20dickens%20old%20cold%20tater 

Rocky Raccoon The Beatles

Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore John Prine
which led me to..."Jesus the Missing Years"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inr-jskxm1I

Consequently So Long Poco

Randy Lynn Rag Earl Scruggs
...which led me to some Japanese guys playing bluegrass... Not really great but heartwarming..
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Earl+Scruggs+Tuners&FORM=VIRE5#view=detail&mid=124528F6C76BF5674B35124528F6C76BF5674B35

.....which led me to "Flint Hill Special"
where he uses banjo tuners to maximum capability....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ5SzHd8-gY

Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line Waylon Jennings

Smoke That Cigarette Tex Williams
...which led me to Hot Rod Lincoln - Commander Cody.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R7l7nDuj1o 

Second Fiddle Buck Owens
....which led me to "Under Your Spell Again" Dwight Yoakum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZZUpp3aNhk

Real Gone Daddy Jim Flaherty's Caravan 

Old Home Place The Dillards 

Are You from Dixie (Cause I'm from Dixie Too)Jerry Reed

Dang Me Roger Miller

Sixteen Tons Tennessee Ernie Ford

More Links

http://prr.railfan.net/documents/ModernLocosandCars/

This link below contains some diagrams for the "Decapod", which has a firebox very similar to the 2-8-2 Mikado L1, with useful dimensions.
This is from the July 1917 issue of Railway Mechanical Engineer. An amazing, way ahead of its time, publication. It's hard to see the actual numbers. Guess I'm going to have to buy the actual issue.

http://prr.railfan.net/documents/pdf/PRRDecapodTypeLocomotive_1917_RME_370-373_DennisShort.pdf

National Model Railroad Association
http://www.nmra.org/library/periodicals.html

Where to find Railway Mechanical Engineer publications..
https://archive.org/details/railwaymechanica96newy

Blender Boolean Solution

So after much wrestling, I finally figured out a way to do a decent boolean on the roof of the Mikado 2-8-2.
I had to SOLIDIFY the Roof, then apply the BOOLEAN cutting object, as a DIFFERENCE.
Without SOLIDIFY, the boolean never worked correctly, and I just felt ignorant.
Suddenly it worked.

On the Bettendorf....
http://www.spookshow.net/trucks/bettendorf.html

http://www.canadasouthern.com/caso/NYC-MODELS-CABOOSE.htm
Good Timin' Jimmy Jones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=modfq47onwU

Northern Pacific Reseach

http://research.nprha.org/NP%20Cabooses/Forms/DispForm.aspx?ID=11

http://www.trainweb.org/s-trains/davis/davis.htm

http://railworksamerica.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=6811&start=60

http://the-blueprints.com/

Big Four Caboose NY Central.

http://madisonrails.railfan.net/lewman_drawings.html


http://nycshs.org/

Actual model maker...nice images....

http://mulletrivermodelworks.com/

Wheels and the Oil Tanker

I realized today I made a mistake on the wheels of the CS passenger. When I started a new file, using the wheels and basic lines as a template, I saw the distance between the inner "rails" to be NOT 4' 8.5".

These guys make and repair wheels axles trucks etc.
http://www.lyonsind.com/index.html

These guys make rail tank cars. They have diagrams in pdf form.
http://www.americanrailcar.com/RailcarManufacturing/Car.aspx?car=tank

http://www.railpark.org/stories/tank_car_cn_agrx-802.html


Lest I forget.
Getting the dome ends on the oil tanker turned out to be a major pain....
Eventually I solved it by using NURBS spheres in blender, creating circles and importing them into blender, whereupon I used RAW NUMBERS, not snap points, to solve it.

I don't like the 12'7" height the drawing asks for....

Not sure.

http://www.cumberlandmodelengineering.com/CADFiles.html


http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/narrow-gauge-passenger-cars-obj/784074

This Week

 Coupler Bracket Support from the Pullman at Prime Osborne

 A lettering test.

 Coupler animation.

Prime Osborne Center Jacksonville, the old train station.

Pullman drawings

Pullman collection of drawings

http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm4/index_nby_pullman.php?CISOROOT=/nby_pullman

Coupler support brackets

coupler support brackets

WJCT Friday Night

Frank Sinatra and the HiLos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI3CWug2OeU
The Krestrels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbMJoDU69xI

The Eagles
ELVISThe Eagles _ Trying to Get to You

ELVIS original

Good Vibrations over When the Levee Breaks.

Alton Ellis

WJCT tonight

Joe I speculated Morrisey doing this Beach Boys cover....

Beach Boys When I Grow Up to be a Man


I'll Be Doggone Marvin Gaye

T Bone Shuffle

Gloria John Lee Hooker Van Morrison

PDF to JPG converter

http://pdf2jpg.net/

Seven Days, a Knuckle, and a Caisson

 This took a week (not really a solid week) to figure it out this far.

 The knuckle on the Pullman at Prime Osborne

Just an idea to show the foundation of the NY side of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Revisions to Brooklyn Bridge

After some time spent doing "knuckles" and train stuff, and preparing for solo guitar work, back to the Bridge.
David McCullough's book specifies the size of each tower at top (276'6" level) to be 136x53.
My work is done at 135'10.5"x 59'. Not sure how I arrived at those numbers,(ed. I got 135'10.5" from Roebling's original drawings) but I'm willing to take David at his word.
(ed.No idea where 59' came from....52'10.5" is on Roebling's drawings.. )
There appear to be some basic differences between Roebling's original and the executed plan.
For instance, Roebling differentiates between the NY and Brooklyn towers in basic dimensions, but McCullough's stats say they are the same.

I'm inclined to leave level 261 3 thru 273 3 alone for now. A lot went into them and they look good.

Perhaps its time to review the whole drawing (since its been done in fits and starts for the last couple of months) and get some definite numbers for each level and see what elements in the drawing are either mistakes or nonessential......


z_Level 270 3 actual
 shows the diagonals from 261 3 to 270 3. At 270 3 there is an overhang and the overhang is denoted by
z_Level 270 3
April 19 temp
shows how I took the dimensions from level 141 6 and basically copied them to 270 3 for the overhang dimensions

z_Base to 12 ft
is just what it says.....level 0' to 12'
z_Level 1 renamed z_Level 19'6 to 59'6
is 19'6" to 59'6"
z_Level 2
is 67' to 103' 6"
z_Level 3 renamed z_Level 114'
is a flat plane at 114'
z_Level 4 renamed z_Level 114' to 116'
is 114' to 116'

Looks like a left out a lot of stuff on or about the roadway level......Then started meshing again using, maybe, the peaks of the arches for reference....Who knows....
That's what happens when you are your own project manager and the work is somewhat unorganized.


In the weeds!

The roadway should start at 120'4", according to my numbers.
The numbers in McCulloughs book just don't add up.....

"Height of roadway at towers 119'
Height of arches above roadway 117'
Height of towers above roadway 159'"

They just don't work....

Height of arches above roadway 117', appears to agree with other sources.....

In draftsight to set tolerances to perhaps, 1/32, use UNITSYSTEM.

Thanks Cheryl for Lena reminders....

Cheryl thanks for reminding about Satellite!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QSgNM9yNjo#t=53

and Lena Eurovision Songkontest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRgp-7Q4alU

and this....
on Ina's Night....the best....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk7WsWhgQxY

Lenka

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB2MBop0cLohttps

://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHpvlr_kG6U

Lena

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt5F7XTUR50

LINK FOR COLUMBUS STEEL

http://www.columbussteel.com/locomotive_couplers.html

Some Progress

Level 271'3 to 272'3

This level appears to be a repeat of the level 141'6"with some modifications, ie the setback in the middle sections which I estimated to be 2'5 1/4".

Back to the Bridge

After much hours of recording today, I decided to take a mental break and resume work on the NY tower of the Brooklyn Bridge. Haven't worked on it for a while, so remembering where I was at was a little confusing at first. Scanned some more drawings yesterday that gives me more accurate placement of the saddles.
Sort of stuck at the apx 274'3" level, right below the absolute 276'6" level. Sort of the widest portion of the tiptop of the tower.
I have reasonably accurate numbers for this  (274'3") level so I will work on it for a while.

Big Mistake

On April 5, my band fired me. Big mistake. Now I have to recreate myself as a musician and make more money. What were they thinking? Thanks to you I will have to make more money than I did before.

Display Order

DISPLAYORDER

An important command
Moves an entity front or back in the display order.

Basic template for rail. Not exact but close.

American Standard Gauge (4'-8.5') mainline railroad track and ballast assembly.

by Joseph Banks

Blender units discussion

http://www.katsbits.com/tutorials/blender/metric-imperial-units.php


As usual, like a lot of things, this turned out to be a simple and profound solution.
This really helps with difficult edits in Blender. Draftsight is so much more precise.

By simply changing SCALE under IMPERIAL in Blender to 0.0254 I'm able to cross platform between Blender and Draftsight.

I was having an issue editing the roadway to be one continuous span from anchorage to anchorage, but this technique solved it pretty quickly.

(addendum. Apparently it makes no difference. I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around this. Perhaps it has been a long day and my brain is not functioning in an optimum way.... Whatever. As Scarlett says, I will think about it tomorrow.)

2-8-2 Mikado

2-8-2 Mikado

I figured getting the rolling stock accurately placed would be enough for one day.

Railroad Track Dimensions

The dimensions of a railroad track are not hard to find. Railroad track rails are 6 5/8" tall, the top flange is 2 and 22/32" and the bottom flange is 5 and ?? inches. If you are picturing the capital letter ' I ' in your mind, you are on the right track. The upper portion of the rail is only 5/8 inches thick. Now the track width in the United States and Europe is 4' 8 1/2", or 1.435 meters.

Standard gauge in North America is 4' 8 1/2", measured between the inside edges of the rails.