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Photos: The Transcontinental Railroad's Golden Spike

On Road Trip 2009, CNET News reporter Daniel Terdiman encountered the spot where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met, finally forming a complete Transcontinental Railorad. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Railroad, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-07-04

The new railroad era?

The new railroad era?Is this a joke?Trains, the entire infrastructure is in shambles, the railroads died about 20 years ago.More Obongo socialism to put the future generation in debt for 100 years.good grief, someone call Al Gore, the train will destroythe environment and cause us to self destruct!The horror, the...

Tags: railroad, railroad era, new railroad era, car

Discussion threads 2009-04-16

What's a wealthy nation spend its money on?

We Americans can only harken back to the golden years of American wealth. Remember back when this nation could build the Interstate Highway system, put large and expensive craft into space, invest in research that led to the birth of this medium, the Internet? We can only hope...

Tags: China, Norway, Railroad, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Vertical Industries, Financial Planning, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-25

Sid Meier's Railroads demo 1.10 (Windows)

The greatest railroad building game of all time is back in a vibrant 3D world delivering exciting multiplayer options, in-game customization tools, streamlined interface and unmatched gameplay, that's easy to learn yet challenging to master. Combining the best of real-world and model railroads, Sid Meier's Railroads! puts you in charge...

Tags: SID, Microsoft Windows, Railroad, 2K Games, Sid Meier, Demo Scenario, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-01-07

Losing net neutrality will harm the IT vendors and startups

Losing net neutrality will harm the IT vendors and startupsPerhaps they're quiet......because they understand the folly of collectivism.We MUST have true Net NeutralityWe MUST have true net neutrality if the internet is to continue to flourish. If we don't, then the telcos and the cable companies will decide for us,...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, information technology, VoIP Traffic, Net Neutrality, telecommunications company, special consideration, railroad, cable

Discussion threads 2006-05-04

Avaya's IP solution to nuke waste accident risk

Fellow VoIP blogger and TMCnet President Rich Tehrani is at his company's VoIP Developer Conference in San Francisco.Last night, he put up a fascinating blog entry that he titled Avaya Touts Just In Time Communications.Rich recounts a session yesterday in which IP telephony solutions provider Avaya's director of application enablement...

Tags: Avaya Inc., Rich Tehrani

Blog posts 2005-08-04

Additional Resources

iTrain 1.2 (Mac)

iTrain offers an easy to use solution to control your model railroad with your computers, especially if you want to automate only parts of your layout and keep control of the rest yourself. For example automatic block control avoids collisions and you control which train is driving manually or fully...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Layout, Berros, iTrain, Client-server Architecture, Switchboard, Productivity, Apple Mac OS X, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-21

IBM is doing some serious training

IBM is working the Long Island Rail Road LIRR. LIRR will use IBM software to manage and maintain approximately 1,180 rail cars, locomotives, and associated components. The goal: improve operations and passenger safety. As part of a project, expected to be completed in 2012, IBM will assist...

Tags: Long Island Rail Road, Training, IBM Corp., Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-15

Next-gen AMD Radeon GPU powers six 30" displays

But will it Fold?My version of "Can it Play Crysis"What were they thinking?It takes 7680x4320 for UHDTV. This is what they should have shot for. It's such a shame to far just short of it. Oh well they can fix it when they double it because to be...

Tags: Games, TVs, Monitors & displays, AMD Radeon GPU, GPU, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

Text Express 2 (Italian) (Windows)

Climb aboard the Text Express for an all-new adventure that's full of word game fun. Form letters from chunks of coal to keep your train on track and at the station on time. Travel from city to city and expand your railroad empire in Adventure mode, or put your lexical...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, GameHouse, Games, Corporate Governance, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Software downloads 2009-09-08

Text Express 2 (French) (Windows)

Climb aboard the Text Express for an all-new adventure that's full of word game fun. Form letters from chunks of coal to keep your train on track and at the station on time. Travel from city to city and expand your railroad empire in Adventure mode, or put your lexical...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, GameHouse, Games, Corporate Governance, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Software downloads 2009-09-08

Text Express 2 (Spanish) (Windows)

Climb aboard the Text Express for an all-new adventure that's full of word game fun. Form letters from chunks of coal to keep your train on track and at the station on time. Travel from city to city and expand your railroad empire in Adventure mode, or put your lexical...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, GameHouse, Games, Corporate Governance, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Software downloads 2009-09-08

Text Express 2 (German) (Windows)

Climb aboard the Text Express for an all-new adventure that's full of word game fun. Form letters from chunks of coal to keep your train on track and at the station on time. Travel from city to city and expand your railroad empire in Adventure mode, or put your lexical...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, GameHouse, Games, Corporate Governance, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Software downloads 2009-09-08

NTSB News Reader 1.6.2 (Mobile)

NTSB National Transportation and Safety Board News Reader grabs the top stories from the NTSB and delivers them to your iPhone or iTouch. The news feeds covers accident synopses, press releases, aviation safety news, highway safety news, marine safety news, pipeline and hazardous waste safety news, railroad safety news, safety...

Tags: Mobile, Splaysoft, Safety New, Policies And Procedures, Transportation, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-09-02

"Meat has a carbon footprint?" This blogger must be ignorant!

One talkback on my locavore blog says; "Meat has a carbon footprint? I guess all the carbon in that cow comes from pixie dust, eh? Or maybe we drill oil out of the ground and grow cows out of it." Wow! Carbon footprint is a tough concept, I see....

Tags: Cow, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Footprint, Blogger, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-22

Foundation of our green future

I recently got to speak with Steve Vassallo, an exec at Foundation Capital. They're an investment firm firmly in the greentech camp. They've been in the VC business for 14 years. They don't just talk the talk, Foundation's putting their money where the matter is. The firm's...

Tags: Foundation Capital, Florida Power & Light, Construction, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-10

IBM: re-training for our future

IBM and railroads. This is not a non sequitor. I recently spoke with Keith Dierkx who works for IBM in their expanding business providing services for planning, construction and operation of high-speed rail. Dierkx is in the process of relocating to Beijing where he and IBM will...

Tags: China, Beijing, Rail, IBM Corp., Dierkx, Government, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-09

Are we re-training America?

Rail transit is the most efficient current method of moving more than few people over long distances. Yet the U.S. is far behind most wealthy nations in its speed and usefulness of its long-distance rail travel. There is some indication the U.S. is going to play catch-up. ...

Tags: U.S., Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-20

JMRI/DecoderPro 2.6.1 (Mac)

DecoderPro is a tool for programming model railroad DCC decoders. It provides a simpler user interface, grouping together choices and using text instead of bits and bytes. It works with the most common DCC systems: Digitrax, EasyDCC, Lenz, NCE, SPROG, Wangrow and Zimo.

Tags: Programming Model, Apple Macintosh, JMRI, DecoderPro, Productivity, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-07-13

Windows 7 Family Pack, Anytime Upgrade prices leak

Windows 7 Family Pack, Anytime Upgrade prices leakFamily pack - which family?The most silly thing about the family pack is that it allows 3 upgrades. Our family of 4 has 7 computers (2 netbooks, 3 notebooks and 2 desktops) with 3 of them also running virtual machines from time to...

Tags: Is it Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Windows 7 Family, Microsoft Windows 7, Home Premium, Home Premium Upgrade

Discussion threads 2009-07-08