I have started a post over at Trainorders reguarding some questions I have about the famous F40 locomotive line.

Here is a link to the post. Within this post, there are some links to pictures.

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?4,1061891

NateF40Amtrak

Hello and Happy Holidays to all!

Another year is about to come to a close and there are improvements on the way to the website. Clevelandtrains is in its 4th or 5th year of operations. The first four years was spent over at trainweb.org. While the site was hosted there, about 18,000 folks was able to pay homage there. Now since I been on my own hosting the site, about 2,500 folks passed through to Clevelandtrains.net. So maybe next year, I can attract about 25,000 folks to the site alone. That is a huge goal, but I know it can be reached.

One idea that I shared sometime back was about the web cam. I will work very hard to try to make that happen. There are plenty of lines around and in Cleveland that draws plenty of action. So stay tuned.

2006 will be a big for fanning in Ohio thanks to the Ohio Central and NHRS. I hear that this is going to be a week long event. Private passenger cars from all over will meet up on the OC. Plenty of steam and diesel locomotives will be on hand. So look for a lot of coverage on this great event shaping up from me on the site to come.

The site is now running on a new server running the latest in web hosting software. I am not sure what will become of the old one use. Both are configured and are ready to go at a moments notice. I am completely ready to handle growth. Also, I am currently thinking about hosting websites. Look for more information to come on that soon.

That is all for now.

NateF40Amtrak Out!!

Well, there three sides to every story, your side, my side and the truth. Here is a link to David Gunn's verison of the story about his firing.

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?4,1035922

Lead, follow or get pushed out of the way.

That is what happened today to David Gunn, the CEO of Amtrak. He was relieved of his duties. The board felt he was not taking the company in the right direction. You can read and decide for yourself at :
http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Amtrak/am2Copy/News_Release_Page&c=am2Copy&cid=1093554026306&ssid=180
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/09/AR2005110900643.html

David Gunn was pushed out of the way.

Well, if you are wondering why Clevelandtrains.net is running alittle slower, it is due to a server upgrade. I am currently upgrading the webserver from to Windows 2000 Server to Windows 2003 server. My server that is being rebuilt is a Compaq Dl360 G2 running dual P3 1400 chips with 1284 of ram with Windows 2k3 server. I had to transfer files over to a HP DC7100 workstation runing a P4 3.0 hyper threading with 512 of ram server. This temp server is not all that great of a performer. I think it is due to everything being on a single hard drive. It is a newer SATA drive, 40 gigs.

So hopefully, I will have the whole site back over at on my true server Monday or Tuesday. Once the site is back there, the performace should improve greatly. If you are thinking about making a workstation a heavy duty server, forgetaboutit.

I am thinking about adding some features to the site. More to come on that soon.

NateF40Amtrak