Perhaps this can clarify and answer some of the questions that have been asked.
80 ‘looks’ and no comments since 11:00 A.M.
Check all the threads and you’ll see there’s always a lot more views than replies.
I guess some folks are just shy about commenting. Anyway, you should find all those views gratifying. Shows people are interested.
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Sometimes I’ll click on a thread just so the “unread red” goes away.
And sometimes the threads that have gone unread have done so because I have virtually no interest in the subject matter. The threads on the upgrading of the Transcon, f’rinstance. There’s nothing wrong with the threads, they just don’t interest me. It’s clear that the folks who are posting on them are interested and involved in the topic.
I suspect there are others in the same boat.
cotton belt, for some reason this site is not allowing me to respond to PM’s. I can read them but cannot respond.
Check ‘SETTINGS’ in your profile - you may have ‘Conversations’ turned off.
You wouldn’t show the ability to send or receive PMs at all if that were so.
This is a known bug in certain browsers (Firefox perhaps the most notorious). Even though the function works correctly, the browser display ‘forgets’ to display the text entry point and cursor in the little reply window and it’s impossible to answer. I am reduced to running the Opera browser on an obsolescent Macintosh to work around this infuriating problem. I believe there are other browsers that don’t have this problem; Google Chrome may be one but I prefer to have as little to do with it as possible.
Note that in most cases your computer will happily run multiple browsers and you can use one just to keep the PM window open for any messages that come in or need to go out.
I use Firefox on my PC and have no trouble with PMs.
The mobile version of the Kalmbach software does not allow me to reply to PMs, I am told that I “am not authorized to view this conversation”.
Only some versions have the ‘issue’. (I don’t remember if it’s 61 or 62 that starts breaking on Mac). I do notice that Quantum 68.0.1 64-bit now has a text-entry window that appears to take input.
You get around this by selecting ‘view full site’ which gives you a teeny tiny but functional place to view and respond. The problem then becomes that you can’t respond to posts with long URLs or pictures in them, because the lateral position of the ‘reply’ button moves so far to the right you can’t select it even with the device in ‘landscape’… workaround there is to scroll up or down to a post with an accessible reply button and proceed from there. Having taken good notes on paper.
I find it incredibly useful to have a wireless keyboard linked to a mobile device for replies; in fact, I found a supplier of iPhone-compatible wired keyboards that actually make it possible for normal humans to cut and paste text in iOS.
I just reload the page using the “view desktop site” feature, as Chrome calls it. I’ve actually gotten pretty good at typing using the tiny screen keyboard, but a larger plug-in one would be quite useful.
I have never owned a Apple product of any sort, and have no desire to.
If writing a book will help with someone paying attention…doubt it…
The recent online Trains newsletter advertises a book that seems to be a good descriptor of the problems that exist.
Railroad Collisions, by George Swimmer, CPA. endmrw0806191115
My attempt to help mitigate/eliminate Amtrak’s human error disasters is ‘out there’ as is their refusal to avail themselves of the experience of their veteran employees.
As stated previously, ‘Amtrak is an accident waiting to happen… again’ and when it does I will publicize, again, Amtrak’s refusal to heed the warnings that I and my fellow veteran employees have sounded. Perhaps one day someone somewhere will see the wisdom of Amtrak availing themselves of the experience of their veteran employees.
Maybe get a few of your fellow vetern employees together and talk to a few local congressmen. Try to get the union involved, also.
I have appealed to various politicians to no avail. I will however ‘trot out’ my warning missives after the next disaster occurs. I can only hope someone sees and understands them and takes action.
You must remember that there are politicians who would love to see Amtrak die. If a disaster is what it will take, they aren’t about to take action to prevent that disaster.
They aren’t going to fix something they don’t want to exist in the first place.
This is not about Amtrak dying it is about people dying.
So you are of the opinion that politicians would sacrifice human lives to achieve their agenda which is to ‘kill’ Amtrak???
Have I interpreted your statement correctly?
Politicians will sacriface anything - we are seeing it in every news cycle. Thoughts and prayers!
Politicians start unnecessary wars, what’s a lousy train accident to them?
You’re not kidding. Look at all the young people, the best young people we have, sacrificed over the years for the State Department’s regime change experiments.
I don’t agree with too many Democrats on anything, but Tulsi Gabbard’s spot on with that one! No more! Enough!