At the risk of getting your blood pressure up, let me just point out what I’m observing on this thread. You made a long post asking questions and somewhat suggesting that the railroad guys are doing it wrong. Other posters-including several railroaders- take the time to explain things to you and answer your questions.
You then get your nose bent out of shape because you apparantly didn’t get the answers you were looking for. Now you get the chip firmly planted on your shoulder and play the victim game. It probably should come as no surprise if no one takes the time to answer your questions in th
I’ll take anybody’s QNS&L ticket! Been on my ‘bucket list’ for a good many years now (along with the others up that way). Unfortunately, my ‘time off’ has been mainly in the winter. Surprisingly, I’ve run into 2 guys locally who are (different) planning commsion members, and who have ridden it - one I knew was a railfan (he’s had photos published in Trains and others in the region), the other I didn’t until that conversation. Been many good articles on it and the others in Trains and several other magazines.
YEAH, RIGHT; WELL, ONE OF WOULD BE TRESSPASSING, AND THE OTHER ONE WOULDNT, BECAUSE HE WOULDNT BE THERE!! I suspect the QNSL is glad that you are not on their property either.
OKAY, BALT, I am a reformed “non-capitalizer”… satisfied?? so, if i write in ALL-CAPS, people say, no, it looks like you’re angry… if i write in all “little letters” you “get on me” because you dont like THAT… so, i would say to you what “murph” said to me in another post in this thread: “MAYBE YOU COULD LEAVE WELL-ENOUGH ALONE”… so, if the advice is passed to me, could i pass it to you? do you guys accept advice as well as take it? how does it work for you?
BaltACD wrote the following post one month ago:
By the way - Capitalization, sentances and paragraphs were taught in school for a reason - to make your thoughts readable and understandable.
Really, guys, we’re going to start arguing about capitalization and sentence structure? I’m sure there are some fine spelling and grammar sites you can visit to fight about that stuff. (And there is almost no one here who is flawless enough in this regard to call anyone else out.)
I long have understood that if the various pointers Balt mentioned are followed it is much easier to follow the writer’s thoughts. This philosophy was not spelled out back when I was taught, in grammar school (now called “elementary school”), but my teachers endeavored to teach how to speak and write in such a way that the recipient would know what we intended the recipent to know.
This instruction continued through high school–and into college.
Over on FB, there was quite the discussion about whether there should be one space or two after a period. I learned two. Apparently some editors have conniptions when people use two spaces and will go through a piece and take one out.
Of course, it’s a moot point when it comes to HTML (and, probably forum code) as it removes all but one space anyhow…
I also learned long ago that white space is your friend.
I think a lot of the problem today comes from the texting world in which we live, where capitalization, punctuation, and format are optional, and may be seen by some as being elitist. And if that makes me an elitist, so be it!