Bumbleberry Creek Logging Co. R.R. (Edited Bauer Lumber)

[ozinoz]

The trees are DEFINITELY the best part - yours certainly looks different to mine
If I cant get it on sale by New Year I might have to bite the bullet, but fingers crossed. I always vowed I would never buy payware just to get assets for freeware, it had to be something I wanted in the first place, but Bubbleberry looks so great, rules are there to be broken

What happened with your Daylight?? Did you split a switch?

If I can find the time, what I would like to do is a heritage version of Sherman Hill. It wouldn't be proto, because there just arent the steam assets to use, but with Mikes 800's coming, along with the 4000 & 3900's as well as the Connie re-skin and those MSTS conversions, steam needs a place to reign... Will see

[Toripony]

The trees are indeed beautiful and I love the scenery work on the Bumbleberry. It probably depicts what the area looked like before 1900 (very dense and much more pine than today). But the reality was that by 1915-1920 there were no trees left. The way Pete (son of a Big Woods lumberjack, btw) depicted it in the BLC was closer to the ugly reality that no one likes seeing. By 1923 the timber industry along 100 miles of the Greenbrier subdivision was over. In 20 years Big Money out-of-state investors had cut everything standing and burned the rest. It's a story matching that of coal mining in demonstrating why WV'ians still have a distrust of "outsiders".

BTW, this thread title should read "Edited Bauer LUMBER" not "logging". For anyone unfamiliar with the wood products industry, the lumber company is usually a mill that buys logs and sells boards. A logging company cuts downs the trees and hauls them to the mill. A lumber company has a stationary facility that does business with multiple logging companies working out in the forest. Logging companies are typically small local-owned operations but lumber companies have grown into today's megacorps like Mead/Westvaco and Georgia Pacific.

I'm not being bitter here, just sharing some history and understanding of the area and why the distinction is very important to the people who live in our nation's forest lands.

P.S. More ugly reality... Pete once depicted a horse on a big spit roasting over one of the fire pits you see along the route... while it was shockingly prototypical for the era, I made him take it out.

[B-24_LIBERATOR]

What were the logging companies that worked with Bauer?

[Toripony]

Pete's dad and uncle ran a small logging company in the big woods of northern WI and I'm afraid that's all I know besides Pete's stories of life there when he was little. I learned from him that Winter was their prime logging season when they could haul the logs out on sleds. I've seen some amazing photos of the HUGE pile of logs they would haul on one load behind dozens of mules or horses.

[B-24_LIBERATOR]

I now have my HDD back and I'm working on getting it recognized by the computer, right now it says its "unallocated space"

[arizonachris]

I'm afraid "unallocated space" means the drive is empty.

[BNSFdude]

It says that probably because of a bad sector. I have this issue with my old HDD too.

[B-24_LIBERATOR]

I'm afraid "unallocated space" means the drive is empty.

Not sure how the drive could be empty, I only replaced the card thing on the outside.

[arizonachris]

Did you have someone fix the drive for you? And did they test it? I presume you are using Windows Explorer to look at the drive's contents. That may not work. This is under Win 7, right?

OK, here's something: http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-dev ... stion.html From reading that Thread and others, initializing may wipe the drive if there is anything on it. some say you need recovery software to get to the contents. All kinda confusing and contradictory, even to me.

[Chacal]

This probably means the partition has been deleted.
The data might be recoverable but it could be costly.

It could also mean that they changed the whole drive instead of just the circuit board, which is what they usually do, given the price of drives, and given that there is no guarantee that a new board will work with an existing drive.

[B-24_LIBERATOR]

I never sent the drive off, just the circuit board.

[arizonachris]

OK, then. Is this drive for a laptop or PC, and is it internally installed, or in an external hard drive to USB dock, or how connected? There is still the possibility that the drive's motor was/ is damaged, also the drive's platters may have been damaged. Best bet now is to try the suggestions in that link I posted, but do not try and initialize the drive.

Years ago, I had backed up my internal drive to an external hard drive in a USB enclosure. One of my internal drives died, and when I put that external drive into the PC, it looked to be empty. I don't recall exactly what I finally did to get it seem in Windows, but IIRC I just kept messing with Drive Management tools and finally Win 7 went "ding" and the drive showed up in Windows Explorer.

[arizonachris]

OK, digging this one up because I learn't sumthin' t'day. (hoping B-24's still lurking somewhere) Hoping that this project didn't die an early death and that clunky drive is still around.

Fire up that PC that this "bad" drive is connected to. Right click on Computer. Click on Manage. Click on Disk Management. If the "bad" disk doesn't show up in the middle pane, go over to More Actions and choose Rescan Disks. Maybe now Windows will pick up that other disk.

[B-24_LIBERATOR]

I'm still here, haven't been playing much after the crash, mostly playing Rise of Flight or with my model trains and worrying about my Jeep. I'll go ahead and try that out to-morrow and see how it works I really hope I can get BBCLC back up and running cause I'd hate to leave you guys chugging around an unfinished route!

[B-24_LIBERATOR]

It recognizes the disc but still says its broken... if it doesn't work then I might just pop it open because I'd rather try something than just trash it.