Tehachapi, CA

I am fotunate enough to be writing this post from the tehachapi loop in california. i had a 2 week business trip and decided to come up for the weekend. what a beautiful place. i highly recommend this spot for all railfans to visit. i wosh i had my camera!!!

Railfan Locations

I took the same basic usage that I have on http://www.whatstodotoday.com and applied it to http://www.rtprailfan.com. Essentially users can register with the site and post their railfan sites. I have posted several of my sites around North Carolina. Even though its centered around North Carolina, you can post locations for anywhere in the world. Pretty cool....

whatstodotoday_

I still haven't figured out how to get the adsense operating correctly but I did add Greensboro, NC and Winston Salem, NC to the database set. I am going to add Wilmington to the database set and then move on to Virginia. Hope the site gets picked up by Google soon.

Railfan Radio

Hi again,

RTPRailfan radio is up again. I've had it running for a few days and it seems like its operating correctly. There seems to be a lot of good scanning around the middle of the day, and during the day on weekdays is good. You can catch the Amtrak going through at 8:30 and 9:30 at night. Weekends are kind of slow sometimes. I'm still working on whatstodotoday.com. I'm having issues getting the Adsense to do what I want it to. I'm trying to figure out how to update the Adsense based on the updates from a MySQL database. What a pain.

RTP Railfan Mapping

Hi everybody,

Well, I haven't done much with the www.rtprailfan.com website much lately because I've spend 3 months on my new site http://www.whatstodotoday.com. This is a dynamic google maps site that required me learning the basics of javascript, php, mysql and refreshing my html and css. That was a lot to learn. I'm definitley not an expert but I have a better understanding of how they work. Anyways, one of the things I added to www.whatstodotoday.com is a "railfan" type. I don't want to go into the specifics of the site, check out http://www.whatstodotoday.com/about_whatstodo.html to see a quick overview. However, the point is railfans currently in the Raleigh or Charlotte area can post google map locations with comments to the site. I think it would cool to add the radio frequencies of trains applicable to this area as well. I think I might add a function like this to www.rtprailfan.com, but this might be a while, as I'm still developing the whatstodotoday site. Anyways, check it out and let me know what you think.

RTPRailfan Forum taken down

Hi yall,

Been a while, been working on a new website. I took the RTPRailfan forum offline because it was getting to much junk and spam on it. It wasn't used very often anyways. I did put the RTPRailfan radio back up. I'll probably leave it up until summer when the heat is too much for the computer in the attic. By the way, I'm setting up a new site called whatstodo_. Should be an interesting site for the Raleigh area at first. I'm just getting the last issues worked out and then I should be good to go.

See ya soon...

Google Maps and railfan pictures and videos

A new feature on http://www.rtprailfan.com/, there is a page that allows you to mark your own photos and videos on google maps. I just started this so I'm not sure if its fully operational but feel free to give it a try. Here is the web address. Hope you enjoy it, I'm sure I will.