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[edit] About Katy Katy's LinkedIn page Download Katy's Resume as PDF About Katy

[edit] About John John's LinkedIn Page Download John's Resume as PDF About John

[edit] SP Coast Model Railroad Layout

John has been modeling the modern day Southern Pacific/Union Pacific, ACE and Caltrain operations in the SF Bay area for several years now; he has plans for a modest sized empire that captures both the flavor and the diversity embodied by each of them. In this reality, the SP/UP merger is still recent enough that the equipment and operating details haven’t yet become dominated by the suits in Omaha, and we will somehow find the time to do all the work waiting to be done…

[edit] Electronics Projects

Some people like scenery. Others are born modelers. John's interests lie in the technical side of things - electronics, operations, dispatching and the like. He has designed boards to control turnouts and detect rolling stock using Digitrax's LocoNet; other projects to build control panels, handle power districts and deal with signaling are still on the drawing board. The common theme for these efforts is JMRI - the Java Model Railroad Interface. JMRI is a set of programs that interface to your model train layout and let you manage and run it via control panels, automated scripts, and over the internet

[edit] Software Projects

A collection of various software projects John is working on: OpenSolaris_IRC_Bot, DangerShield, Arduino_Loconet, C/MRI and JMRI.

[edit] Restoring WP668 - an exterior braced wooden caboose

January, 2006 was a busy month - we went on a business trip to St Petersburg, Russia (brrr) and bought a caboose. OK, the caboose was in San Francisco, at the GGRM, but we were half a world away and under time pressure. The whole story can be found at wp668.org as well as on KatysBlog and Trains of Thought.

[edit] Photo Archives

Finally, our family photo archives are here and on Flickr. In addition to the mundain family stuff, there is also a large set of "work in progress" pictures recording the saga of WP668, my electronics projects, railroading, gardening and church activities. Private stuff is password protected, so don't feel that you are snooping :-)