{"id":396,"date":"2011-03-17T22:05:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T22:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/ponderings\/?p=14"},"modified":"2011-03-17T22:05:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T22:05:41","slug":"the-railroads-a-comin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/17\/the-railroads-a-comin\/","title":{"rendered":"The railroad&#8217;s a-comin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m taking a short break from the main blog (we all need a bit of a breather now and then, don&#8217;t we?) but that probably means I&#8217;ll be updating over here (and on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Mar_SL4Nowt\" target=\"_blank\">Mar&#8217;s Twitter account<\/a>) a bit more.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Mar&#8217;s landlord contacted her about something new that&#8217;s going to come through the region where her home &#8211; and the Newbie Haven there &#8211; sits: a pretty cool multi-region railroad project that&#8217;s being built. I&#8217;d noticed the bridge near the front of the house, but it wasn&#8217;t until I raised draw distance and cammed <em>behind<\/em> the house that I saw the track stopping behind it. Eek!<\/p>\n<p>However, it sounds like an interesting project that will be fun for newbies and oldbies alike to ride (I sure as heck am looking forward to having a go on it!) so I&#8217;m happy to make the few small changes that my landlord requested. I won&#8217;t be losing any prims, but the cottage that houses the Newbie Haven will just need to be moved a tad. We think that a 90\u00c2\u00b0 anti-clockwise rotation will be enough, and will leave plenty of space in front of the house for a landing spot between the house and the tracks.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the track location as it appears on the main map:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/ponderpics\/railroad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"243\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hop behind the cut for a bigger, closer picture showing the railroad and how the cottage will probably be moved.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I&#8217;ll be editing the notecard given out in the Newbie Haven so that it includes some information about the railroad.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/ponderpics\/railroad01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"742\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m taking a short break from the main blog (we all need a bit of a breather now and then, don&#8217;t we?) but that probably means I&#8217;ll be updating over here (and on Mar&#8217;s Twitter account) a bit more. Today, Mar&#8217;s landlord contacted her about something new that&#8217;s going to come through the region where her home &#8211; and the Newbie Haven there &#8211; sits: a pretty cool multi-region railroad project that&#8217;s being built. I&#8217;d noticed the bridge near the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/17\/the-railroads-a-comin\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[141],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-second-life","tag-mars-newbie-haven"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}