Guest Speaker

Tonight we had Bob Withers. author and railroad historian, talk to us about the history behind the railroads and logging in WV.  He explained the difference between traditional steam engines and steam engines used in logging.  As many times as I've ridden the train at Cass, I didn't realize that the trucks were different.  I've learned so much AGAIN about WV that I had no clue about!  I think this class is going to be just as interesting as the Coal project!

Neat Apps to use. . .

I found a couple of cool apps that I think would be awesome to use.  The first one is called camscanner.  You can take pics with your tablet and save it as a pdf.  Whether it is a document or an actual picture, I think it can be used in this class.  For instance, you can take a picture of a leaf and create a pdf to use in class for classification purposes.  It also comes with a link directly to dropbox.

WV Forestry and Rail Project

This is my first blog on my new project that I am working on for this summer.  I am really looking forward to learning about logging in WV and the railroads that are so common place in our communities.  Usually it's something so near and in our view every day of our life that we know the least about.  I'm looking forward to learning more about something that has a lot of history in my state.  I went to a site to look up lumberjack terms to come up with something "catchy" for my blog . . . I couldn't resist using "Yardmaster"!!