2020-August-28-Carter Railroad Museum August Heritage Day
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Abstract
JOHNSON CITY (Aug. 28, 2020) – The George L. Carter Railroad Museum, located in the Campus Center Building on the campus of East Tennessee State University, will reopen on Saturday, Aug. 29, for Heritage Day focusing on the vast expanses of the American West. The colorful and popular lines of the region west of the Mississippi will be highlighted on the reopening, which will be operated under the specific health guidelines instituted by the university. All visitors will be required to wear masks while on the ETSU campus and in its buildings, including the railroad museum. There will be directional signage in place to promote physical distancing and for safe traffic flow inside the galleries and corridors. The number of visitors will be restricted to 10 persons in each of the two galleries and time spent in the galleries will be limited to approximately 15 minutes in each. The colorful, popular lines of the West Pictured here is the meeting of the first transcontinental railroad was at Ogden, Utah, a desolate location north of the Great Salt Lake. Replicas of the engines continue to repeat the noted moment. (Photo by Fritz Stunkard, quartermilestones.com Rail Heritage Archive.)Pictured at top: Day or night, trains ran coast-to-coast. Here, two Southern Pacific engines await the call during a special photo event in the 1980s. (35mm slide courtesy quartermilestones.com Rail Heritage Archive.) A preregistration link is provided to encourage patrons to schedule a time to visit: https://tinyurl.com/y3ba5uto. For the added safety of all visitors, the Little Engineer’s Playroom will remain closed until further notice. Following the completion of the first transcontinental route in 1869, western railroads crossed some of the most dramatic scenery in the world, resulting in the creation of specialized equipment epitomized by giant steam engines, multiple-unit diesels and huge landmark-level infrastructure works. Once finished, these passages stretched from the Canadian coast in British Columbia to San Diego, and Heritage Day visitors will be able to see replicas of some of these lines in action thanks to participating members of the Mountain Empire Model Railroaders club. “Nobody can dispute the value railroads played in building a cohesive and united nation, many miles of which were created through rugged wilderness by teams of European and Asian immigrants looking to the new world for a better life,” says Geoff Stunkard, the museum’s Heritage Day coordinator. “This process gave way to immense opportunities through employment and agriculture, through business opportunities in raw materials and manufacturing, and through tourism to remarkable places like Yellowstone and Yosemite. Today, the breadth of the nation is still bridged by railroads.” The aspect of tourism is not lost on fans of these lines such as the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific. In addition to amenities, they used style and color to attract potential customers, like the War Bonnet and Daylight paint schemes. The reality of rugged terrain meant highly developed horsepower units like the 4-8-8-4 wheel-arrangement of the Union Pacific’s Big Boy steam engine, the world’s largest, and experimental gas turbines that superseded them. Models of these trains are popular and some will be in operation by volunteers on the museum’s 24x44 foot HO scale layout. The Carter Railroad Museum is open Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Heritage Day is held the last Saturday of each month. There is no admission fee to the museum, but donations are welcome. The museum is also seeking artifacts for its displays, including the newest addition dedicated to the “Tweetsie,” which is open for guided tours during event days. In addition to the displays, there is also a growing research library, and an oral history archive is being established as part of the museum's programs. For more information, visit www.etsu.edu/railroad. The Carter Railroad Museum can be identified by a flashing railroad-crossing signal at the back entrance to the Campus Center Building. Visitors should enter ETSU’s campus from State of Franklin Road onto Jack Vest Drive and continue east toward 176 Ross Drive, adjacent to the flashing RR crossing sign. For more information about Heritage Day, contact Dr. Fred Alsop at 423-439-6838 or alsopf@etsu.edu. For disability accommodations, call the ETSU Office of Disability Services at 423-439-8346.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.005 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".