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Shore River's North Job departs from the interchange track with Conrail at Mannheim Yard.

Bruce

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Shore River North looking good Bruce!

I cleared off enough of the junk around the cement company to get a couple of quick pics So here is PRR PA1/PB1, Reading RS-3, and Jersey Central RSD-4/5 at the cement company. Still thinking about a runby. No sure if there will be a video.

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Bruce & Tom, cripes, you guys really bring your A game to this thread every week Applause , you guys are a tough act to follow Icon_e_biggrin .

My contribution, SD70M & SD60M roll through Rock Valley...
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Tough acts to follow,that's exactly how I feel Deano---another great start to this week---hope I haven't posted this recently.

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Ed - I am amazed at your steam locomotives and photos.

Charlie - Great town scene. Reminds of some of the central Pennsylvania towns I used to drive through when I was traveling for work. I used to have some of the buildings on the left. They got destroyed in a move a while back.

I was planning on doing a run-by that is a little different. It will be a few more photos than usual and will tell a little story. I need to organize the photos and upload them to the hosting site I use.
looking forward to it Tom Thumbsup
I was going through the photos and I am looking at between 20 to 25 shots. Part of me feels that so many would be highjacking the thread. I am kicking around the idea of a seperate thread with all the photos and posting a couple here as highlights.
In the meantime I do have these two cars I stumbled across on Ebay about a month ago. I had never seen anything like them before. They were labeled as pickle cars. I am going to replace the plastic wheels with metal and give them Kadee couplers. I will also do a light weathering. The trucks are old and should be replaced. They are metal with springs and look like they could be a problem down the road. Right now I don't have any extras so I will have to order some.

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Leetown hosts a variety of motive power including branchline,switchers and mainline locomotives.Here's a couple of less glamourous workhorses.

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(06-06-2020, 09:30 PM)tompm Wrote: [ -> ]...I do have these two cars I stumbled across on Ebay about a month ago. I had never seen anything like them before. They were labeled as pickle cars....

Those are Athearn cars, Tom, and the sprung metal trucks are very likely the original ones which came with the cars.
I had the open-sided version, in boxcar red with yellow tanks, but later decided to downgrade it to a MoW car, perhaps carrying water for lineside brush fires.
Later still, I re-built it as an older truss-rod pickle car, with some improved details.

I would post photos, but pictures from the "new & improved" photobucket will not show on this site.  Instead, the word "undefined" appears where the picture should be.

The photobucket pictures will appear on the MR Forums, but are very tedious to find (the "new" site has duplicated or triplicated the photos in my albums, and put each "album" on a single scroll-able page, which means that it takes much longer to find a particular photo.)  Once a photo is selected, the next step, after posting it somewhere, is to hit the "Back" button, which takes you right back to the beginning of that album, so that I can now re-scroll through six or seven hundred photos to find the next one that I want to post.

I will likely quit the MR Forums altogether, and my presence here will be somewhat curtailed.  Unless photobucket gets its act together, they will be gone, too.

For me to post photos here, as attachments, is also somewhat tedious, as each photo needs to be re-sized.  On this computer, that is done, as far as I'm aware, one photo at-a-time.

Anyway, enough of my rant...photobucket seems to have become deaf.


Wayne
Wayne, I have been using IMGUR, they are super easy to use, auto resize, you do NOTHING. The only thing is I am unsure just how much space you get on their site Icon_redface , so far I have had zero problems, and I have 149 pics on there so far, at NO COST. 

The heck with photobucket, they can suck an egg, I have been copying all my pics there and putting them in a folder on my desktop, "getting all I had on there back" I guess.
I never really had any issues with photobucket in the past, as they gave me a very good price on a package with unlimited storage space and unlimited bandwidth.  I had just over 5,000 photos there. 
Their technical support was always prompt and courteous, and any issues that arose were always dealt with promptly and efficiently.

However, the site has been bought-out, and they're currently doing an "upgrade", which has changed their "albums" from a pages format to a single page for each album.  On the pages version, you could start at either the first or last page, (if you remembered approximately where the photo you wanted was located) and get to that page quite quickly. When you found the photo and clicked on the img data, the picture was copied and could be pasted wherever you wished it to appear.  You could then return to the same page, and continue from where you left-off, or, simply jump to another page or another album.
The album all-on-one-page requires the user to scroll down through the photos from the beginning, until you find the desired one.  You then click on it to "view" it enlarged, then click again to "copy" it, and it can then be pasted wherever you wish it to appear...unless it's here on Big Blue, where the copied & pasted picture turns into the word "undefined"...in other words, no picture here, although it does work on the MR forums.
Then, when you wish to post another photo from the same album, perhaps one which was right beside the one you just posted, you're sent back to the beginning, so that you have to scroll all the way down again.  When I know that the photo is quite a ways down, the scrolling feature cannot keep up with my scrolling finger.

Exacerbating the problem is the fact that my "improved" account now has duplicates and/or triplicates of many of the photos in almost all of the albums, so instead of perhaps 200 photos to go through in an album, there may be 500 or 600 of them.  I could delete the extraneous ones, except one of those copies has been posted somewhere, perhaps months or years ago, and if I delete that particular one, that picture disappears from where it was posted.  Deleting the extra photos is also a one-at-a-time operation, so extremely time consuming.

In addition to the above quirks, some albums, which I know for a fact to be fairly large ones (17 pages-or-so in the old format) now show perhaps only a dozen-or-so photos.

I'm assuming that the site is still undergoing these "upgrades", so am trying to not over-react, but this is becoming very upsetting, as I find that photos are a good way to answer questions about the things we do in this hobby.  Without them, my ability to share my knowledge is compromised.  Yeah, I could still write it out, and you could read until your eyes begin to glaze over, but it won't be long until you'll just give up.  I'm starting to feel the same way.

I am going to copy this, and submit it to photobucket, as it includes most of my concerns.  Change, merely for the sake of change, is not necessarily a good thing.

Wayne
Wayne - I will second Deano on IMGUR. I have been using them for over two years. I started using them when I needed a host for screen shoots for after action reports (aka stories) for Crusaders Kings II gaming forum. When I started back up here I tried to use Rail Images but the photos wouldn't show here so I use IMGUR here. I have over 1700 photos there now.

Ed - Leetown looks great. Keep the steamers coming.
I have over 60,000 railroad related pictures I have taken the past 45 years as well as thousands of historical photos. I have everything, including videos backed up on Google Photos, which is free. Sadly you can't use it to share a link so it won't work with Blue.  Having the limit on Blue increased to 10 photos per post has been a big help, but if would be even more user friendly if you could select all of your photos that you wish to upload like you can on most other sites. I don't upload multiple photos often here for that reason. 

I have been very conscientious about renaming photos as I download them from my cameras.  I start with the yyyy/mm/dd and add a description after. I have gone back and renamed all my older pictures with this format. I have 4 back up hard drives as well as DVD's. (I lost some stuff in 1998 and vowed it would never happen again).

I use a little right click program called "agent ransack" which will search a 2 tb hard drive in 5 minutes the first search and seconds after that.  It will search for your term any where in the file or folder name, thus if I want to find a picture of the day I search for the date with only month and year. Here is an example: search for 6/15 and this is what the results look like. [attachment=34227]

You can right click on any folder and just search that folder or you can select an entire drive, or for that mater your whole PC. The trick is in naming the files as you put them on your PC.  

If I want I can select every item, right click and copy every thing that is found and place it in a folder. 

I don't intend to hi-jack the thread and if anyone is interested I will start a thread on how I rename and use a couple free programs to help get my Pictures organized. 
If only there was some way to organize my trains and parts as easy.  Icon_e_biggrin 
Charlie
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