Pittsburgh to Indianapolis

Truth be told, Indianapolis may be the location I’m LEAST interested in.

Having said that, I’ve been there once, and that was for the Indy 500, which was totally awesome. I’ve been to many auto races, of all types. But when we first went to the track, for the Friday practice session, the first time I saw cars entering Turn 1, at those speeds, it was mind-blowing. I’d never seen anything like that before.

Then, in the race, 33 cars doing it. OMG.

Indianapolis is a nice enough town, seeing its Amtrak station from the train won’t beat that visit!

You don’t have to go that far back, in the early 50’s He would have had SIX trains. The following is from the Oct. '52 Official Guide.

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You’re lucky. I get a full Forbidden 401 error, complete with a call to ‘start a new browser session’.

From the look of what I see of the URL before things get nasty, the file is sitting in an Xfinity ‘appsuite’ mail account, perhaps securely linked to his computer – you can’t paste link session information directly from there like that!

My bad, I wanted to paste a copy of the Official Guide and tried to copy a PDF and could not so thought I could print a photo. And since I could see it, I forgot that I am not inserting an image, I am inserting a link. What do I need to do to make an scan or a pdf visable to others.

Hey, I’ll take tour word for it!

I may be wrong, but I think the only way to show a photo is to link to it.

Be sure the scan save is in one of the JPEG formats, then upload it to any photo site (where it should appear, and be linkable in various ways, like any other JPEG image.

PDFs can be more involved, especially if some sort of protection has been set on them. While there are often good reasons to ‘print to PDF’ to generate word-processing file output and images that everybody can be set up to read ‘free’, it is NOT as good an idea as making a good JPEG as far as this forum is concerned. Some programs have the ability to ‘save’ a PDF as JPEG – I believe in some cases an actual JPEG-format image is embedded in PDF code – and I think some sites can ‘serve’ PDFs, although I don’t know if they have native ability to do so with Kalmbach’s link or embed facilities.

If you have a hosting site that takes PDFs (Yahoo Groups was one) just paste the URL to it using the little ‘chain’ tool, or paste the embed code without using the tool if the site supports that.

Man, I priced a bedroom on the Cardinal, Chigago-Washington for a late June trip, two adults, one way.

It is over $1100!!! I had no idea. Wow. [:|]

Our railfan friend who plans our annual trip to PA this year, has us taking the Capitol Ltd. to Pittsburg, then Pennsylvanian to Altoona, as he wants us to go around Horseshoe Curve, then pick up the rental car and drive around to see places. On return drive to DC and take Cardinal back to Chi. We went to New River Gorge in 2015 on our way home from riding with #611 and we have been at the top and now we can see it from the bottom. He had it scheduled for last june, but cancelled of course, but we are set to go for mid-July. I rode the last north Hoosier State in 2019 with railfan group, many rail advocates on the trip and at the stops. The conductors were going to work the Cardinal, which was already running 3 times a week.