Hello testing this link and see if you can see my photo’s. let me hear some feed back please http://community.webshots.com/scripts/editPhotos.fcgi?action=viewall&albumID=321957216&ran=23610
JEFF GOVIN
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ok I will try that
I don’t think people should need to log on.
You need to go to the site without logging in, then use that URL. If you can’t get to the site without a login, neither can we.
…Wonder why…this forum has created a situaion ref: Installing photos…that confuses soooo many of us folks. Computers…capable of doing almost anything and this system has to be arranged as such…?? It seems almost no one can post photos at the beginning without seeking help once, twice and or asking where do I go to do this and that…etc…There must be a more simple way to set it up…Surely.
Got the same message when I tried.
Must be my programming background, plus my experience with HTML (which the forum code is a version of) - I didn’t have a problem once I saw the coding.
A quick primer on forum (and HTML) code: There are two parts necessary for every “tag” - the beginning and the end. The end is the same as the beginning, except it has a slash in front of it. I have to use the wrong bracket (correct = [ and ]) to illustrate, but {i}word{/i} yields word. You can do the same thing with color, size, and several other attributes. And you can use the buttons above the window, too. Take a few minutes to look over what you get when you click the “forum code” link. It makes it all a lot simpler.
The thing that always hangs people up on posting pictures here is the requirement to have the image available on a webserver somewhere. I’ve hosted a few, but I’m really borrowing space on a website I administer when I do it, so can’t make it a habit. There are other folks who will host an image, and lots of sites where you can post images as well. It might be nice if there was a spot where you could type or paste the url of your image and have it inserted in your post, but that would require a certain amount of rewriting of the code of the forums themselves, and now you’re talking $$$.
Sorry like others got a error message. [;)][;)]
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Tree…I’m sure anyone with…as you say, programing experience and the forum Code listings and all the way through the itinerary of the process is easy for someone that is literate in these computer processes…it’s easy to figure what is required…But for many others on here {and I include myself in the group}, that keep asking “how” and “what to do” to get a photo posted with their post…it may be never, never land. Yes, I can “through this computer around” easy enough to dig up info and communicate where necessary and play with my photos, etc., etc…but the above simply makes installing photos a bit cumbersome at best…for us novice folks. That’s all I’m saying.
Modelcar,
you seem to be wishing that trains.com would allow users to upload photos to the forum and their servers would then host the photos. Serving photos can use a lot of network bandwidth and storage space if the files are large, and perhaps trains.com decided they didn’t want run a picture post.
So far as I can tell, the only way to display photos here is to put them on some other publicly accessible web site and put links to the photo within the forum [ img ] code.
For example [ img ] http://www.esm.psu.edu/~ajmiller/trainpics/circustrain.jpg [ /img ] will cause the post to contain a reference to the picture circustrain.jpg that I have on my department’s web server. To make the code work, the spaces between the square brackets and the code ‘img’ must be removed.
Personally, I prefer URLs instead of trying to embed the photo in the post. I have a slow connection and I don’t like lots of pictures loading automatically. If someone just posts the URL, I can click on it if I want to see it. It really bugs me when people have large images showing up in their signatures.
Anyway, if you must embed, here goes, [ img ] http://www.esm.psu.edu/~ajmiller/trainpics/circustrain.jpg [ /img ] remembering to remove the spaces in the forum code:
Each time someone views this post, the image is not being downloaded from trains.com, but rather is downloaded directly from my department’s server www.esm.psu.edu to the viewer’s browser.
Thanks AJ…just one thing…confused with the line…“remembering to remove the spaces in the forum code”…
Your circus train photo sure shows up with a full page display…Great. If you took this photo you must be familiar with the location…What’s the story on the non straight track in the distance…Even looks like the track the train is on makes a bend in the distance…All on ROW that appears like the track should be straight down through the distance.
I stuck a space between the square bracket [ and the code img in the example. The reason is that if I type it without the space, the forum will interpret it and try to insert HTML in its place.
Web pages are made of of code called HTML which stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. This fancy name means that the source text of the page is mixed with code called Markup Tags which, for example, look like this: Text to be made boldface. The text between and will appear in boldface when displayed by a web browser and the and tags themselves will be hidden. The markup tags contain formatting information so that the browser knows how to display the content.
In HTML an image is inserted using the tag and it looks something like this:
. The text following the code SRC= is the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the image file, which tells the browser to download the file circustrain.jpg from the webserver www.esm.psu.edu. The browser displays the image and hides the code in the tag.
So what does the forum server do? It has to send HTML code to your web browser, so it takes the posts which are mostly plain text and combines them with HTML and sends that to your browser when you view a trains.com web page.
To get special formatting of text, the forum allows you to place formatting codes that are delimited by square brackets [ and ]. The forum code is similar to HTML in concept, except it is greatly simplified. To get boldface text in forum code you would type [ b ] text in bold [ /b ] and the forum will then convert these codes to proper HTML. Now about the spaces. I said [ b ] text in bold [ /b ] would caus
The picture was taken yesterday morning (2005-04-18) as the Ringling circus red train departed Lock Haven Pa. I had followed it from Bellefonte Pa to Lock Haven on the Nittany & Bald Eagle. The circus was here in State College over the past weekend. The view is toward the west, and I was standing on the abandoned ROW of the Beech Creek line of the NYC. The Beech Creek was higher in elevation here and gave a good view of the NS Buffalo line (former PRR) from Lock Haven.
The tracks do bend around a floodgate in a levee that protects Lock Haven. You can see the right door of the floodgate. It looks like a greenish grey box just above and to the left of the signal head. I think the right track is the main line, and the left track is a passing track/yard lead. There’s a small yard at Lock Haven where NS interchanges with the Nittany & Bald Eagle.
Here’s a closer look at the floodgates. You should also be able to see the Nittany engines behind the NS engines in the yard.
Lock Haven is situated between the west branch of the Susquehanna River and the Bald Eagle Creek and is susceptible to flooding, so some years ago they built levees along the river bank and creek to provide flood control. Bald Eagle Creek is really about the width of a small river at this point as it joins the Susquehanna just east of Lock Haven. Last fall because of the rain from hurricane Ivan, there was a lot of flood damage all over Pa., but Lock Haven did pretty well.
In the previou
AJ…Thanks for the great layout and description of process regarding posting photos, etc…I’ll take some time and soak that in.
Now…on your latest picture…First of all it is great. And now I know what is happening and somewhat where you are located. Lock Haven has been a place we visited for over 50 years…In fact when we made our first visit to the city of lock Haven we were driving an almost new 49’ Chevrolet, so it’s been a few years.
Had an Aunt and Uncle living there we visited so have been there quite a few times over the years. I’m very familiar with the flooding problems they have had and knew they have taken some steps to overcome the worst of it. Even building some buildings on “stilts”…and just car parking under them, etc…
Got to visit the Piper plant years ago when it was badly damaged by floods…I’m thinking that might have been back in 54’ or 55’ but not sure but the water got into the plant’s first floor and ruined many planes on the assembly line and they all had to be scrapped…etc…
I had forgotten about the flood control doors located at various places. Question: Hasn’t that ex. Pennsylvania route that goes I believe up to Buffalo…hasn’t that been downgraded to local traffic only or has that come back to life…? Seems in my memory that was a double track line…
I was over at the Lock Haven airport years ago when they were testing the then prototype Piper Tri Pacer and the day I was watching they were field testing it’s landing gear doing all kinds of landings etc…
Saw the Friedom Train there when it was traveling around the country…Believe that one was being pulled by engine #201…{could be wrong on that, I’m relying on memory}…
On our trip up to Lock Haven from Somerset, Co…we’d travel along old 220 and the Nittany and Bald Eagle would parallel along that road for quite a ways and marveled at the still present Pennsylvania type signals still in place…
Anyway, enjoyed both of your photos and
I think today, the Piper plant is just a museum. I haven’t ever gone in there.
I believe it is single track today. I don’t know how many trains use it each day, but I don’t think it’s too many. The busiest part of the line in Pa. is Harrisburg-Lock Haven. I haven’t been too lucky rail fanning in Lock Haven. The best bet is to try to find Nittany & Bald Eagle or other North Shore system action, but I don’t think they operate on weekends. I really need to get a scanner to do any serious train finding up there.
North of Lock Haven, the Buffalo line is really remote. The line interchanges with RJ Corman at Keating, so I know there is substantial eastbound coal traffic on the line, and the line also connects to Buffalo & Pittsburgh (BPRR) on the ex-Pittsburg & Shawmut (PSR) line at Driftwood. There was also a connection at Emporium with the Allegheny & Eastern (ALY), and the SPV map shows that NS had trackage rights on this line to Erie. Genesee & Wyoming is the owner of the BPRR, PSR and ALY, and the last time I checked their website, the PSR and ALY have been merged into the BPRR and the system map no longer shows a connection at Emporium. The ALY line was PRR’s line to Erie and was part of the Philadelphia & Erie. South of Emporium the Philadelphia & Erie is today’s NS Buffalo line. I’ve never been to Emporium, but I
Terrific pix’s![:o)][:)]
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The picture was taken yesterday morning (2005-04-18) as the Ringling circus red train departed Lock Haven Pa. I had followed it from Bellefonte Pa to Lock Haven on the Nittany & Bald Eagle. The circus was here in State College over the past weekend. The view is toward the west, and I was standing on the abandoned ROW of the Beech Creek line of the NYC. The Beech Creek was higher in elevation here and gave a good view of the NS Buffalo line (former PRR) from Lock Haven.
The tracks do bend around a floodgate in a levee that protects Lock Haven. You can see the right door of the floodgate. It looks like a greenish grey box just above and to the left of the signal head. I think the right track is the main line, and the left track is a passing track/yard lead. There’s a small yard at Lock Haven where NS interchanges with the Nittany & Bald Eagle.
Here’s a closer look at the floodgates. You should also be able to see the Nittany engines behind the NS engines in the yard.
Lock Haven is situated between the west branch of the Susquehanna River and the Bald Eagle Creek and is susceptible to flooding, so some years ago they built levees along the river bank and creek to provide flood control. Bald Eagle Creek is really about the width of a small river at this point as it joins the Susquehanna just east of Lock Haven. Last fall because of the rain from hurricane Ivan, there w
Here’s a shot I took while chasing a loaded PP&L train north on old US 220 between Julian and Unionville. You can see just how close the track is to the highway.
It took me about three and a half minutes to pass the train and I was probably going about 60mph.
Imagine driving this road at night with a train coming toward you. You would see headlights directly in front of you. The train would roar by on your right side at a relative speed of 100 mph.
AJ…You mention of the N & B E railroad being rather straight up through that valley such as near Port Matilda…True and of course it’s because of such a nice {and beautiful}, valley all the way up through there to Lock Haven…Always liked that trip up through there…very scenic. And of course the railroad being in view so much.
On the Piper plant…had a chance another time when production lines were running in the plant and got to visit all floors of the operation…Uncle and Aunt both worked there.
Another interesting location there in town is over at the edge {Lock Haven side}, of the Susquehanna river you can find where the old Locks were built and the canal cut right across town…I imagine parts of that can still be seen…The location is between the bridge {in center of town and the one in the direction of the airport…
…Ah yes…that looks familiar…Nice Pic, AJ…and the mountain range would be on your right stretched all along the valley all the way to Lock Haven…Beautiful valley. Problem the times I traveled up that valley I saw very few trains…But years ago, years ago…traveling from L H north west to Renova and Emporium I remember stopping and taking pic’s of steam engines pulling coal trains as we crossed the railroad on a bridge…Remembering it was probably an MI…believe that’s what they were called…Had large air tank on front of the engine…Still have those photos around here someplace.