It appears that the popular website rrpicturearchives.net has suffered a disc failure that will result in a long term outage. Based on forum posts, the owner has had to send one or more parts of the database RAID to a third party recovery service. Rpicturearchives.net is well known for availability issues, but this might cause it to be down for many months. I am posting about it as many of my posts make use of photos hosted on RRpicturearchives and as a result they will present as broken photo links. Hopefully the site will return to functionality, however if it vanishes for good I might be in a position to rehost some of the lost photos, although it would be a labor intensive process. As we have seen before with Blockstation.net and Mark Beij's site, many long time railfan web resources may be reaching the end of their tethers so where possible it might be worthwhile to save local copies of things you care about.
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