So I wanted to do a quick post about the state of the blog. You may have noticed that a lot of the links and photos (at least more than usual) are broken. This is because over the last 12 months I first lost my backup web hosting due to Chinese web crawlers and then lost my main web hosting due to a thermal event. Fortunately I had had long since adopted a policy of using Google Photos to host the images presented directly on the pages, but some of my early essays relied entirely on the private server (along with all direct links).
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So while my private web hosting is likely to be out of commission through Christmas or possibly January, I am using the opportunity to go back through and convert all the major photo essays into using Google Photos. I'm pretty much starting at 2011 and working back with the PRR Main Line Survey and METRA Tower Survey getting first priority. I am also using this to fix any other problems with the pages like factual errors or omissions (for example on the Main Line Survey I completely forgot CP-UN). I am NOT updating the pages to reflect current reality, they will remain creatures of their time.
Thank you for your patience. I'm sure many long time viewers can remember similar outages in the past. We got through those and I'll get through this one. Still, I could use another backup host so if anyone has the ability to give me a free account on a webserver somewhere please send me a message ;-)
Also, if someone needs any particular page fixed sooner, again message me and I'll move it to the front of the line. Thanks for all your support over the years, I really appreciate it!
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