Showing posts with label website. Show all posts
Showing posts with label website. Show all posts
Saturday, August 9, 2025

A Superb Web Resource for Railroad Defect Detectors

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 It's not often that one gets a new web resource that isn't annoyingly flawed (yeah you Open Railway Map) or compromised by enshitif...
Friday, June 6, 2025

Open Railway Map's Signaling Layer is Hot Garbage

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Open Railway Map (ORM) is a great resource that recently came on the scene to allow for fast identification and tracing of railway lines, r...
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Sunday, January 12, 2025

Valleysignals.org.nz Fades Into History

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While performing research on an upcoming post I regrettable discovered that the excellent Hutt Valley signaling website (aka Valley Signals...
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Sunday, December 22, 2024

RRPictureArchives Long Term Outage

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It appears that the popular website rrpicturearchives.net has suffered a disc failure that will result in a long term outage.  Based on for...
Saturday, March 16, 2024

THE Source for LIRR Tower Information

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The rather secretive nature of the LIRR has always made it somewhat difficult to find information about its signaling infrastructure and int...
Friday, January 14, 2022

German Stellwerke Blog and Its English Mirror

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Although they have been prominent in my sidebar for many years, I wanted to give another shoutout to the German equivalent of this blog, Von...
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Friday, May 28, 2021

10 Years of The Position Light - A Milepost

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Not sure anybody noticed, but May 28th marks a decade since I started this blog as a place to archive long form signaling related content I ...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Photo Archive is Back (For Now)

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I just wanted everyone to know that I used some of my corona virus time to get the remaining years of my photos archive back up where it can...
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Sunday, February 2, 2020

Trackside Photographer Profiles NY Central Towers

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The Trackside Photographer is a great publication and I've have been tapped a few times to provide content there.  Recently I noticed t...
Sunday, December 15, 2019

Blockstation.Net Goes Down

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Another indispensable web 1.0 resource for those interested in Amtrak's NEC operations appears to have gone down in the last few weeks. ...
Sunday, October 20, 2019

Yahoo Shutting Down Yahoo Groups

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For those you who who either didn't get the e-mail or don't log into their old Yahoo or Hotmail accounts anymore, Verizon, corporate...
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Sunday, August 11, 2019

Website: Hidden Trackside Treasures Of Southwestern PA

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I wanted to take a moment to plug another blog I just found that takes an in depth historical look at the PRR Main Line between Altoona and...
Sunday, June 23, 2019

New Web Hosting and THORN Tower Page Revamp

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For about 14 years my primary web hosting was a student computer club at a major university. Memberships and server access were off the lif...
Sunday, January 6, 2019

Great Resource on Chicago Area Rail Junctions

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From the title you might think I am here to plug the Chicago Rail Junctions website, but surprisingly I am not! The prolific Industrial Sce...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Mark D Bej's The Broad Way Archive Gone

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It seems that I'm not the only person running into a hosting jam lately.  For literally the last 20 years when I have needed information...
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