Good afternoon Rail Photographers,
Hi Francine - Flo, How are you ladies today. Things seem to be somewhat busy here at Jeffreys' Dinner.
If you don't mind I'm going to set up a bit of a photo work shop here today. Oh good, I didn't think it would a problem and Jeffrey loved photography too!
Lets See what WW says:Wells rd Station | Report
3:23 PM PDT on October 14, 2017 (GMT -0700) | Updated a few seconds ago. Wells Rd. is approximately 325 feet higher in elevation than my location and about a half a mile[?] to the North of me.
It's 69°F outside - Feels like 69.4°;
The high was 74°F and the low will be 51°F;
It's Sunny with winds of 1.8 mph from the WNW with Gusts to 2.5 mph;
Today is forecast to be nearly the same temperature as yesterday.
I did a bit of track work on my layout last night on the upper section as it climbs the grade and curves by the elevated switchman's shanty. As I was backing a work train through there a few nights back the old time blind end caboose derailed along with another car which didn't happen before? That area is one of the oldest areas so I was surprised to have any problems with it. So standing in front of the bench I have the drill press on I leaned over and started checking the spacing of the rails with a three point gauge and found they seemed wide. How did tat happen? Then I brought over my low step stool and climbed up on it and what did I see, in an area of about 7" I only had four spikes at two locations on each rail holding it in position. This is on the four rails leading out from the switch to form the main siding and passing siding at the Horseshoe Meadow depot. OMG, When Bull, the track foreman caught wind of my goof I got fired on the spot but then after he cooled down a bit he rehired me as there is no one else to do the work. What a relief! But how could I let it go all those years and not notice it? More spike work ahead. Hey that's what makes it fun!
Willie - Interesting that I never reduced any of the pictures that I posted before BOB made changes to the forum. Many of them were 7MB when I was riding the train? I'll figure something out, or just quit posting anything! P.S. I tried calling you once before, but your wife wouldn't answer the phone ! - LOL
Err Opps! The nose on the flying boat doesn't look like the MARS! That may be it's off-spring (will have to look for my Navy A/C picture book); however, someone short changed them on the prop! You would NOT have 3 and 4 bladed props on the same air-frame .. just wouldn't work!
Sherrel: As far as resizing your images, right in your cell phone, you can down load a free App & it' free to use, from the Google App store called, 'Photo Shop Lite' [if I recall the name correctly?] which I download again on my new phone as it had quite a number of features to it, One of which I believe was a way to resize image sizes.
My suggestion is to photograph your images in as high a resolution a you feel you will need or want for future use. Before you start to do anything with an original image, do a Save-As to create a file name for the image, as an example: Box cab Diesel-Electric 1.Jpg ... by putting [1] after the file name, if you do that consistantly you will always know that is your Original image and not to be touched. If you want to make a back-up of the image just ad a Bk after the [1Bk]. Then before you start to do anything to that image do a Save-As again with a different name of either file and give it a bit different name again and use that image to manipulate as you see fit. If you muck something up you can always delete the image and go back and re-save one of the Original files by a different name and start over which includes resizing or adjusting contrast etc, etc.
Also, I highly suggest getting a, Class 10 SD card to put in your phone and save all your images and other data to it so you free up phone memory to use as it needs to. I just looked at the specs on a Samsung Galaxy 6 and it does not have the ability to put a SD card in it. Did I remember correctly that you said you had the Galaxy S6?
You can also set up a free account at a storage site like, Smug Mug, to host your images as it appears PB found it was getting too expensive to keep buying arrays to hold all the images many were sending in.
Smug Mug will probably have a feature to reduce the image size like PB so they are the size required to post to the various forums. I'll probably wind-up there or one of the other free sites.
Good morning ..
Willie ..... Thanks for posting the photos. I found the photo I posted by Googling, and there are several other photos of the bridge out there. I see you just posted the link to Wikipedia's article which has the photo I copied. You were driving at 70 mph. I noticed the train speed limit is 10 mph. .... If I recall correctly, the bridge was originally on an Illinois Central line that went across Louisiana. That line was sold to a short line called Mid South Railroad. After several years, Kansas City Southern acquired Mid South.
David in CA.... I'm not sure about the items next t the bridge, but Toot's ideas might be correct.
Garry; That's alright, possibly Ray in Aus, is correct but when I enlarged the picture as much as my photo program would allow with fairly good clarity it sure looked liked the white pipe stopped at the ends of the ties as well as being at the height of the ballast. But the picture wa taken from such a high angle with no intent to zoom in on the white apparatus it' hard to tell?
I crossed that bridge back in the 80's when it was still A traffic bridge, was driving a U haul moving my cousin who was in the Air Force at the time. Him nor his wife were comfortable driving a large truck so a 14 day road trip was my duty. It would be an excellent feature to any layout.
Mornings are relatively pain free butt by the afternoon I'm getting the 14 gage wire REDHOT straight through my left chest, scary as hell and if there were other symptoms I'd be thinking I was having a heart attack. I seems to be starting few seconds or minutes later each day so I guess that is progress. Weeping in pain every night by 9 pm is not much in the way of progress but if a later onset is what I got...it's what I'll take. Can't concentrate, move, lift, or be productive in any way, sipping coffee and smoking while my brain slowly slides out through my ear holes, tears of frustration and pain running through my beard is the extent of my daily activities. GET the frikking shingles shot, I don't want any of you feeling like this.
Say Bruce: Good to see you posting again, but sorry to hear your in such pain and discomfort. You've probably done so already but how checking the Natural cures sites to see what they might offer?
Didn't realize that they had the MARS FLYING BOAT in there too! Even see a MIG 15 as well! Been across that older Vicksburg bridge several times - not the new one at all.
Still trying to learn something about this phone. See if I can post a pic?
NOPE - Smallest file of 4MB won't upload. I find NO WAY to reduce the photos to a smaller size. The ratios I posted produce a picture of 4MB, 5.5MB, and 7MB. There are no other "adjustments" on the camera - and nothing in the instructions.
I will attempt to look for a "program" for the computer?
Sherrel: Is the Flying a PBM or a PBY? My Father was stationed at Pensacola and taught Aviation Maintenance there and had a grew of men working under him to repair the planes and then everyone was required to go in the test flight afterwards and they used to fly over the Bermuda Triangle in the process. Dad knew how to fly and was going to get his commercial license but never did for some reason.
The lower section kind of referes back to my the first post to you.
Sherrel: It's amazing what they have in there. NAS Pensacola has one awesome museum. Can't help you with posting photos from the phone, I'm having my own issues with posting photos into this forum.
Say Joe: Maybe some of the info I posted might be of help to you?
Afternoon All,
Finished the project today including the ground cover around the structure. Going to watch some college ball in a bit.
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I hope everyone has a good night.
Say Curt: Your engine house looks real nice, adding the interior details sure makes a difference, and the welder ads life to it! When I mentioned the roof to you in a prior post I was thinking you were going to put a Ridge Roof on engine house with sky lights in it like my old Revell engine house as well as the John Allen Engine house which also has interior details as well as the old shafts that were used to drive the lath and drill press via leather belts.
I hope all have a good nite.
