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Idaho Central Railway
I just completed a web page about the Idaho Central Railway, built between Nampa and Boise in 1887.
This is the last of the separate pages for railroads that contributed steam locomotives to the overall Union Pacific locomotive fleet. I have really enjoyed researching all of these various lines, looking to bring them and their locomotives into context with what was going on with Union Pacific.
As mentioned, I have tried to create separate pages for each railroad that contributed locomotives to UP’s own fleet of locomotives. Of course, some are not Utah railroads, so for them I created a separate index page.
Gallery, Gone
The last photo has been moved over from the Gallery photo album installation, to the SmugMug account.
As of this morning, there are over 4500 images and photographs, arranged in 112 albums. Also as of this morning, all of the images and photographs in the albums have been viewed over 23,600 times this past month, with between 300 and 3000 views per day.
While Gallery is a great way to exhibit photographs on the web, I found that for me, its weakness was its high maintenance and high level of knowledge to make it look and function the way I want it to. In the early days, there was a limit of 600 pixel width (later upgraded to 800 pixels). There were upgrades that I could have done, but it is a bit like a carpenter having to make a new hammer for each new job, and having to understand metallurgy at the same time.
After all the hard drive crashes I have suffered through over the past ten years, I thought I had lost the original scans, with only the 600- and 800-pixel images remaining. But I have been surprised at how many I’ve been able to recover from the 100 or so “backup” CDs. There were so many CDs that I never took the time to look at them, since 95 per cent of the content has been many times updated and added to, and was therefore useless as backup. But in amongst the kibble, I found most of the original, full-sized photo scans. They have all been copied to the primary drive, which itself gets backed up daily to two separate external hard drives. The CDs have all been disposed of, because now, they truly are useless.
