NOTE this blog post is still a test to eliminate extraneous links inserted by discuss or google.
Something was irritating me about
the trackage alignment
but I am having problems with my blogger/blogspot hosted blog pages uploading photos from my hard drive.
Some new AI feature seems to be getting in the way. I may have to revert to hosting on my own website smadanek.com thus justifying the fees I have been paying to keep the domain.
In the meantime I will write this blog up in Open Office Writer. Maybe I will add the doc as a file in blogspot and let google be darned.
this is the aerial photo I was trying to add showing the locations of what I call the roundhouse outbuildings for workshops and locomotive maintenance supplies along with the blacksmith shop and the grounded coach used as the roundhouse employee washup and locker room.
The white blips in the photo are parked cars of SP employees. The big building in the center of the photo is McNears warehouse.
Okay I solved the photo upload problem. I have to allow third party cookies when editing or writing a blog post in Chrome/Blogger/Blogspot. I am exposed while doing so for that authorship episode.
After creating or updating the blog I will turn 3rd party cookies off again. Stuff that up your google googlemeister.
I'll finish this blog when I have re-aligned the turntable approach tracks from the east and west along with a re-alignment of the house track in front of the station, freight house and the stores unloading dock. At this point I doubt McNears warehouse was still being serviced.
Something was irritating me about the
Trackage on my tiny layout for the last year as I focused on the
outbuildings in back of the Port Costa roundhouse. I could not get
the alignments right with the way I had set up the western approach
track to the turntable I am using analysis of my collection of
photos of Port Costa including a very small crop the 1957 aerial
photo of the Carquinez strait area from the USC collection
I
wish I had a better resolution photo but
have not found one so I must interpret the fuzzy images and account
for shadow and reflection from shiny cars. I can't get Blogspot
to upload the jpg crop I am using due to some Chrome problem probably
my Google analytics opt out.
A before picture
