Test Post

So after posing a picture of my own, using the link from Flickr, this is what is then rendered in the browser by the forum software...

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  <p>Testing how links to images are handled.</p>
  <p>This is my photo, I own the rights to it.</p>
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    <img alt="" height="819" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/7124/7004732488_23ae31ba87_b.jpg" width="1024">
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The photo is not copied into the forum it's a link to the original. 

It's OK to post an image here via a link as opposed to actually copying it into your post as an attachment. The only danger in doing it that way is that if you ever remove the file from Flickr, move it to another folder or change its file name, the link will be broken. That doesn't happen with an attachment.

That code looks just fine to me. So does the picture! It looks like a dark and moody shot taken on a misty day.

Nice picture. Must be a long train on the left with 5 locomotives pulling it. Thanks for sharing.

Hudson J1e posted:

Nice picture. Must be a long train on the left with 5 locomotives pulling it. Thanks for sharing.

Not necessarily.

Many times "extra" locomotives are put on a train simply to move power to where it is needed. Traffic flows on a railroad line are rarely symmetrical. More traffic will move in one direction than the other.  This results in an imbalance of power on the railroad, with more units ending up at the terminals where the most traffic goes. At some point those units have to be moved back to the origination point to be used on another train.

It is also very unlikely that all five of those units are on line and pulling. The maximum tractive effort generated by five big 6-axle units (30 axles) would exceed the strength of the couplers. Most railroads do not allow more than 18 to 24 powered axles on the head end, depending on the territory.

30 powered axles could also lead to a stringline derailment, where the cars are pulled off the track to the inside of a curve. I would bet that only 2 or 3 of those units are actually on line.

This was taken from the Cassandra Overlook on the former PRR mainline in Cassandra, PA.  This train is heading "up the mountain" towards the Cresson Summit. Then it's on to the Gallitzin Tunnels, and eventually on to the Horseshoe Curve, continuing west to Altoona.

This overlook is at the end of about a 2 mile straightaway that starts below in Portage, PA and consists of a grade that is a little over 1%.  I don't know if all the units wire online, but it wouldn't surprise me.  They usually cut in helpers on either side of the mountain.  There may have even been a few on the other end!

Rich Melvin posted:

It's OK to post an image here via a link as opposed to actually copying it into your post as an attachment. The only danger in doing it that way is that if you ever remove the file from Flickr, move it to another folder or change its file name, the link will be broken. That doesn't happen with an attachment.

That code looks just fine to me. So does the picture! It looks like a dark and moody shot taken on a misty day.

Rich, 

Thanks for the compliment!

I was just testing this, because I made a post a few days ago and used the image button to insert a link to an image on Flicker (like this one).  The image was not mine, but the source said it was free to distribute, and I only linked to it.  However, the image was removed as a copyright violation.  I posted my picture here as a test to see what the forum software did.  I wasn't sure if maybe it was copying it in as an actual image in the forum's database.  But as  I suspected, it didn't, it just embedded a link to it.  I'm still not sure why my link to the photo was removed.