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Adding Pictures...I think this is right....

General Discussion
#1

It’s true there is sort of an extra step involved in posting pictures on LSC.

You don’t post a picture by inserting a big ole copy of it from your computer/phone/tablet whatever.

If I’m not right, Bob please correct me, but I think there’s no way in hell Bob has the space on his server to store all the pictures that get posted on this forum (he gives us some space for free in the Freight Shed though). As I understand it, a server is just a great big hard drive really.

Pictures on LSC get posted by copying the image location from somewhere else on the internet. That way the big ole picture file stays on somebody else’s great big server, not Bob’s! I think I understand this correctly.

So…here’s a random picture from

https://www.merriam-webster.com/assets/mw/images/article/art-wap-landing-mp-lg/[email protected]

(The image is stored on the Merriam Webster’s website server presumably.)

If you want a picture to show up in your LSC post or your reply to somebody else’s discussion, you copy the image location from wherever the picture is on the internet, then paste it into the Source box you see when you click on the little Inset/edit image icon (it’s above FONT SIZES).

The only drawback, as some people have found out, is that if the picture at the other website goes bye-bye (at Merriam Webster, for instance), then Poof! it disappears here too. Sometimes whole picture hosting websites go Poof! (Or a “free” site decides to start charging you to store your pictures.) Then you’re really up a creek if you don’t have your pictures stored at home somewhere.

Here’s what happened when I went to my own website and deleted a picture I had stored there at

http://www.saintfrancisrailroad.com/prototypesimages/hl8b.jpg:

[I swear on a stack of bibles the picture was just here a minute ago!!!]

So there you have it!

edit: I had to edit to include the pictures.

#2

This one is from my FB photos using John’s direction above. You will also have to resize the pic if it is too large using the resize line in that popup window.

#3

From reading your post twice John, I gather the point you are trying to make is that to post a picture, it must ALREADY exist somewhere on the Internet already.

This is true, and to complete the extremely common misconceptions

  1. existing on your computer is not enough

  2. just because you “see” a picture on your computer, does not prove where it is.

  3. if you “send” something that shows a picture on your computer, it may not work on another computer or forum.

The solution is if you can use a browser to show a picture AND the address in the browser starts with http:// or https:// THEN using that address in your post will make the picture occur. Be VERY careful that you are NOT looking at a picture ONLY on your computer… your browser will “show” pictures on your computer also, that will NOT be accessible by others or forums.

Greg

Greg

#4

JB,

What kind of track is that?

I like your Elk River Cab Forward.

#5

My track is LGB. Maybe paid a little more in the get-go, but it has never failed me after years of 4 seasons being outside.

#6

John, do you paint the LGB track black? I love that bridge. Also, did you scratch build/add the cab on the locomotive? And one more question, what’s on that tender? Sorry for all the questions, but I really like the looks of it all.

edit: wait a minute, when John C says cab-forward, does that mean the cab you built is actually the front of the locomotive, and that tender is on the back?

#7

Image result for cab forward locomotive

You get the idea …

#8

I didn’t notice right away, but the generator where the headlamp normally went, made me look closer.

JP that’s an oil tank on the tender, burning oil allowed the fire to be moved away from the tender, heat it with a little steam and that Bunker C will flow.(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

Thomas has a loco friend that looks like #21 in Sean’s post. I actually watched the whole episode! (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)Mostly because our friend Dwight had built one in G.

#9

Thanks everyone for your help.

Jason

#10

How to post pictures from Freightshed. http://www.gscalejunkie.com/Articles/How_to_post_pictures_from_Freightshed.pdf