Messing around with AI

[John_Bouck]

I am no longer able to work in my shop because I am a full time care taker for my wife who is in late stage of dementia.
So I have decided to sit at the computer and work with photos. I have been digitizing and colorizing old family black and white photos.
So I thought I would do some old train, mines, towns as well.
I’m using a scanner and copying non-copyright photos from the web. My apps I use to “adjust” the photos are Photomater and Open AI.
This is from the San Francisco area. What is interesting in this old photo is the 4 cylinder cops motorcycle.

Here is the original after I enhanced it with photomator to bring out the detail.

[Deneh (Bruce S. Gebbeken)]

Pycrl has quite a lot of public domain photos of trains and locomotives. I use them quite a bit to get photos of geared locomotives and logging operations in the Western United States. It is free to use, but they allow (of course) for a small monthly fee, better access and more complete searches.
I would advise when possible to give credit on photos anyway to avoid problems and tick people off.

[John_Bouck]

What is Pycrl. Can’t find anything on it.

[Deneh (Bruce S. Gebbeken)]

Apparently, I can’t spell anything after 5:00pm. <<<---- I even used a spell checker on this line

This is the site, sorry;

https://picryl.com/

[John_Bouck]

Any want to detail the right side of C&S #23

[Cliff_Jennings]

Neat photo, John, and nice work.

Looks like maybe the motorman didn’t see the signal, or the signal wasn’t working… With the trolley being bashed off its tracks some 30 feet, it wouldn’t have been a wonderful day for its passengers!

[John_Bouck]

public domain

[John_Bouck]