RailImages

So....I've been watching RailImages for several days it seems.

I really like the random photos back.
Gud Jawb.

Now....long ago and far away, I had mentioned the issue of no YEAR on photos. Month and date, but oftem no way to date them as to year...and if you're looking up the screne, helps to know if it was taken last year or 15 years ago.

I see they have years on them now.
Gud Jawb numbah too.

 

Is that year taken or year uploaded though?

 

Doesn't matter. It at least gives us some idea (unless B&W historical scans).

 

Well, I wouldn't say that at all, I upload stuff from 10 years or more ago all the time. I'd much rather it showed the EXIF data.

 

Lets say a photo is of a layout. Old date, 29 July. Nothing else. You want to make a comment, and follow up with a relatively stupid comment on how the railroad is coming along.
Then you find out A) it was published in 2006 (so, gee, you know it wasn't taken later than 2006, right?) and B) it's been gone since 2008...and C) the builder is on the third layout since.

Or, you see the prototype photo...go to look it up on google satellite, and just can't see it...and you find out the photo was published here in 2002? And a total line change since.

Yeah, I'd like to see when it was actually taken. Except, unless you're running Windoze 10 and Cortana, which has downloaded your entire hard drive to the cloud and can inspect it......YOU are the one who gets to post "when taken" data.

You see yearless photo dates and haven't got a clue + or - 10 years when it was posted here.

 

Here's one:
Says Santa Fe....but no loco. However, cars on upper are BunSniff...so we know that:
http://www.trainboard.com/highball/index.php?media/action-above-and-below.23730/
Old days, date was June 23.
NOW we know it's 2006.
I would not have wanted to guess that.

Another:
http://www.trainboard.com/highball/index.php?media/bnsf-7721.65029/
What year if it wasn't published?

So many times I have tried to find a location...signals don't match. Switches don't match. Helps if you know it was 10 years or more old.

 

I like it. Can't remember some of the dates I uploaded stuff to RI. Adding the year helps a lot.

 

My point is the upload date tells you nothing about the date the picture was taken. I could upload a picture of my old n scale layout tomorrow, that doesn't magically mean it wasn't disassembled 17 years ago. I mean, I like having this info, it's good to have, but I'd rather get the date taken from the Exif. Which is of course embedded in a digital picture.