Greetings, new poster here. I love the quality and the detail put into some of the descriptions on this thread, so it might be a good place to mention another place to share UP photos: Historypin.com.
I'm a researcher with Stanford University's Spatial History Project, and we have received an Andrew W. Mellon foundation grant to research the 'crowdsourcing' of railroad photographs through Historypin. Our project is called "Living with the Railroads," and it's now live. Check it out at
http://www.historypin.com/project/42-railroads/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
All you need is a google, Facebook, or twitter account to login and contribute, or you could even post photographs on Railroad.net and give permissions for them to be pinned to Historypin from here. Our goal is to represent both public archives and online forums equally, so we truly hope that some posters here will consider sharing their photos. Eventually, the project will show a slice from hundreds of different repositories for railroad ephemera, from historical and technical societies to history centers, libraries, and online communities.
If you like Living with the Railroads, you'll probably also like our channel:
http://www.historypin.com/channels/view ... otos/list/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Thank you for your pictures! They are amazing and show love for the subject. We appreciate any contributions, however small, and invite comments and corrections to our material, since you must know it can be difficult to develop location/time metadata for archives full of railroad photographs. Finally, we hope you enjoy the project site!
For permissions, questions, and comments email:
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