Name That Station!

[Shanghai]

WAS

 

[AG1]

WAS

Correct, WAS ! We need an easy station once and awhile. Your turn to post.

By the way , the green blob is "Arte Leaf", Amtrak environmental engineer.

 

[Shanghai]

OK Rick, here is an easy active Amtrak Station:

 

[AG1]

OK Rick, here is an easy active Amtrak Station:

That isn't an easy one,but you should have removed the URL which gave the answer.

 

[Shanghai]

I don't see the answer in the URL.

 

[AG1]

I don't see the answer in the URL.

You are correct.I I don't know anything about computer code, but that picture is in the Google stock of images. I think if you rename the photo it won't be identified in .58 of a second on Google.

 

[Shanghai]

Thanks. I'm not aware of Google stock of images.

 

[AG1]

 

[Ryan]

The filename or URL don't have anything to do with it.

If the picture is the same, and posted elsewhere on the web, Google will match it.

 

[AG1]

The filename or URL don't have anything to do with it.

If the picture is the same, and posted elsewhere on the web, Google will match it.

However, if you have an internet photo (with a URL) that you want to post for people to guess the location in this thread, it is possible to rename the photo on your desktop before attaching to the post, so that a search on Google is unsuccessful. I just did a test using the above photo of the Lafayette, IN, station. Google could not identify the renamed photo.

edited too add "renamed"

 

[Ryan]

I still have no idea what you're getting at. The URL of the picture is:

http://discuss.amtraktrains.com/uploads/monthly_05_2014/post-1738-0-46188400-1400391339.jpgIf I download the image, rename it and then search for that image, I get the exact same results. Google does not use the filename to search for matching images. If it's posted elsewhere on the web, google will find it.



If you're so worried about it, don't freaking search google for the answers.

 

[Shanghai]

I'm not certain how to do a Google search on a photo, but RRRick is correct with Lafayette, Indiana.

 

[Ryan]

If you go to google and click on "images", you can upload a picture (or give it the URL of a picture) and it'll examine the picture and tell you if it's posted anywhere else on the web (or any other visually similar images).

It doesn't have anything to do with filenames or URLs.

 

[SarahZ]

If you use Chrome, you can right-click on an image and choose "Search Google for this image". It has nothing to do with the URL, though. It simply saves the time it takes to save the image and upload it.

I, personally, don't do that since I'd feel like I was cheating.

It is useful for other things, however, like if I see a dress I like but the blogger doesn't say where she purchased it.

 

[prech786]

Google Image Search makes it too easy. Here's one from my personal photos that doesn't appear to have any easy equivalent on Google.

 

[railiner]

Nice shot! Don't know where it is, but I sure do miss that "railfans seat" in the Budd short dome cars!

 

[AG1]

Google Image Search makes it too easy. Here's one from my personal photos that doesn't appear to have any easy equivalent on Google.

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Photo credit to Google, renamed for posting. Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada

 

[Notelvis]

RRRick -

Looks like you had the last correct identification three days ago.

Would you like to post another photo?

 

[AG1]

RRRick -

Looks like you had the last correct identification three days ago.

Would you like to post another photo?

I was waiting for prech786 to acknowledge my answer to his Canadian(non-Amtrak) station photo.

Notelvis or anyone else, please post an Amtrak station photo. I am going to bench myself from this thread for awhile.

 

[Notelvis]

I'm sorry RRRick, I should have noticed that prech786 had not acknowledged your apparantly correct station identification.

As for benching oneself from the thread, I take myself out of the game when I'm too busy to check back several times a day to acknowledge answers to a station I may have posted. That's why I'm sometimes here and sometimes MIA for days at a time.

Because I don't have much going on this weekend, I'll jumpstart the thread with a photo that I took during my graduate school days 20 years ago. Here's a hint - At the time I took this photograph I was 'on the clock' working my student job.

Who can name the station at which this train is stopped in early 1994?

 

[Ryan]

That looks an awful lot like the MetroPlex building in the background, which would make this NCR?

Edit:

Yep, that building on the left looks the same. The parking garage grew up at some point in the last 20 years, obviously.

 

[AmtrakBlue]

And, as I recall, he drove buses in the WAS area in his college days.

 

[Notelvis]

And, as I recall, he drove buses in the WAS area in his college days.

You are correct and so is RyanS....... I was counting on a Maryland guy for this one.

This is New Carrollton, MD and I was 'at work' driving a bus for the University of Maryland shuttle.

The DC Metro did not allow our buses into their bus slip at NCR so we made our stop on the street just past their bus exit. You can see where we pulled up in Ryan's current photo. I liked driving our New Carrollton route on a morning shift (6:30am - 9:45am) because morning traffic from College Park to New Carrollton was lighter and I would very often have 7 to 10 minutes to watch trains at NCR before time to depart.

It's your turn to post the next station Ryan!

 

[CHamilton]

How about that? I was a regular passenger on the UM shuttle 1985-88, and then came back regularly until spring of 1994, when I finally finished my Ph.D. So we might have met on that bus. I was always impressed as to how well-trained the student drivers were. You, your colleagues, and that shuttle made my academic career at College Park possible.

 

[Ryan]

Excellent!

Lets go arial again for a station...