Next stop: Back Bay Station
By adamg - Sun, 02/20/2005 - 2:35pm.
The view toward the Back Bay from a bridge over the Amtrak and commuter-rail tracks in Readville.
Not long after taking that photo, I heard the "stand behind the yellow line" warning automaton come on at the nearby Readville station. Whoosh, here comes the Acela from New York, bound for South Station, in this QuickTime movie (sorry for the blue tint; I had my camera's white balance set to "blue hair"):
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Great shot!
Most excellent! I was there last August, just before moving.
Thanks
The Readville yards and surrounding area are really fascinating places - all industrial in a way most of Boston hasn't been in decades. Plus, you stand at the station (stations?) and look one way and there's downtown; turn 45 degrees and there's the Great Blue Hill looming over you.
QuickTime movie doesn't work on Safari
The QuickTime movie won't display in Safari 1.2.4. Safari seems to think it should be getting the movie from http://www.wickedgood.info/images/temp/2005-02-19/amtrak.mov , and it can't read that file.
Weird!
www.wickedgood.info/images/amtrak.mov is where the file is. Can you try that and let me know if you can see that?
that's only a 2596 byte file,
that's only a 2596 byte file, and it apparently contains a link to the other URL which I posted, which does not work.
Fixed (I think)
Sorry about that. I'm still learning my way around the mysteries of QuickTime. In most Windows apps, "Save As" means "Save this file, which you just made changes to, under this name." In the Windows version of QuickTime Pro, it seems to mean "Create a file that only links to the edited version," and you need to use "Export" to actually save the edited file under a new name.
Better, but what about 56K dialup users?
Much better, thanks.
Whether it's a good idea to include a 4.7 Meg QuickTime file automatically on the UniversalHub front page, I'm not too sure. Lots of us are still on dialup, and if I were not a train buff I would not have appreciated such a download.
Ayup!
That's why I moved the image to the "Read more" page (you might have to hit reload to see it's gone from the home page). I think that stub file might actually prove useful - if I put it on the main page, I *think* it'll show up like it did before, and the download will only start if somebody clicks on it. But I think I need to page Steve Garfield, who actually knows what he's doing when it comes to video :-).