Talk:New Rochelle station

message: There are several very good images located in Wikipedia commons that are beneficial to this article and preferable to the images already being used (one blurry of a platform sign and one non-specific image of railroad tracks and wires). Questions over the the legitimacy of the commons images that have been added (one of the station house and one of the transportation center) seem pointless and weak. If the original uploader has a history of misbehavior on the site(s), these images clearly dont illustrate these issues. Both photos have added metadata on their description pages which shows that they were both taken by an individuals camera, and therefore are not copied from another site/ someone elses work. Continuously removing them from this article accomplishes nothing, unless ones goal is to keep beating this very dead horse.--67.84.188.221 (talk) 02:22, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: My picture and the other are correctly if anonymously criticized; however they have the advantage of being provided by genuine people who have contributed many pix of our own making.  Metadata of course can be forged, and the size of uploaded pictures need not be related to the resolution of the camera; see :Image:Palmerstub.JPG for a pic that was heavily cropped because I shot it wrong in the first place.  I intend to unfold my bicycle and pedal up to New Rochelle with my new camera when reliable warm weather returns, to take better pictures.  Also probably reshoot that Palmer Avenue pic, farther west, on the same trip.  Unless, as I hope, some other real person beats me to either or both these targets.  Jim.henderson (talk) 23:07, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't sell yourself short, Jim. Your image of the New Rochelle Metro-North station looks fine to me. It clearly shows the platform, the tracks, the overhead walkway, and some of the city in the background. And I trust that it was taken by the real person who uploaded it. --Orlady (talk) 23:29, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

text: Oh, I've learned to do better since, and expect to take more time on my next visit to find better positions.  I'll also be carrying the new camera I bought Monday, which sometimes picks up enough GPS satellites to establish a firm position and insert it into EXIF.  No big deal for this article, but many articles and places have no coordinates as yet.  I also have to replace my crude method of refining bad coordinates.  When someone's transcription error or other problem causes a huge position error, I use a very gradual online recursive method which initially reduces the error by 70 to 90% and sometimes takes weeks to nail it down to an acceptable precision.  Also must remember to hide a note inside the Wikpedia page promising this improvement.  My eventual new method will probably involve Google Earth which requires a more advanced computer.  Jim.henderson (talk) 01:37, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Somewhere here on Wikipedia I learned that Wikimapia is a good resource for harvesting coordinates. When you reposition a map there, it updates the coordinates in the URL displayed in the location box to match the new center of the map. --Orlady (talk) 01:42, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  images 

message: As of a past couple of years, the station tracks were re-aligned -- there are now only four tracks at the station, and the eastern platform (MetroNorth northbound and Amtrak both directions) was extended.  Could someone with more knowledge of the situation update the article?  I believe part of the realignment was to facilitate the wye juncture just south of New Rochelle (the reason Amtrak trains stop here is that they have to slow down so much anyhow) that sends Amtrak trains over the hells-gate line and eventually into Penn Station. 72.93.171.135 (talk) 22:09, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Track Alignment & Platform length 

message: We have to restore the images of this station either this winter or spring. If I were still up in the New York Tri-State area, I'd do it myself. ---------User:DanTD (talk)  16:53, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images revisited