rrpicturesarchive site - is it broken or is it just me?

[John M Upton]

I have been trying to get on the excellent rrpicturesarchive website most of the morning without success.  Is it my computer playing silly beggars or is it kaputt?

[Angelus]

Hi John,

 

I've just tried it with Safari on a Mac and its working fine.

 

Terry

[John M Upton]

Thanks. It's been a bit flakey in the reliability department recently for some reason,I guess earlier today was another blip. 

[w124bob]

I've had no daytime issues, but do notice it not responding once the US wakes up!

[John M Upton]

Seems to be off the air completely now.  DNS not recognised?

[Keith Addenbrooke]

There is a suggestion on an American site that the owner of the archive sadly passed away earlier this year. I’m afraid I can’t verify this, but it would explain the situation.  Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I can’t access the site either, Keith.

[z4driver]

I've just accessed it (14:45 UK time 16 Oct) with no problem. Checking the last picture upload date and that was: 10/16/2023 9:43:59 AM so it still seems to be up and running.

 

Lee

[Barclay]

Still OK for me. It would indeed be a terrible shame if this resource were to be lost.

 

 

[Alcanman]

I checked this morning and it wasn't working. Checked again just now and glad to see it's working again.

 

A valuable resource for US modellers,  I hope it continues. Perhaps there is some sort of intermittent fault.

 

[John M Upton]

Working again here too, all be it a bit slowly in places which suggests the server it sits on is either overloaded or unwell.  A very valuable resource that is full of rabbit holes down which the unwary descends as they trace the history of a particular loco and then winds up finding something else interesting and before you know it, it's gone midnight and I should have retired to bed an hour ago...