[Scan-DC] web pages need "last updated" stamp

Thu, 6 Mar 2003 13:47:17 -0500

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > Sent: Saturday, 01 March, 2003 00:44

> > One of the popular RR frequency pages, the one 
> at
> > University of Illinois, is also years old. The guy who set it up 
> has a
> > degree, a job, and not much time to update it anymore.

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:16:19 -0500 "Bote Man" <[email protected]> writes:
> This is precisely why a web page should bear a date of
> last update.
> 
> An "updated" stamp would let the browser-person know how dated the
> info is. Although with railroads being a 150+ year-old industry
> change comes mighty slowly for them. :-)  Rest assured that most
> of those RR freqs are probably still in use as listed.

Yeah, but the names change. There's no more Conrail, no more Southern
Pacific, no more Santa Fe,... Conrail was divvied up by NS and CSX, so
you would want to know who owns the line where you're trying to listen to
trains, particularly in the case of a town that is on both an NS and a
CSX line. You would know whether you wanted to be on the lookout for a
train on the north side of town or on the south side of town.