The picture collection is moving!
This site won't be updated any more.
It remains here unchanged, until the successor site will be completly ready.
The new vehicle picture collection site is nearby :-) - at https://pc2.pxtr.de.
There are already more pictures, and it is updated more often - sometimes weekly, sometimes monthly.
It has a better, tree-shaped navigation pane.
Some tasks are solved differently:
- Navigating through the new / modified pictures was done by following the red / blue arrows on the old site.
The new site has additionally separate pages for the new and updated pictures, historically, for all updates
since the start of the new site. (When a picture is updated again, that picture is moved into the set of the
newer updates
- Navigating through the pictures of the same author was done by following the green arrows on the old site.
The new site has additionally separate pages for each author's pictures.
If a picture has multiple authors (the 'Based on the work of xxx' or 'Modified by xxx' notes), then the picture
is contained in both author's picture set.
There are a few picture sources - for example, Shipbucket or
FlyingCarpet - where Traffic treats the community as the
registered author, so you can list the pictures collected from Shipbucket only together, not separately by each author,
but the author's name/nickname is listed at the picture (the author name, or the list of all authors' names
is stored as text with the pictures)
- The pictures can be downloaded individually, or all pictures of a webpage can be downloaded together.
This applies to all webpages with pictures - the pages for updates and individual authors included.
The picture groups of the old site - sometimes selected by author, sometimes by type, owner company, livery or according
to another aspect, which were built manually (and that was a time-consuming step) does not exist any more.
And it is not ready yet,
there are only the download formats Traffic and MM, and MM lacks Claudio Vianini's side variation pictures.
The formats for Bahnland, Opaku's TrainKit, Railway32, TrainGif are still to implement.
It is "work in progress".
This old site was updated last time in 2016, and the new site a few days ago, so there are a lot of new pictures.
In April 2023 the new site has about 75000 more vehicles as the old site (different sides of the same vehicle count only once).
If you find an entry on the new site, giving an error message instead of the vehicle picture, don't do anything - i get the message too.
It will be fixed soon.
But if you see an incorrectly shown picture, or problems in the download zip file, please drop a message for me ( 
),
it will help me to notice - and to fix it.
Technical details
This old site was generated off-line, on my home computer.
When all pictures were already included in the Traffic program's "stock list", the site update:
the preparation, generation and upload took me about an additional week.
So, the site was updated only 1-2 times a year to avoid this extra work.
The new site creates the pages "on the fly" from the Traffic files ( .stb and *.tvl-s).
This creation needs a little bit more time for the server, than only delivering the prepared HTML, picture and archive files.
Don't be surprised, that the new site's reaction is sometimes slower.
But to update it I only need to upload Traffic's existing files, it's ready in minutes.
The picture
collection
without frames
The whole catalog in one page
Picture authors
Bildersammlung - in Deutsch
Képgyûjtemény - magyarul
Links - other homepages with vehicle pictures
The Traffic Screensaver
homepage
