Today is the 10th Anniversary of this Blog

As the title indicates, I've been blogging about industrial history for 10 years now. I've written 4,008 posts in this blog and 3,418 posts in my other major blog, Towns and Nature. I retired May 2, 2014, learned about blogspot from a daughter, bought a DSLR camera kit at a Mother's Day sale at JCPenney and published my first post on May 15, 2014.

[I'm not acknowledging the website because, according to my security software, it has a threat.]

The most viewed post is "Boiler Explosion of C&O T-1 #3020 on May 1948" with 33.5k views. That was not a big surprise, but the second most viewed post, "BNSF Color Schemes (Liveries) and Railfanning" at 12.6k views is a surprise. Coming in third with 10.1k views is "1967 Big Muskie (Bucyrus-Erie 4250-W) Dragline Crane."

I normally don't pay attention to the stats because the blog is not monetized and because they don't make sense. As an example, here is the post summary:

And here is the information for the top post. Note that the above list gives a figure of 33.5k but below we see 40.5k.

I belong to several Facebook groups, and they have proven to be a significant source of material. So significant that I spend hours each day, seven days a week, working on the blog, but I can't keep up. You don't see most of my work because with over 7000 posts, most of the photos are being added to existing posts. And I work on fixing problems that I find when I add a photo to an existing post. The problems range from errors to duplicate posts to opportunities for more cross links to formatting issues.

I could write a lot about new versions of software being significantly worse than their previous versions, spam comments, trying to understand the terms of usage for websites, outages of Federal government run websites, many inappropriate Facebook suggestions, the loss of the Bridge Hunter site, a firmware bug in my new desktop computer, etc.; but I'll spare both of us some time and not write anymore about the aniversary.