sorry back spaces do not work here

Yeah it avoids the problem, but with the info you provided navigation to the locomotive info was possible.<br /><br />Beverly, I'm glad you and your dad liked the pictures.<br /><br />David, yes that is the reason why computers put backslashes in front of apostrophes. Apostrophies usually mean the end of a string or character. To make the program parse the string correctly that contains an apostrophe, you need an escape character (backslash) to let the parser know to ignore it. I wonder if putting a backslash in front of the space in the original url would fix the problem. I'll test it next post (It works in unix, linux and mac os x)

Konrad,<br /><br />I sent a copy of your photo to my dad who is now almost 80 years old. As a child, he lived with his family (with twelve!! siblings) across the street from the train station, in the town of Watrous, Saskatchewan. He says the train looked familiar. By phone, I managed to teach him how to use Googlemaps so he could see the city where the photo was taken. Very cool locomotive Again, thanks for posting it.

<br />Right. The forum software is converting the URL's original characters into spaces.<br /><br />If you replace each space in the original URL with a percent sign and the number 20, it will work, like this (which might not work either--no knowing until it's posted: Freight Tank Locomotives/TKt48.htm<br /><br />If there are spaces in the bolded text, then there's no hope of creating a live link in the photo comments for that URL.<br /><br />Of course, when all else fails, you can turn the whole thing into a TinyURL, like this:<br /><br />tinyurl.com/ylrnz5a

One final test (and than I will give up :sad: )<br />www.locomotives.com.pl/Freight Tank Locomotives/TKt48.htm

I give up :sad:<br />The only way at the moment seems to be to copy and paste the address:<br />www.locomotives.com.pl/Freight Tank Locomotives/TKt48.htm

or ...<br />www.locomotives.com.pl/Freight Tank Locomotives/TKt48.htm[/url

Hi Konrad, <br />My original link is faulty :sad: <br />I should have tested it ... <br />What I was trying to link to was this: <br />TKt48 (www.locomotives.com.pl/Freight Tank Locomotives/TKt48.htm)<br />(it's already in English and fairly comprehensive)<br />I wish I could preview this message, but it's not possible for some reason when doing picture comments...<br />So let's hope it works this time

And another clarification ...<br />tender loco is really "germanism" - from Tenderlokomotive <br />I should have said tank locomotive<br />Sorry.

It's TKt48 (www.locomotives.com.pl/Freight Tank Locomotives/TKt48.htm)<br />where<br />T=towarowy (goods)<br />K=kusy (tender loco)<br />t=1-4-1 (axle layout, 2-8-2 in Whyte notation)<br />48=year of design (1948)<br /><br />The one in Szczecin (Stettin), in the photo, is a monument