For a long time, I have been struggling with some way to concisely display the over 2,500 pictures on Abandoned Rails. Most articles have a few pictures to accompany them, which is nice. And some articles have many, many pictures that document almost the entire line in some cases (or multiple lines, as does the Marin County, California, article, which has 46 pictures, the most per one article on the site). While the more pictures the better, displaying that page takes a while, understandably.

For a while, as some of you may have noticed, I showed the first 10 or so pictures, and then hid the other ones, with a link to show them if the user wanted. However, the pictures still loaded, even when hidden, which means the page still took as long to load.

A more suitable solution, I think, comes from the Flickr website. On the landing page for one of their "photo streams", they show all the pictures, but in "mini" format. Therefore, each picture can be viewed, and page-load times are not excessive. So I implemented this on the article pages, and hope that it works for the better. I think I like it so far...