Privacy policy

What this site collects

Nothing. The web app is a static site hosted on GitHub Pages. It has no analytics, no advertising, no tracking pixels, no cookies set by our code, and no account system. The interactive maps load tiles from OpenStreetMap, and some pages feature videos that stay off until you press play — see Maps and Videos & other media below for exactly what those involve.

Your browser stores a single value in localStorage — your theme preference (light or dark) — only if you toggle it. That value never leaves your device.

Hosting & logs

The site is served by GitHub Pages. GitHub may keep its own request logs (IP addresses, user agents) as part of operating its CDN. Those logs are governed by the GitHub Privacy Statement; the project has no access to them.

The custom domain 4014coasttocoast.com resolves via Amazon Route 53. DNS query data is governed by the AWS Privacy Notice.

Schedule data

The schedule was collected from Union Pacific’s public tour page by a GitHub Actions job. That job saw only public web pages and wrote a JSON file back to the repository. It never saw any visitor data.

Maps

The maps are drawn in your browser with Leaflet using map tiles from OpenStreetMap. When a map is shown, your browser loads those tiles directly from OpenStreetMap’s servers, which see your IP address as part of serving them — governed by the OpenStreetMap Foundation privacy policy. We attach no identifier to those requests.

Videos & other media

The Videos page features fan-filmed footage of Big Boy 4014. Before you press play, the video is just a still image served from this site — not from YouTube — so simply opening the page loads nothing from Google and sets no cookies.

Only when you click a video to play it does your browser connect to YouTube to stream it. We load the player from youtube-nocookie.com, YouTube’s privacy-enhanced domain, which doesn’t use an embedded video you watch to personalize your browsing unless you interact further. That connection — and anything you do inside the player — is governed by Google’s Privacy Policy. Photographs and other images are served directly from this site.

Questions or requests

Privacy-related questions, takedown requests, or security reports: revise.oxbows0v@icloud.com. A coordinated-disclosure pointer is published at /.well-known/security.txt.

Changes

This page is versioned in the project’s public git history. If anything material changes about how the site handles data, the change will appear here.