| Posted by guymonmd on September 20, 2010 | |
Great historic photo John. I always enjoy your photos.
Funny the SP would spend money overhauling a loco when the line would be abandoned in about 1 year.
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John West, is there ANYTHING on the NG you haven't seen? Here you bagged a news shot, over 50 years ago! Nice one for any NG history book.
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Wow! Didn't know there were other narrow gauge 70-tonners out there, besides the Grand Falls Central.
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Neat photo. The track on the flatcar looks like 2X4s. And the crew's hats! Thanks for posting this great scan.
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John, The photograph is great and I also enjoyed your comment about restoring old Anscochromes. Modern fans, especially digital photographers just can not imagine what it took to capture "and retain" those old-time images. Too many people trusted films such as Ansco or Kodak or even Sears to capture precious shots. Time, processing, and storage have all affected too many and if you can save one old Anscochrome and turn it into an image such as this, THAT is a tremendous accomplishment. THIS view deserves to be save in vivid, realistic color for the future. Thanks for taking the time to do that, and to share it with us.
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Wow now that's a piece of history! Thanks for sharing!
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John... This is a wonderful photo and a worthy addition to the database of an bygone era! I can fully appreciate the hours you most likely spent working on this gem. Mr. Tom Trencansky's comments above are so true and accurate! The younger "digital" generation has no concept of what we went through to capture an image (with much less sophisticated cameras) and then store those slides in a climate-controlled environment to preserve them. A dear and late friend of mine stored his slides in the basement for years and they didn't fare too well. For me, the real pleasure and challenge of this hobby is finding that questionable old slide, scanning it and then bringing it back to life. Great job, John, and thanks a million for your time and effort to preserve and share this bit of history with us!
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Neat shot; lots of history!
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A simply amazing scene! Almost looks like something a model railroader would do.
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