And, no scanners either! Nice stuff Tom, keep them coming.
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Wow, wouldn't a pair of these look great painted in something more colorful, like Delaware & Hudson blue and silver, for instance?
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JC, your comment strikes home quickly, check out previous submitted photo #332699 for D&H action view. Railfanning is always an adventure, right? Sharks would be gone/scrapped like the rest any day, correct? Trip in 1973 included bus to Johnstown PA to visit my friend, borrow his gold 63 Plymouth which was MY old car [headlights visible next to shark nose] and drive his car to WV to search for them. I could never have imagined they would be "saved", painted blue/grey and operate within a mile of my home in the Binghamton NY area. Neat twists of fate such as that keep our hobby interesting.
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Funny for all the pics taken of them in D&H colors, there seem to be far fewer like this great image of Tom's of them in MRY black. I wonder if it was just the drab colors or also the fact that there had been many more Sharks still around not that many years earlier.
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Tom you right on top of this chase. It is actually a chore to catch up with these Sharknosees. I tried in the winter of 1971 and came up short. I saw the units headed north at Brownsville junction. I was going up a hill headed south. I knew that by the time I was able to turnaround they would miles ahead of me. It would take until 1974 for me to actualy photograph them on the D&H.
Have a look.
a HREF=*http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=154971*target=*_blank*>here.
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