This thread is NOT to be derailed!!!

A sigle post did it.

Re: This thread is NOT to be derailed!!!


What are we carrying?

I like train threads. :wink:

Madrid, NM, Mai 2006

In 1945, just before the end of WWII, the War Department made a strategic inventory of all rolling stock then in service on American Railroads. My dad was an exec for the Reading Company and bought a whole batch of the pictures and documentation of every piece of steam and electric switch trains and diesel"cows" that The Reading, and the Pennsy owned. They hired a photographer who took the stock inventory, and made a large 8X 10 foto of every engine, tender and caboose(as a set) . Cabooses were just there to complete the picture and the tenders and the engines were usually on the same picture unless it was an incredibly big "Western style" engine , like a 4,10 4 or bigger. Anyway, Ive inherited these photos and scanned them in (its prolly about 400 photos of engines alone, and includes the documentation (Baldwin made, etc) and the drive HP. These photos are about the clearest shots of trains Ive ever seen and all of them are in like a plastic holder.

Now, Im gonna keep them and then donate them to the PA Railroad Museum in Strasburg Pa. However, Im not sure about the storage of photos. These are all black and whites (with the negatives) and the documentation. The photos look as good as new so I imagine the "glassine" covers dont hurt the photo paper. I think that, because I store them in a large trunk in the attic (which is ventilated well) the shots dont get brittle or yellow. Any suggestions? I really love these and I sometimes use a train signal or two in a painting, and I use these for reference photos.

c'mon you guys, knock it off.

Let's get back on track.

We would, if we could find it!
:wink:

Railroad tracks

railroad tracks

Too many one track minds here.

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Squinney's at it again, trying to derail another thread.

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Re: This thread is NOT to be derailed!!!

Party-pooper!

I think all you trainspotters should log off and leave chai's thread alone.

Those trains were just trying to take the road less traveled. Geesh! People get praised for doing such. I wonder why we don't give credit to trains that attempt to do the same thing.

Any thoughts on that?