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Philnz

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crashton

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A poor old E8 wasting away, so sad. How I love these first gen diesels. This was taken with my first ever digital camera a Canon S20. :shame:

 
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Sandpatch

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Sad sight indeed. I grew up in Chicago and enjoyed watching the C&NW's Es and Fs. Shot this westbound "Scoot" with my Nikkormat FTn in August of 1978 on the Harvard Subdivision between Palatine, IL and Barrington, IL.

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crashton

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I remember seeing those when in the western burbs of Chicago. If I remember correctly I was in Elmhurst. The ones I remember best were on the Erie Lakawanna. Lots of them 2 to a train pulling fast freight. They were really something.
 
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Sandpatch

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I really need to buy a slide scanner. I have some slides that I scanned long ago on an old scanner, but not many. Here's the E's little brother, a C&NW F-7 at Barrington, IL on 3/21/1978. That's the interchange track to the EJ&E in the foreground. There was once an interlocking tower guarding the crossing between the two roads.

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Sandpatch

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Back to the days of black & white c. 1976 when I couldn't afford color, here's a southbound EJ&E freight just south of the crossing. You can barely see the roof of the tower above the boxcars. There's the interchange track curving in from the right.

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crashton

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Your attachment is fubar somehow. In the meantime here's another E8 for you. This one & that rusted hulk are both at Bellveiw Ohio. The LS RWY one was in Wellington Ohio.

I have to say all of these train shots posted here have inspired me to go out & chase some trains tomorrow.

 
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crashton

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Sandpatch said:
Back to the days of black & white c. 1976 when I couldn't afford color, here's a southbound EJ&E freight just south of the crossing. You can barely see the roof of the tower above the boxcars. There's the interchange track curving in from the right.

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I shot many hundred foot rolls of TriX. Rolled my own & just love the stuff. Most of my slides are Ectachrome, haven't scanned a one. Some day I'll get around to it.
 
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Sandpatch

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crashton said:
I shot many hundred foot rolls of TriX. Rolled my own & just love the stuff. Most of my slides are Ectachrome, haven't scanned a one. Some day I'll get around to it.
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I was a Plus-X man (er, teenager) myself. Those were the days weren't they? I rolled my own too and had a darkroom in the basement with my brother. Most of my slides are Kodachrome, though I shot Ektachrome at times. I'm glad that I took the time to write the location and date on all of my slides. I wish I'd have been a better photographer back then, but we all start somewhere and I treasure the shots I have, even if they're lacking in composition or light. Who'd have thought this would all be so interesting 40 years later?
 
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crashton

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This one is eastbound out of the Willard Ohio yard. It's a pretty busy place, but plenty of no trespassing signs posted. I haven't been chasing trains in many years. In the old days early 70's I used to walk all over & never had anyone bother me. Times have changed.

 
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Sandpatch

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Caught these yesterday at the South Carolina Railroad Museum. The little coal-burning 0-6-0T travels around by truck and visits museum lines for special events. I wish I knew how they get it off the truck onto the rail. The engine was built in 1931 by Vulcan for the Lehigh Valley Coal Company.

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Sandpatch

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On the other end of the railroading spectrum, I also captured this meet yesterday at Simpson, SC between NS Trains 155 and 156.

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