Post Your Black and Whites Photos!!

[crashton]

Very nice photos Sandpatch. I like the black and white, very much.

 

[Clovishound]

 

[Sandpatch]

From 06/07/1976 at Allentown, PA. Most all of the railroad names you see are gone today, merged into today's enormous North American major railroads. There's no graffiti in sight either, a blight seen everywhere in our modern era. This yard still exists, operated by Norfolk Southern. [Nikkormat FTn, Plus-X]

 

[crashton]

A different time to be sure. Before the invention of spray paint.

 

[Silversnapper]

A different time to be sure. Before the invention of spray paint.

Spray paint cans came became widely available in the late 1950's I believe. I repainted my motorcycle in 1965using them. I reckon they were too expensive for the graffiti 'artists' to be using at that time. How things have changed.

 

[Woodyg3]

I was stopped at a train crossing recently, and to pass the time I counted how many cars showed no graffiti. It was about one out of ten. And that was just one side of the car, of course.

 

[Sandpatch]

I was stopped at a train crossing recently, and to pass the time I counted how many cars showed no graffiti. It was about one out of ten. And that was just one side of the car, of course.

Yes, the clean cars are few and far between. Railcar manufacturers have recently begun to place car reporting marks (railroad and car number) high up on the carsides so that paint wielding knotheads don't spray paint over them. These markings are essential to railroad operations.

 

[Sandpatch]

This time exposure was made about 1975 with my Nikkormat FTn and Plus-X film. I closed the aperture to f/16, locked the shutter open and walked around popping off a handheld flash.

 

[Sandpatch]

July 1976 at the former Reading station at Hopewell, NJ

 

[Sandpatch]

From about 1976, a Chicago & North Western freight at Barrington, IL trails a caboose en route to Proviso Yard near Chicago. The C&NW called cabooses "waycars" and painted them yellow. [Nikkormat FTn, Plus X film]

 

[Peter7100]

 

[Peter7100]

 

[Peter7100]

 

[Woodyg3]

 

[Sandpatch]

Got a derailment? Who ya gonna call? Bucyrus! One of the oldest names in cranes, power shovels and mining equipment, Bucyrus was founded in 1880 and was bought by Caterpillar in 2010. They were a well-known name in railroading. [Nikkormat FTn, Plus-X, 1976]

 

[Silversnapper]

I like the composition in this shot @Sandpatch, it conveys great strength and power.
As an aside, in 1964, my wife worked as a typist in the Patent Office for the UK arm of the company Ruston-Bucyrus, Lincoln, UK. The patents were typed on Legal size paper (8½in x 14in) and most importantly, there could be no corrections - it had to 100% correctly typed before it could be sent to the specialist proof-reader.