Post your Train shots!
- Thread starter Rick M
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Yes, that's some fine work for certain and they left it looking as it should. As photographers, we're all saddened when we see depot preservationists select unfortunate colors, plant oversized shrubbery everywhere and erect ugly fencing. These gals did it right.
From June 1975 in Skokie, IL we find the Skokie Swift, as operated by the Chicago Transit Authority. This car was part of a series built in 1959-1960. A number of these durable cars are preserved today at the Illinois Railway Museum and other locations. These were the only cars on the CTA equipped with pantographs to access overhead wire, as this line was formerly operated by the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee which shut down in 1963. [Nikkormat FTn, Plus-X]
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Thank you Sandpatch. I'm always excited to see a low numbered locomotive. Funny how I see these & think they are modern units. 25 years old isn't very new, I'd not have guessed that.
What a great memory to have. :encouragement:
Another b&w shot from the Nikkormat FTn about 1975, this one from Deval interlocking at Des Plaines, IL where a C&NW freight makes its way north from Chicago toward Milwaukee. The train is crossing over the C&NW's triple track Harvard Subdivision, busy with commuter trains.
Guess which youthful photographer failed to record on film the C&NW's semaphore signals that guarded the crossing?
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Guess which youthful photographer failed to record on film the C&NW's semaphore signals that guarded the crossing?
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Nor do we know what will be gone tomorrow.
When I was young, Es and Fs were eternal fixtures on C&NW commuter trains. This F was captured at Mt. Prospect, IL on June 23, 1975. These photos are all scanned from old prints. I was crazy about locomotives when I was young, so I tightly cropped the prints. I'm hoping that the negatives show a bit wider view of things.
Reconnected with a childhood friend earlier this month (we last chased trains together in 1984) to see what CSX and NS had to offer at Marion, Ohio. This was the scene, capping 12 hours of railfanning a great location: a pair of NS trains (the last two of 37 trains we saw) perform a rolling meet just north of West Center Street.
Sandpatch, man these old pictures really have got me going. Your scans are great, your subject matter even greater! :encouragement:
From the City of Toronto Archives collection, I found this somewhat old photo of the John Street roundhouse. It's almost as if the CP and Nikon are inviting fans to stop by.
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You should go back and shoot that now don't look the same now
