Gee I wish I had gotten a picture of that

[cnwfan51]

    Like most FRNS over the course of the years I wish now I had taken photos of a train or engine and for me it was in the late 60s and early 70s while living in Kearney Nebraska on U Ps  double main and later when I first hired out on the U P in 1998 taking photos of the CNW power before it was retired and painted over    Would of could of should of   Larry

[wjstix]

When we took our family car trips in the sixties-seventies I always wanted to take pics / movies of trains but my folks thought the film had to be used for important things like buildings and statues (which are pretty much all still there). Even after the trips I used to try to get them to let me use the remaining film to take pics of the Minneapolis Northfield and Southern but usually I couldn't. All those years seeing Baldwin and FM engines and don't have any pics of them!!

Course pre-internet, I didn't know what was out there til it was too late. We were in Harrisburg PA in 1971, didn't know til years later that we were probably only blocks away from GG-1's for example.

[West Coast S]

There's a section of active former PE trackage with extensive street running, it would be ideal as a model subject as would the long gone junction once associated with it which was torn up and paved over or ceded to development in 1940.

 

Dave 

[mobilman44]

Hi,

Boy is that something I have beat on myself for years!    I grew up in Chicago about two blocks from the C&NW, and was trackside to watch the steam commuters fly by in the early '50s.  Also saw the E units and early GPs, but do I have a picture????   NO  !!!

I spent summer vacations in Anna Illinois (about 50 miles north of Cairo) at my Grandmom's, which was a stones throw - and a clear view - to the IC "racetrack".  I saw the steam powered freights with 4-8-2 locos, got real close to 0-8-0 switchers, and saw many orange/brown E units flying through town.  But do I have a picture?????   NO  !!!!

There were a couple of reasons, the first being that taking pictures was expensive, and the second being that those wonderful locos and trains would "always be there", and quite honestly, the newer locos were always the attention getters.

I've often thought how wonderful it would be to go back with a bucket of 35mm film, and a couple of cameras, and just spend the day trackside..................

ENJOY,

Mobilman44

[Beach Bill]

C & NW had a branch line across Northern Illinois to Freeport, Illinois where they had a little roundhouse located near the Illinois Central passenger station.  The line ran along the Pecatonica river about 3 miles south of where I lived.  The embankment for the long-gone Rockford-Freeport Interurban ran parallel to this line.  With all the trestles and the generally poor track condition, they used SW1s to pull the local.   Once I saw four SW1s mu-ed on this line.   Even if it would have had to have been from the old black & white "brownie", it sure would be nice to have a photo.

Bill

[rogruth]

When I was in high school at Bellaire,Ohio a train went through on the B&O with a loco ,tender and several 19th century cars on flatcars.This was between 1948 and 1952 and was pulled by a steam engine.I later learned that this was the William Mason and was going to Baltimore.

During this same time period my uncle, who worked for the PRR,took me to Northumberland,Pa. to see some old PRR locos,their historic collection.

When I was teaching in western Ohio near Springfield,a European style loco and cars went west on the PRR.Later I learned this was General Eisenhowers' train while he was in Europe.It went to a mid-west museum.I do not remember where.

No camera was available for any of these events. 

 

 

[cnwfan51]

   Just for your information the train for General Esinhower was going to the Miseam in Gtreen Bay Wisconsin   Larry