Have added a bunch of photos to my page below, including all of my good B&M and T&P steam shots. All are in large format (will fill your screen and then some). Always looking for more sources of shots like these, so if you know of any please inform me, and download whatever you wish from my page.
PBenham wrote: Nice shots! Too bad C&O didn't see fit to save one of their Hudsons.
It really is too bad that the C & O and the others didn't save more of their engines!!
Those are great shots,thanks for sharing the link!!
Being Crazy,keeps you from going "INSANE" !! "The light at the end of the tunnel,has been turned off due to budget cuts" NOT AFRAID A Vet., and PROUD OF IT!!
locomutt wrote: PBenham wrote: Nice shots! Too bad C&O didn't see fit to save one of their Hudsons. It really is too bad that the C & O and the others didn't save more of their engines!!Those are great shots,thanks for sharing the link!! Glad you liked the shots. They belong on display somewhere, and since the site I got them from is no longer up--and never again will be--I figured it was time to get them back out there. As fans we owe a large debt of gratitude to the men who went out and recorded steam while it was still a daily thing, and should be especially thankful for the work of men like Foster, Vollrath, Felstead and their ilk, who devoted their lives to the impossible task of photographing and cataloguing every steam locomotive in the United States. They drove all over hell and back taking locomotive stills of such incredible quality and clarity that they continue to amaze us even today--high-resolution photography before the term even existed. Without them, the age of steam would be a blurred and confusing world, all action and no detail. Someday, if we're lucky, all of these stills might be consolidated into one free database (take note, Smithsonian), so that the glory of steam might finally be removed from obscurity and put on display for everyone, instead of just those in the know.
Glad you liked the shots. They belong on display somewhere, and since the site I got them from is no longer up--and never again will be--I figured it was time to get them back out there. As fans we owe a large debt of gratitude to the men who went out and recorded steam while it was still a daily thing, and should be especially thankful for the work of men like Foster, Vollrath, Felstead and their ilk, who devoted their lives to the impossible task of photographing and cataloguing every steam locomotive in the United States. They drove all over hell and back taking locomotive stills of such incredible quality and clarity that they continue to amaze us even today--high-resolution photography before the term even existed. Without them, the age of steam would be a blurred and confusing world, all action and no detail. Someday, if we're lucky, all of these stills might be consolidated into one free database (take note, Smithsonian), so that the glory of steam might finally be removed from obscurity and put on display for everyone, instead of just those in the know.
Very nice shots. But for correctness (not nitpicking) the T&P 907 shots are both at Dallas Union Terminal, not Ft. Worth and El Paso. The train is eastbound, facing roughly south at the platform. The baggage elevator/bridge structures you see in the background were at both the north and south ends of the platforms and were torn down in about 1948 when the overhead concourse was vacated and a new underground tunnel was built (still there and in use--accesses the trains and connects to the Hyatt Regency) with platform access and connection to a new parking lot west of the terminal. The old concourse lasted until the site was redeveloped in the 1970's. The train appears to be sitting on Track 4, which is now a driveway next to the DART LRT tracks. Note the Sunshine Special nameplate on the smokebox in the larger format photo. This was the crack train on the line prior to the Eagles, and lasted into the 1950's as a secondary train.
Thanks for posting. Please continue to post these kinds of photos because they are essentially priceless.
drephpe wrote: Very nice shots. But for correctness (not nitpicking) the T&P 907 shots are both at Dallas Union Terminal, not Ft. Worth and El Paso. The train is eastbound, facing roughly south at the platform. The baggage elevator/bridge structures you see in the background were at both the north and south ends of the platforms and were torn down in about 1948 when the overhead concourse was vacated and a new underground tunnel was built (still there and in use--accesses the trains and connects to the Hyatt Regency) with platform access and connection to a new parking lot west of the terminal. The old concourse lasted until the site was redeveloped in the 1970's. The train appears to be sitting on Track 4, which is now a driveway next to the DART LRT tracks. Note the Sunshine Special nameplate on the smokebox in the larger format photo. This was the crack train on the line prior to the Eagles, and lasted into the 1950's as a secondary train. Thanks for posting. Please continue to post these kinds of photos because they are essentially priceless.
Thank you for that information; the mistakes have been corrected. There are probably more date/place errors in the collection as well, but unfortunately I can only go by what the shots are labeled as when I download them, unless of course I am personally familiar with the locations/roads. In the case of the T&P, I am not. Speaking of which, I recently found another picture of 4-8-2 906, which I will post when I get more bandwidth. It was taken at Dallas as well (the Dr. Pepper sign seems to be a dead giveaway).
There are a few T&P photos online still, mostly of the 4-8-2's and smaller classes--you just have to dig for them. As for the Texas types, those came from a site which is no longer with us, and never will be again. Unfortunately, good sources of photos have gotten rare as certain "historical societies" gobble them up and then try to charge people for downloading them. I've seen prices as high as $10.00 for an 8X10 photo. Need I mention the name of the one that charges so much?
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