And I came across a guy selling sets of Al Chione slides of the Union Pacific from the 1950s. I bought two sets of slides (33 and 44) and each set contains notes describing what/when/where for each slide. Many of the the slides are great and I especially liked the slides that show double-headed Big Boys running. I like these because I plan to have a helper district on my layout that will utilize LARGE helper locos.
A sample of the slides:
Modeling an HO gauge freelance version of the Union Pacific Oregon Short Line and the Utah Railway around 1957 in a world where Pirates from the Great Salt Lake founded Ogden, UT.
- Photo album of layout construction -
Those are beautiful! And if they are as sharp as your samples seem to show them, you should be able to get them printed to a pretty generous size for your layout room
Thanks for sharing... Ed
Great shots. I can't imagine what it felt like trackside as 2 Big Boys pounded by.
Mike
Wonderful photos! Thanks for sharing.
Nice shots.
I found a bunch of Saturday Evening Post advertising pages for the PRR at a flea market one day. Some cheap frames did the trick and they are hung on my walls too.
Pete
I pray every day I break even, Cause I can really use the money!
I started with nothing and still have most of it left!
If you are going to make prints out of these, photo editing software might be in order to get the best quality. Over time, color slides taken in the 1950s have tended to darken. This is particularly evident on steam locomotive boilers, smokeboxes, shadows, etc., where the detail gets lost in the darkness. Also, slides tend to collect dust and specks and dust can show up when you enlarge and make prints. This is based on my experience in having dealt with thousands of slides taken in the transition era. (At one time, I made prints from original slides in my collection taken in the 1950s and sold them.) The tweaking in most cases is very easy.
Victor A. Baird
Wow, I'm gonna look into this for train layout wall decoration. Gotta tell a story. When I got into trains, probably 6th grade or so, I wrote to UP (see next info) and asked them if they would send some loco photos. Being the early 60's they would send some nifty 8x10 b&w photos. I found that if I waited and asked again, they would send 10 more. It included some nifty old time locos with the workers around, up to the challengers and big boys. Still have them.
Oh, the background. My dad's dad was a UP switcher engineer in Sydney NE. I'm guessing an 0-6-0?? And Dad's mom's dad, earlier, was a UP foreman on laying the parallel (2nd) trnscontinental line. So I'm a UP fan.
EDIT: Onewolf, or others, can you comment on how to find the best quality images (UP)? I did some googling, but how does one get ahold of good quailty images (slides or files). I don't know where to look, and don't want copies or copies of copies. Preferably, I could obtain good quality files that I could crop and edit to my liking, the get printed to desired size for framing.
Paul
Modeling HO with a transition era UP bent
A couple more slide scans....