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Posted by Murphy Siding on Sunday, May 4, 2014 9:59 PM
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 Roadrailer 165 by Jim53171, on Flickr

I really like how you compose things. For example, this makes the Roadrailer train look like part of the industrial plant in the background.

Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.

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Posted by tree68 on Monday, May 5, 2014 12:17 AM

Part of the activities of our "rules weekend" included a slide show (optional attendance, of course).  The fellow has dozens of pictures of our line from "way back."  It was pretty cool.  Unfortunately, a couple of people who could have added a lot more color didn't make it.

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Posted by CopCarSS on Monday, May 5, 2014 3:27 PM

Sorry that I've been AWOL of late. A lot of changes have been going on for me. I hope to have a formal post in the very near future that I'll explain some of the changes in. Until then, here's something that qualifies as "old:"

 The Old Burlington Train Station by Christopher J. May, on Flickr

This is from my last roll of Kodachrome that I ever shot (please excuse the poor scan quality). This is the old Burlington station in my hometown of Aurora, IL. Sadly, the station has gone the way of the Kodachrome that I shot it with and is no more. While I don't remember the exact trip, this was the first station that I would have ever taken a train from. I'm guessing that it was probably an E9 powered Dinky to Hinsdale. Shortly thereafter the new Aurora station opened up near the old roundhouse. A few years later the E9's were gone.

I think that there's a lesson in all of that. Both the E9's and the station were photographic subjects that were easy to overlook. They were there everyday and didn't have a lot of "flash." It's only after they're gone that we realize that the everyday stuff can disappear, too. I try to keep that in mind when I'm shooting yet another solid lashup of GEVO's or something. While I'd like some more variety, there'll come a day when I might actually miss all those GEVO's.

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Posted by zugmann on Monday, May 5, 2014 7:39 PM

tree68

Part of the activities of our "rules weekend" included a slide show (optional attendance, of course).  The fellow has dozens of pictures of our line from "way back."  It was pretty cool.  Unfortunately, a couple of people who could have added a lot more color didn't make it.

Man, I wish our rules weekend had a slide show.  We used to have rules in a big yard so you could go out he door and watch all the neat power being moved into and out of the engine shops, but now our classes are done in our  own little yard office.   Not as exciting.

It's been fun.  But it isn't much fun anymore.   Signing off for now. 


  

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Posted by tree68 on Monday, May 5, 2014 8:55 PM

zugmann
Man, I wish our rules weekend had a slide show. 

We went out to dinner before the slide show....   (on your own, though)

The local theater owner let us use one of his "screens" for the show.

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Posted by edblysard on Monday, May 5, 2014 9:51 PM

CopCarSS

Sorry that I've been AWOL of late. A lot of changes have been going on for me. I hope to have a formal post in the very near future that I'll explain some of the changes in. Until then, here's something that qualifies as "old:"

 The Old Burlington Train Station by Christopher J. May, on Flickr

This is from my last roll of Kodachrome that I ever shot (please excuse the poor scan quality). This is the old Burlington station in my hometown of Aurora, IL. Sadly, the station has gone the way of the Kodachrome that I shot it with and is no more. While I don't remember the exact trip, this was the first station that I would have ever taken a train from. I'm guessing that it was probably an E9 powered Dinky to Hinsdale. Shortly thereafter the new Aurora station opened up near the old roundhouse. A few years later the E9's were gone.

I think that there's a lesson in all of that. Both the E9's and the station were photographic subjects that were easy to overlook. They were there everyday and didn't have a lot of "flash." It's only after they're gone that we realize that the everyday stuff can disappear, too. I try to keep that in mind when I'm shooting yet another solid lashup of GEVO's or something. While I'd like some more variety, there'll come a day when I might actually miss all those GEVO's.

Now that’s the stuff….

The two most important passenger stations in Houston, The SP’s Grand Central and the MKT’s, with its unique passenger platform that extended on a trestle out over White Oak Bayou have almost zero photographic history.

Along with the SP’s Eastern District headquarters, all three buildings were within a two block walking distance from each other, and all connected with the downtown trolley system.

SP’s headquarters still survives, as the “Pacific Lofts” luxury loft apartments, the passenger stations were torn down in the 60s.

So far, I can find no good image of either station on line, and both were of course long gone before I was ever interested in photographing them.

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 7:16 AM

It can be worse.  I can remember poking through the dead line just outside of Pielet Bros. and EMD way back in 1969 (at the age of 16) and continue to kick myself for not getting pictures of a lot of the trade-in material that I saw.

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Posted by BaltACD on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 7:25 AM

CSSHEGEWISCH

It can be worse.  I can remember poking through the dead line just outside of Pielet Bros. and EMD way back in 1969 (at the age of 16) and continue to kick myself for not getting pictures of a lot of the trade-in material that I saw.

Likewise, as a kid, my father took me on a tour of the B&O's Mt. Clare Shops in Baltimore - the pictures I could have taken if only I had a camera.

Never too old to have a happy childhood!

              

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Posted by CShaveRR on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 8:40 AM

Paul, how in heck did you get into Pielet Brothers to "poke around"?  I once was "invited" into the guard shanty just for looking at some old C&O geeps from Joliet Road (with binoculars).  And a friend of mine, employed by Chessie at the time, had to fend off their dogs while performing his track inspection (he was another mudchicken at that point) past the plant.  This is, or was, B&OCT trackage as far west/north as Superior, even though it was dispatched by IHB.

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 10:05 AM

I don't think that I actually got onto the Pielet property.  Two of my friends and I took the Burlington to Congress Park and walked south on East Avenue to 47th Street, where we then walked south along the IHB past the quarries to just outside EMD.  The trade-in locomotives were parked on sidings alongside the IHB running tracks and were outside the fence.  Also keep in mind that this occurred in 1969.

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Posted by tree68 on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 12:17 PM

Wish I hads...   Pictures of C&O's ubiquitous "north end" non-dynamic brake equipped Geeps running on the old PM through my hometown, not to mention the cabooses.  I remember noting one day that there was actually smoke coming from the smoke jack as one passed.

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Posted by CShaveRR on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 7:43 PM

Got you beat there, Larry.  We were on the C&O in Michigan at about the same time (I know to the day how much younger you are than I).  Except on my part of the C&O, the power for local freights and passenger trains was BL2s!  About the time I discovered just how rare those things were, they got rid of 'em!  And the GP7s they replaced them with had steam generators and dynamic brakes.

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