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Post by Just Plain Curt on Mar 15, 2006 22:04:34 GMT -5
Just thought I'd try a picture with Randy's love of trains in mind. Taken with Ricoh XR7, Ricoh 50 f2 Kodak 100 f11 1/125.  and  taken with Ricoh XR7 Kodak 100 exposure not recorded and last  taken with Pentax ME with Ricoh f2 50mm 1/125 f16. |
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Post by Randy on Mar 15, 2006 23:43:25 GMT -5
Very nice! N gauge loco too, eh?
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Post by Just Plain Curt on Mar 16, 2006 7:49:06 GMT -5
Hi Randy,
Yep, little engine that could is a Fleischmann yard engine in N gauge. I have tons of slot cars and track of various makers and scales, but only one train, eight cars and one track. A friend has a Lionel set worth PLENTY dinaro as it was a complete store layout from the early fifties I believe. I think he said the engine alone was over $2,000 but not being much of a model train guy, I can't say which particular set he has.
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Post by lulalake on Mar 16, 2006 23:36:11 GMT -5
Here was a working one. I shot it in IR color in 1970 and converted it to B&W last week.  I'm slow but I don't get wore out. Jules |
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Post by Just Plain Curt on Mar 17, 2006 7:22:49 GMT -5
Hi Jules,
Cool shot. I love b&w for bridges, buildings etc. Nice to see a caboose when they were still working. As a child I loved to wave to the caboose guy and most of the time they'd wave back. Friendlier times I guess. Keep up the good work.
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Post by lulalake on Mar 17, 2006 10:05:21 GMT -5
Hi Jules, Cool shot. I love b&w for bridges, buildings etc. Nice to see a caboose when they were still working. As a child I loved to wave to the caboose guy and most of the time they'd wave back. Friendlier times I guess. Keep up the good work. Thanks Curt, I grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, train central for the entire South Eastern part of the US. I guess most folks under 30 don't even know what a caboose is, or was as the case may be. Mostly I don't miss the past but some things really were cool. Cheers Jules |
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Post by kamera on Mar 17, 2006 15:00:33 GMT -5
Like Curt, used to stand and wait for the trains to pass near our back yard...we knew the timetables by heart. They would just be exiting a tunnel and going fairly slow. The engine crews knew us and so did the caboose crews. In fact there were times they would stop and let us ride the engine or caboose a 1/2 mile ahead over a trestle.
Of course, I am sure the railroad never knew that.
I so miss seeing the end of a freight train without the caboose...just the last car with a light on it...no...!!
Sometimes you see one in someone's yard and at a resort area near Lake Michigan, there are 3 set up as rooms for tourists to stay in.
Ron Head
Kalamazoo, MI
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