Historical Photographs

Historical Photographs

A compendium of photographs Chuck and I have taken over the years in various parts of the United States. Many were taken in the mid-60's and some were taken later. It's a bit of a challenge to take old snapshots and make them presentable for the web. Old faded color prints and can be cleaned up, sharpened and darkened or lightened through the magic of a graphics program, but it takes time. I would appreciate feedback here -- what you like, what you don't like, what you'd like to see more of.

Upstate New York

NYC and B&O in and around Rochester in the 1960's My earliest rail fan experiences were in and around Rochester in the early 60's. It was there that I met Chuck Graham who became a life-long friend and rail fan companion.
Goodman Power Parade Pictures of motive power on the Water Level route on the eve of Penn Central
Upstate New York 1970 Trains in and around Rochester after the Penn Central merger
DeWitt Yard in Syracuse Photos of the large former NYC yard including the diverse power serviced there
Lehigh Valley 1966 A couple freights at Victor, NY and then a look at the division point at Manchester, NY
Mechanicsville 1970 A diverse assortment of motive power from four different railroads.

St. Tammany Rails

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Prolog: I lived in southeast Louisiana in the mid-60's and managed to accumulate a fair collection of pictures of railroading on the Illinois Central, Southern, Gulf Mobile & Ohio plus the terminal activities of New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. For years some of these photos resided in the Southeast Louisiana gallery.

In December, 2012, I started a complete makeover of the Louisiana section. Click on the St. Tammany Rails for a look at the Gulf Mobile & Ohio, Crown Zellerbach and Southern Railways as they operated in St. Tammany Parish in the mid-1960's. (Note to Yankees and Westerners: A Parish in Louisiana is the same as a County in the rest of the lower 48.)

North Carolina	After Louisiana, I lived in central North Carolina (late 60-s through early 70's). There was a pretty interesting mix of train activty there including the Seaboard Coast Line, Southern, Durham & Southern and the original Norfolk Southern. Plus there were some cool steam excursion railroads operating in the mountains of the western part of the state.
SCL 1967 - 1970	SCL in the Raleigh-Durham area including a sampling of passenger and freight trains, both through and local, operating on the both the former SAL and ACL lines.

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