Sure miss the variety of those years. Are these all from prints? Or transparencies? Guess I need to get a decent slide scanner. What are you folks out there using? Boxcab E50
These are all slides, a mixture of 126 and 35mm. I used the 126 (mostly Fotomat film!) before Christmas 1978 when I finally got my first 35mm camera. I take the slides to a good camera shop and have them put onto CD and I work on them from there. Brian
What is your cost per slide, roughly or on average? I wish there was a "good" shop in this vicinity. The last time I trusted a "good" shop, was March of 1980. When I put in two rolls of K64 for processing. And one was lost- a 36 exposure roll, which if loaded properly would always get 38-39.... Stuff taken in mid-February (President's Day) of the MILW around Tacoma, in the Valley on The Hill, etc. LOST. Oh. I did get a free 36 exposure roll of K64. Yippee. That really helped. Not. Yes. I am VERY bitter to this day. Boxcab E50
The "good" shop is Kens Camera. It is small but staffed by people who know what they're doing. Problem is they're further away up in Everett and the cost is about $1 a slide. They have yet to lose anything of mine. I do get a 10% discount as I have a store card that is supposed to last a year but they're been honoring it for 2+ years now without my having to renew it. I tried a big name store (Ritz) at Southcenter in Tukwila and the cost was 65 cents a slide. However the images came out with a green tint so and were not usable. I think they are more in the business of selling cameras and not so in the photo processing department. I should have known better as I read some reviews that said they were difficult to work with. The Everett camera shop had nothing but positive reviews. Check around and see if there are any reviews on local photofinishing shops in your area, including the ones who lost your slides. 30 years is a long time. Probably has new owners by now. (if still in business) My favorite called Film Stop in Seattle closed a few years ago. It was sad to see them go out of business. Brian Ambrose
That shop I referenced is long gone. But my fears and trepidations are not. Unfortunately... How many do you take in at any one time? Boxcab E50
Mine are not too old. I was lucky enough to live near the C&I branch after the newly formed BNSF as well as going to Galesburg once a year. BNSF 9267, an ex BN SD60M wears its BN white face paint well as it passes east through Oregon past the Mt. Morris Branch. May 19 2006. 6177 a former CB&Q SD9 at Galesburg 1998. 6156 also a former CB&Q SD9 at Galesburg, 1998. I have more on Kodachrome slides, just need to scan them. I'm glad i was around to see the merger stuff of the late 1990's. Not as exciting as the 1970's, but still worth the trip to the main line.
I never take in less than 10 at a time and I think the most at once has been around 50. Probably average around 15-20 slides a week onto a CD. Thing is when I get them back they are huge files so I have to get that down to a more manageable size for the Internet which takes the most time. That is why I prefer smaller numbers of slides on a CD. I have 36 100 count rototrays of 126 sized slides and 80 of 35mm slides all taken between 1973 and 1987. Went to prints in 1988 and digital in 2003 so I have plenty of material to work with. Another thing is what I decide to take in. I just posted the one shot of the Snohomish train wreck and decided to pull the rest and get them onto a CD as well. One of the locomotives involved was F45 6630 so I went through my notes and pulled all slides of the 6630, before and after the wreck for them to be added to the CD. Of course I find other interesting slides going through the rototrays I decide to pull and add them to the growing selection of slides to take in. I have a BN Tribute website and will make the 6630 a future update once I get all the slides onto CD and complete the research. Here is the URL to that BN site for anyone interested: http://pnwr.qstation.org/BNTribute/ I've been writing new updates but getting them posted to the website has been fairly slow as Qstation adds them for me when their time permits. Brian Ambrose Renton, WA
Sure wish I had taken more photos or slides than I did. But.... Digital sure has made it better, but my camera is now outdated and on a disabled life budget, no upgrade forthcoming. Boxcab E50
Spent the weekend in Pasco, Wash. chasin' trains. Found a couple cool relics! :teeth: Old plywood siding caboose, a C30-7, and BN 2075, the old "Pacific Pride II".
Pacific Pride I and II Pacific Pride II was GP38-2 2085, repainted after the first one, GP38 2075 was damaged in early 1992. The 2085 was a partial white face with white up around the numberboards, but with stripes on the nose. Here is a photo I have of it on LocoPhotos from 1997. http://www.locophotos.com/PhotoDetails.php?PhotoID=23500 In digging a little deeper I have come up with this timeline. 1) BN 2075 painted Pacific Pride I in Feb 1990 2) BN 2075 suffers engine fire or prime mover failure Feb 1992 3) BN 2085 painted Pacific Pride II in March 1992 4) BN 2075 rebuilt to GP38-2 standards 7-23-93 and returned to service as Pacific Pride I. First issue I have with this is I photographed the 2075 on a westbound on Providence Hill 6-12-93, more than a month before it was released from the shops. Guess I'll have to do a bit more research on these dates! Anyway, here are some photos I have of the 2075 after the repairs and return to service as well as a few other trains photographed the day I caught the 2075 west of Providence Hill in Eastern Washington. 1) BN 2075 West on train #611 at Hatton, WA 6-12-93. 2) Back shot of #611 with units 2075/2888/2897 at 10:47 AM. 3) BN #11 with 6325/7801/8129/7122 at Hatton 11:32 AM the same day. 4) BN #121 with 6846/6804/7098 at Hatton 12:33 PM also on 6-12-93 5) BN 2075 at Interbay 5-16-96 Next I'll be scanning the photos I took of the 2075 in April and May of 1990. Brian Ambrose Renton, WA
There are some nice, train-scenic locations in that vicinity. I tried to catch some action last June, on a day when I was transiting the area. Rats. Wouldn't you know it was a massive work window? Everything was holding at Pasco and Spokane, shut down at 7am..... Boxcab E50
Wasn't the 2075 originally ordered by the SP&S? But it was delivered after March of 1970 so essentially it was one of BNs first new engines? I may be wrong about this but for some reason I remember reading that somewhere. If that is true, does anyone know what the SP&S # would have been? It would be kind of cool to paint up a 38 with the # on it and see what anyone says? Hey the SP&S never had any of those!
That is correct. BN 2075 was supposed to be the SP&S 203. From what I have read, EMD had the SP&S paint ready to apply when the BN merger came along and it was a last minute change that painted them green. And I also read these were the only new units on the floor at EMD ready for paint as none of the SD45's, F45's and U33C's that NP, GN and CB&Q had on order were ready for paint yet. Brian Ambrose Renton, WA
I do not know what they would have looked like but SP&S did not have GP35's. I think there only EMD's were a E7, some F's, and a handful of GP7's. Kevin
You would have to think they would have been painted similar to the Alco Centuries in yellow and green, especially as the 2 C415's were delivered towards the beginning of 1969 in that paint scheme. Surprised I have never seen a mock up of what might have been. They would have looked pretty sharp I would think. Brian Ambrose Renton, WA
Here's another group of 5 slides from the 1970's. 1) Lineup of ARR 1825, BN 2080, BN 1795, BN 2219 at BN's Interbay roundhouse 12-4-75 2) Alaska RR GP7's 1826/1838/1825 at BN's Interbay yard in Seattle 12-4-75 3) Amtrak #11 leaving Seattle 1-5-77 behind BN 6319/AMT 450/AMT 377 4) BN SD45 6480 at Interbay 4-11-77. The 6480 would eventually go to the NYSW and given the number 6362 and later 3612. By 2004 it was pretty much stripped of parts and ready for scrapping. 5) BN Helpers 2506/807/1776 on a westbound exit the Cascade Tunnel on Stevens Pass 10-14-78 and will be cut out at Skykomish, WA. Brian Ambrose Renton, WA
I wonder if they ever allow tours at Interbay any more? It used to be so easy to sign in and wander for a while. Nice load of unburned fuel belching from that EMD/ATK. Cough. Call the protesters... Boxcab E50
