How about a nice maroon N&W C30-7. This one was at Harriman TN and got away from us before we could catch up and get a better shot. Was the one any only time I was lucky enough to see one of the 3 of these GE's that got this scheme.
Wow, that IS a rare sight. With you standing on a railroad bridge, the scene also has a bit of model railroad feel.
One of those N&W C30-7s used to run Bellevue to Buffalo on the NKP. I saw it in Cleveland a few times. I was always hoping they were going to start painting new locos maroon. Wishful thinking.
I have taken the liberty of enhancing this excellent photo of yours. I use an old verion of Photoshop (5.5) and tweaked the color balance , contrast etc I use an Epson V500 photo scanner for Color negs and transparencies ( This lets me scan my Medium format films in as well) and helps me balance different color slide films , There is a massive difference between my old Kodachromes and Ectachromes and the later Fuji Reala and Velvias Some of the earliest picture I took as a young lad have scrubbed up well with decent technology I'll dig out a before and after example and post tomorrow. When I retired from the Railways 18 months ago my work mates said " How are you going to fill your days when you are not coming into the depot every day"? 'I'm going to rescan and check the details of every railway photo I have ever taken' So far I have 1,115,000 views on my Flickr channel of my railway adventures over the years https://www.flickr.com/photos/152010806@N03/ Kev
After my Dad passed, I inherited the slide collection - all 5300 of them, plus negatives and really old B&W stuff. He was a real shutterbug. But that was over 50 years of photography. Including some railfanning, and photos of my layouts that he built, cars and engines he painted and lettered, etc. I bought a Canon 8800F scanner for scanning all of that (and some of my own from my film camera days). The thing is the size of a Buick! It does regular documents, slides, negatives, etc. in many formats. I shelled out about $500 for it, but it was worth it. It lived up to its good reviews. But it took me something like six to eight months of scanning in my free time. I had to tweak a few, but the scanner's built-in filters are pretty good. No regrets!
Very nice Kev, glad you like the photo. I've been really enjoying the older photos you have been posting as well. When I retire, that is also my goal, buy a truly good scanner and good photo software and digitize my entire print and slide collection. I and sure it will keep me busy for a long time!
After posting the "N&W" photos, here are a couple of "Norfolk and Western" photos. Both in Chattanooga
Before I got the Epson I used to scan in off prints that already existed. I also had a truly awful Cyberview scanner to do 35mm negatives and slides. If I didn't have a print I still had contact sheets for the rolls of negatives so. Here is one of the earliest pictures I ever took. February 1960 so I would have been 5 1/2 years old with dad stood behind me making sure I didn't drop the camera scanned in off the contact sheet years ago rescanned in on the V500 straight from the neg Recropped, Dust marks and a few scratches taken out. Brightness and Contrast tweaked The loco is a rebuilt Patriot Class 4-6-0 45536 'Private W Wood V.C' which would only last a few months longer. Seen at Sheffield Queens Road on a Sheffield to London St Pancras express. Still snow on the ground You can see I got the Railbug real early! Kev
This is the internet at its best, with us sharing our railroad images that would otherwise never be seen. I enjoy posting mine too. For those of us who have no one who might be interested in inheriting in our collections someday, try to find a home for them so that they aren't thrown away when we die. I've asked my family to send mine to White River Publications. They accept collections without financial compensation, but will keep them to use in future publications and will give posthumous photo credit if any are used. It pains me to think of the collections that go to the dump when a surviving spouse fails to realize the rarity of some images.
Now on to the Southern shots Water was above flood stage in this shot. Normal is about 20 feet lower. Chattanooga TN crossing the TN river This was somewhere north of Oakdale TN on the Rathole NS diesel shop - Chattanooga TN NS diesel shop - Chattanooga TN NS diesel shop - Chattanooga TN
Great Southern photos! Everything high short hood, and a Tennessee River that looks like a washing machine with that volume of water barreling through. Definitely *not* the delicate cycle...
More Southern A pair of switchers in Chattanooga. The edge of the passenger car you see is part of the derrick train that was rerrailing an intermodal flat that tried to escape and the car hood belongs to my ever faithful railfan tank - a 1972 Chevy Impala 2 door Northbound GP50 at Hixson TN Chattanooga TN Chattanooga TN Chattanooga TN
Southern #2570 probably has its fans but I always thought this high nose design GP30 looked 'Butt Ugly' compared to the regular version. I say this as a big fan of the NKP low nose GP30s Just saying Kev
It does look a bit weird. So did the BL2... But you can't beat a high nose SD45 running long hood forward!
BOOOOOOOO! High Hood GP30's in Southern paint are the best sir Maybe I'm a tad impartial since high hoods are what I grew up seeing the most of? High hood Southern SD45's running long hood forward were an impressive sight sir. A trio leading a coal train looked and sounded exceptionally sweet
Todays selection The 2300 giving the 4501 some help These switcher slug sets were cool GP38-2 SD40 running mid train A Southern GP50 hanging with a pair of CR units
