In addition to Delano, there are other sources for WWII (or close) colour info on railway equipment. Folks have posted video links here over the years. Sometimes it is not 100% clear what vintage

Rob, A shift toward pink suggests that the negatives might be deteriorating. Although I've heard the Kodachrome was supposedly more stable than the later Ektrchrome (and far better than Agfachrome,

Thanks for this Bill. The big blue sky thought - as well as your other observations - make good sense to me. I had not considered Delano’s possible use of a filter. It isn’t something I am

Notes from Larry Occhiello's Santa Fe book, Listing Of Freight Cars By Class & Car Number 1906-1991, indicate one of the three series of Sk-K livestock cars (54300-54499) had sold bottoms. Bob

Hi Garth - this is the second time the red shift in Kodak film has been mentioned in the various threads of last week or so. I’m thinking when I look at the Delano images that the red is the

I have similar concerns. I’ve pulled a fair number of Delano’s photos into a top end photo editor and “adjusted” them. They look better. But what I wonder is this: Is today’s “better”

Friends, FWIIW, Jack Delano probably used Kodachrome Professional sheet film with an ASA of 8 or 10. Such slow films were all that was available until the 1950s. When I was a military photographer in

Dunno why some people focus on the flying gondola; Mather made his first fortune (which paid for the freight cars) with a patented glove clasp that's still in use today. You'd think that his 1905

Rob, A couple of points and then I'll be quiet. The Delano boxcar snip looked to have a color cast. I took it into Lightroom and as small as the PNG is, it still revealed a blue cast over the entire

Photo: NYC&HR Gondola 81888 A photo from the National Archives of Canada: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=3277265 This photo can be enlarged

Be sure to include examples of Alonzo's patents. His patent for a "Flying Machine" is a classic. Any company that could build a skyscraper in Chicago's Loop district might have been scrappy, but was

Dave, Tony, and all; I agree with everything being said, with the addition that while true for the PRR (I grew up in Pittsburgh in the sixties and seventies, and well remember the air, water and

Re: Delano film color I thought Delano's WWII color film was Kodachrome? Arguably the most accurate and stable color film of that era? What better reference do we have? I am not a color expert, but

The heading for this photo is incorrect. This is MP 73799. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Is that an odd load, or an expedient extended side? Jim Gates

And a resin model of that "beautiful" N&W Class B-5 boxcar is available in HO scale from Yarmouth! http://www.yarmouthmodelworks.com/index.php/ResinModelKits/Index Jim Brewer

While it is not the same as a N&W hopper climbing the Wasatch , here is a B-5 class on the UP, behind a 2-8-0

The photo attached is of a car from the 73501-74250 series, built by Pullman and Pennsylvania Car in 1925. Ron Merrick

Hi Bruce - yes - I recall your model era, and I’d like to see that clinic! I appreciate how the Delano colours are not accurate/real. There are all kinds of biases in there. Colour correction in

I wish I could have sat in on one of those clinics; and look forward to the next time you can update that clinic. Mustn’t have been in the few years I made it to Cocoa Beach. It’s exactly what I