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ed_mines
The fallen flags web site has an incredible number of photos
including freight car photos but most of those freight car photos were taken after the steam era. However the Erie section (part of EL I think) has many steam era freight car photos including builders photos and official Erie photographer John Long photos. Almost all of these Erie freight car photos were unselfishly donated by Dan Biernacki who rescued the negatives from a dumpster. Do any of the other railroad files contain steam era freight car photos or diagrams? There must be 100s of files. I haven't found any others with steam era freight cars. Ed |
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Schuyler Larrabee
Ed Mines asks, regarding George Elwood's Fallen
Flags site: Do any of the other railroad files contain steamera freight car photos or diagrams? There must be 100s offiles. I haven't found any others with steam era freightcars. George posts what he gets given to him. It's amazing what people have given him, and to some degree WHO has given him stuff, like Vollrath. I think Vollrath figures that if you REALLY want the photo in a good quality way, you'll buy the real print from him. People need to realize that photos are only useful if others can see them. Yeah, I know about copyright issues, but at some point you have to trust that anybody using these images for a serious use like publication, or even detailing a model, will be looking for a quality print, and asking permissions. Give George your images so he can make that site even more of a resource than it is. SGL |
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Ray Breyer <rbreyer@...>
Ed,
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The Fallen Flags site is one of the best online for steam-era freight car photos and diagrams, but it's not the only one. There are several railroad-specific sites with hundreds of diagrams, especially the NYC and Pennsy. Another good general site is the NEB&W website ($5 a month, but well worth it). And although it takes a LOT of time, digging through all the photos and links on Railfan.net will yield additional information. Looking to non-rail sites, the Denver Public Library has hundreds of rail-related photos online (mostly Colorado prototypes), and the Library of Congress has thousands (want to know what the Chicago railroad scene looked like in color, in 1942?) Here's just a few of the many sites online that include visual RR information: http://railroad.union.rpi.edu/ http://www.icgphotos.com/ http://www.loc.gov/ http://photoswest.org/ http://abpr2.railfan.net/ http://kc.pennsyrr.com/ http://www.snowcrest.net/photobob/upr.html http://www.readingrailroad.org/gallery/rdg_gallery_rolling.html Ray Breyer -----Original Message-----
From: ed_mines [mailto:ed_mines@...] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 3:10 AM To: STMFC@... Subject: [STMFC] fallen flags web site The fallen flags web site has an incredible number of photos including freight car photos but most of those freight car photos were taken after the steam era. However the Erie section (part of EL I think) has many steam era freight car photos including builders photos and official Erie photographer John Long photos. Almost all of these Erie freight car photos were unselfishly donated by Dan Biernacki who rescued the negatives from a dumpster. Do any of the other railroad files contain steam era freight car photos or diagrams? There must be 100s of files. I haven't found any others with steam era freight cars. Ed |
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Stanley Agar
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From: STMFC@... Date: 10/15/04 03:58:32 To: STMFC@... Subject: [STMFC] fallen flags web site Ed asked ...... Do any of the other railroad files contain steam era freight car photos or diagrams? There must be 100s of files. I haven't found any others with steam era freight cars. Good afternoon, Steam era pics turn up in many of the files. However the resent postings by Steve Wydeck of ACF builders photos are at ........ http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/acfx/acf-h.html Which is tacked on to the ACF Industries file, these have not been sorted into the main files. Lots of photos. Stan |
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ed_mines
--- In STMFC@..., "Stan Agar" <stanrail@x> wrote: Steam
era pics turn up in many of the files. However the resent postings by Steve Wydeck of ACF builders photos are at ........ http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/acfx/acf-h.html Do'nt know how I missed thes but there's a lot to sort through. Thanks stan. Ed |
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