Meow that's hawt

[asciibaron]

i wish i had taken more pictures in the late 80/early 90's.  my buddy james was a better camera operator and he got some great stuff.  611, 1218, 614, tons of Chessie, tons of N&W and Southern, Conrail.  CP.  it makes me go mad thinking about what i missed.  i still wish it was 1993 for a few reasons, trains included.

gotta get out with the camera.  as Roger Durfee said to me, one day what we have now will all be gone.

[Dave V]

i wish i had taken more pictures in the late 80/early 90's.  my buddy james was a better camera operator and he got some great stuff.  611, 1218, 614, tons of Chessie, tons of N&W and Southern, Conrail.  CP.  it makes me go mad thinking about what i missed.  i still wish it was 1993 for a few reasons, trains included.

gotta get out with the camera.  as Roger Durfee said to me, one day what we have now will all be gone.

Hear hear...  Although 1994 for me (that's when I first started dating my wife) at Penn State.  All those trips up 322 from Harrisburg and never paid enough attention to the Big Blue.  Went out to Horseshoe but only had vague awareness of what I was seeing (it was still all blue standard cabs, but I preferred steam).

Hell, I've even ridden behind GG1s as a tot...  And my mom still has pictures I drew of them with crayons on construction paper, some even with stripes.

[asciibaron]

Hell, I've even ridden behind GG1s as a tot...  And my mom still has pictures I drew of them with crayons on construction paper, some even with stripes.

man, you're old.

[Dave V]

Hell, I've even ridden behind GG1s as a tot...  And my mom still has pictures I drew of them with crayons on construction paper, some even with stripes.

man, you're old.

LOL...  Amtrak was done with Gs by 81, and NJT kept them until 83.  I was 7 in 1981, so like I said. I have vague memories.  The stripes may have been influenced by the RR Museum of PA, but I know there was 4935 and a Tuscan one in 5-stripe running for NJT.

[wm3798]

I didn't get out much between about 85 and 2000, other than the odd WMRHS convention or a random catch here and there.  But in retrospect, once the Dash-8's started showing up on Conrail, I started to lose interest anyway.  I never liked watching Chessie, although it was fun to catch old B&O still in blue, and it was indeed a good day when on the way home from work I caught this at Riverside...



But otherwise it wasn't much more than a bunch of filthy cats, and Conrail was cleaning up its act, which to me lost some of its character.  I probably captured a lot more than I remember, there's still a pile of film undeveloped in the kitchen drawer...  I guess I should start getting it processed before they forget how to do it!

What I wish I had paid attention to was the WM traffic out by Hancock in the early 70's.  Every summer we would go to Ohio for a couple of weeks, and I recall seeing trains on the long siding at Tonoloway, but I couldn't tell you if they were moving.  Later I remember seeing lots of trailer flats stored there, probably during the recession of 79.  Now I can go there to hike and look at lonely telegraph poles...

Lee