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JoeD

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Great historical photo link.
« on: February 19, 2018, 04:55:54 PM »
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you have a few hours of down time and you are looking for historic railroad shots...check this out.  https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/albums/page1

Too much Pennsy for my taste, but...  :D
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Re: Great historical photo link.
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2018, 05:36:53 PM »
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Well, I for one had not seen this before, so I'm glad to learn about it. 
Hours?  It could take weeks to really dig through just the railroads and geographic locations of interest to see if there are any useful modeling photos, and that's in addition to just enjoying all the "railroadiness" of collections like this.

I do wish they had some way to label the photos.  I didn't find any that could identify even the location and year.  Sometimes from the facilities, cars, steam locomotives, or structures, you can take a guess at "1930s" or "1950s", but mostly, it is very hard to tell what you are looking at or where it is.

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Re: Great historical photo link.
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2018, 05:46:32 PM »
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I commented on a bunch of the Erie photos to give the location. Some are reversed, some were reversed and were fixed. There's even one crossing my street.

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Re: Great historical photo link.
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2018, 08:41:29 PM »
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Thank you for the reminder!

I forget about this from time to time, and love rediscovering it.

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Re: Great historical photo link.
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2018, 08:54:56 PM »
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While I hate replying to topicks clearly posted in the wrong forum  :P , http://www.shorpy.com/  is a great repository of all sorts of historical photos (not just RR related) and so is the https://www.loc.gov/ .
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Re: Great historical photo link.
« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2018, 09:37:53 PM »
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I've been going through the AC&F photos, and now I have a few more projects.
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