Re: Histoerical Purity - Hear Whee Go Again!! ...

Tom Gildersleeve Wrote:
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> ... As far as I'm concerned, digital is now con-
> siderably sharper than 35mm film ...  The stuff
> [we] shot on ISO 25 Kodachrome II is generally
> pretty good optically.

It's your Kodachromes - and JBWX's - that I was referring to ...

> The image looks far better in gray than I would
> have expected.   As to moving the pole, Kevin
> merely shot a few seconds [earlier] and avoided
> the problem. I am guilty of moving a pole in one
> of my shots, but I won't tell you which one and
> nobody would be able to identify it, not even if
> you were standing next to me at the time.

And I (also?) moved a pole in one of your flanger-train shots that you sent for the screen saver ...

> As to the Steinhemer shot, it does not move me.
> Somehow you and Kevin inadvertently managed to
> include a train in your shots, and it made a huge
> difference.   Yours come alive; his does not.

Uh, SFAIK, Kevin's timing wasn't inadvertent, Tom.   And I had Stein's foto firmly in my feeble mind ...
Here's my color shot from a minute or two earlier:


And a B&W variation, including a caption that I'm sure Alan Loomis will appreciate (with apologies to Richard Steinheimer):


> Okay; if you think my stuff from the early [and
> mid] sixties was wonderful, who am I to argue!!

And JBWX's, too.   And I'm not the only one!!

> That's an interesting subject. Based on audience
> reaction at Winterail, you might get more fans if
> they did dieselize. As to you and me, maybe we
> could meet in the middle and run enough trains to
> make the railroad prosperous ... but not so pros-
> perous that the railroad needed to diseaselize and
> throw Curmudgeons like you [[u]us[/u]] off the property.

AMEN to that, Tom!

> By the way, please explain to an uneducated
> person such as myself what IMHO means.


Hi, Tom -

Happy to oblige.   Here are a few of the abbreviations used frequently on the NGDF:
     "BTW" = "By The Way ... "
    "IMHO" = "In My 'Humble' Opinion   (A polite euphemism for "I heartily disagree".)
      "IIRC" = "If I Remember Correctly"   (I may be wrong, but I remember it this way.)
   "SFAIK" = "So Far As I Know"   (I'd bet $10,000 on it, but probably not my life.)

The following also appear from time to time:
"Foam" (v) = "Behave like a Foamer"   (Go to extremes to shoot RR photos)
  "Foamer" = "Far Out And Mentally Erratic Railfan"   (One who foams at the mouth upon seeing a train - even a diseasel.)

BTW, you need to participate more regularly on the NGDF, so that JBWX and I aren't the only Old Curmudgeons posting regularly.
Roger Hogan turned 70 last month is now an official Curmudgeon as well, but he didn't "foam" the D&RGW in the sixties ...    

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender