Re: Scrapping the original WW&F >>Re-enactment Photos<<

guymonmd Wrote:
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> Thank you for sharing your photos and story.
> I find it interesting that the track would have
> been take up in that way back in 1933.  It was
> at the height of the great depression so cheap
> labor was available. I think the 1933 crew may
> have been younger on average than the crew
> in the re-enactment.
>
> I don't know that many on this board including
> me would want to work on the re-enactment
> crew for more than a couple of hours.  That
> looks like hard work involving sore backs.


I'll second the 'Thank You', Kevin -

And add my appreciation of the photos you posted, my only reservation being my first impression that they are TOO good.  While many "formal" portraits of railroads in the 'Olden Days' were done on extremely sharp large-format cameras, it's more likely that scrapping operations would have been photographed – if at all – by locals or amateurs using the readily available "drugstore" cameras of the day, with the results being much less "crisp" than the ones you posted.  The photo posted above of the actual even in 1933 illustrates what I'm talking about – a much softer focus with much less contrast than in your modern replications.

- El Curmudgeoño de la Costa del Oro, Roosso (MUY) Loco