Brian Norden Wrote:
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> Dirk Ramsey Wrote:
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> > Andy Payne, who
> > wintered in Pueblo at the time, grabbed his
> camera
> > and said "I now have exclusive shots" Andy was
> > hosteling that winter.
>
> Railroaders who travel with cameras are nothing
> new.
>
> Some of the photos that have come down the years
> about the old SP narrow gauge between Mina and
> Keeler were taken by railroaders who had cameras
> in their grips. Some of the time they took photos
> of co-workers so that these could send a photo to
> their relatives. Other views were just of the
> train heading through the terrain.
>
> One report was that a fireman carried a camera
> with him. And one of the machinists that worked
> at Mina (and later at Keeler and elsewhere) also
> seems to have taken a number of photos of the
> railroad and its equipment. And an assistant
> trainmaster/roadmaster working out of Mina
> assembled a scrapbook of photos of the crews, the
> trains, the wrecks, and the years before he
> arrived.
>
> BN
I used to carry my camera with me every day, until the Federales made it illegal to have "personal electronic devices". My old Minolta SRT 202 had no electronics (except the light meter), but they won't even allow that......
It's all crap now.