Re: Ernie Robart's photos in The Friends' collection - and on the NGDF

Dorman Collection Wrote:
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> . . .  We at the Friends are slowly working on
> Ernie Robart's photos, which number some
> 34,000 slides and perhaps an equal number
> of prints/negatives.  Some are now on-line at
> ngtrainpics.photoshelter.com, beginning with
> narrow gauge slides in 1965 (the earliest we
> have found) and currently through 1966 with
> 1967 partially complete.  This collection will
> take us more than the rest of our lives to finish,
> but we hope to get through the narrow gauge
> subjects.


Thank You for the update, Wes -

Ernie once told me that he had 30 tin boxes with 300 slides in each – that's 9,000 slides – but maybe he meant just his Narrow Gauge slides, or just those taken during the last four years of the D&RGW operations between Alamosa and Farmington.  I wouldn't be at all surprised at 34,000 total photos, as I scanned more than 1,700 b&w negs for him just from 1968.  With his permission and encouragement, I posted some of the better ones here on the NGDF in 2018, as close as I could to the fiftieth anniversaries of the dates Ernie took them — see [ngdiscussion.net] for links.

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

p.s.  After scanning his 1968 negatives, I cleaned up (de-spotted and adjusted the lighting a bit) only about 2/5 of the scans, and posted lo-res .jpg copies here on the NGDF.  I sent Ernie CDs with ALL of the hi-res .tif scans from the 1968 negs he sent me.  I assume these disks are among his collection, which could save you a bit of work when you get to 1968 . . .



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/07/2021 01:14PM by Russo Loco.