Re: Fans in Antonito & Chama on 08/28 & 08/29, 1967
| January 28, 2023 12:28PM |
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Hello again -
That is definitely my green TR-4 at the far left in the second photo, with one of my UCLA room-mates – who was NOT a railfan – sitting, bored stiff, in the passenger seat. And that is not me in the third photo — my Hoot Gibson ten-gallon hat was MUCH bigger than that one and lasted through at least three more years of train chasing. (See the first photo on [ngdiscussion.net] — I'm just left of center, standing next to Ernie Robart in his silver hard-hat.)
Both John G. and John W. (aka JBWX) had me WAY out-gunned in the camera department. Fortunately, I was able to replace my dad's old Praktica 35mm and it's mediocre 55mm lens (made even worse by the cheap 2X extender I used off-&-on back then) with a Pentax H3v and 70-150mm zoom lens the following year. The shots I got of the very last revenue freights over Cumbres exactly a year later were MUCH sharper than those from the 1967 trip — see the June 2018 issue of Trains. In any event, even with the help of a superb Nikon 9000 scanner I wasn't able to get much out of those fuzzy old negs, and I can't try again because all my narrow-gauge slides and negatives anywhere near worth saving are now in The Friends archives. Here's the best I can do with a re-edit and crop of the first photo of John & Dick, where they're way off at the lower right corner as #497 backs a few carloads of fuel to the coaling tower:
It looks like John was getting photos of the brakeman controlling the back-up move with old-fashioned hand signals!
Here's a crop and re-edit of the second one, where they're near the center of the photo of #497 getting her tender topped off:
Feel free to Please download and pass them along to Dick Gruber.
I exposed only one frame between the two above, this shot as #497 completed her morning's chores:
John probably took half a dozen photos at least — both semi-tele and wide-angle views.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
p.s. Per Ernie Robart's notes that accompanied some negs he sent me for scanning a few years ago, fireman Smith's first name was Stanley.
See [ngdiscussion.net] for pix.
pps. As noted, all my n.g. photos are now in The Friends archives, but most of them have also been posted here on the NGDF – along with a fair amount of narrative – starting at [ngdiscussion.net], then jumping to [ngdiscussion.net] and jumping again to [ngdiscussion.net] et seq.
Edited 6 time(s). Last edit at 06/01/2023 03:26PM by Russo Loco.
That is definitely my green TR-4 at the far left in the second photo, with one of my UCLA room-mates – who was NOT a railfan – sitting, bored stiff, in the passenger seat. And that is not me in the third photo — my Hoot Gibson ten-gallon hat was MUCH bigger than that one and lasted through at least three more years of train chasing. (See the first photo on [ngdiscussion.net] — I'm just left of center, standing next to Ernie Robart in his silver hard-hat.)
Both John G. and John W. (aka JBWX) had me WAY out-gunned in the camera department. Fortunately, I was able to replace my dad's old Praktica 35mm and it's mediocre 55mm lens (made even worse by the cheap 2X extender I used off-&-on back then) with a Pentax H3v and 70-150mm zoom lens the following year. The shots I got of the very last revenue freights over Cumbres exactly a year later were MUCH sharper than those from the 1967 trip — see the June 2018 issue of Trains. In any event, even with the help of a superb Nikon 9000 scanner I wasn't able to get much out of those fuzzy old negs, and I can't try again because all my narrow-gauge slides and negatives anywhere near worth saving are now in The Friends archives. Here's the best I can do with a re-edit and crop of the first photo of John & Dick, where they're way off at the lower right corner as #497 backs a few carloads of fuel to the coaling tower:
It looks like John was getting photos of the brakeman controlling the back-up move with old-fashioned hand signals!
Here's a crop and re-edit of the second one, where they're near the center of the photo of #497 getting her tender topped off:
I exposed only one frame between the two above, this shot as #497 completed her morning's chores:
John probably took half a dozen photos at least — both semi-tele and wide-angle views.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
p.s. Per Ernie Robart's notes that accompanied some negs he sent me for scanning a few years ago, fireman Smith's first name was Stanley.
See [ngdiscussion.net] for pix.
pps. As noted, all my n.g. photos are now in The Friends archives, but most of them have also been posted here on the NGDF – along with a fair amount of narrative – starting at [ngdiscussion.net], then jumping to [ngdiscussion.net] and jumping again to [ngdiscussion.net] et seq.
Edited 6 time(s). Last edit at 06/01/2023 03:26PM by Russo Loco.
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