.these pictures taken from rear coach (?) of CPR train going over Caledon Mountain, top picture turning right, bottom picture turning left.
.binder standing still. .binder working cutting oats. .second last post, i wonder who binder is?
Showing posts with label train. Show all posts
Showing posts with label train. Show all posts
11.25.2010
.w. t. issell. .4. .black river.
.looks like i may have to take a bit of a road trip up to black river. .it's such a small town, there isn't much information available on the web.
11.14.2010
.we wonder why.
.the one question i get asked most of all, isn't -why do you care? or -what are you going to do with all these? .the question i get asked most of all is -why didn't some who knows these people keep them? .it's kind of sad really. .imagine all your grandparent's photos ending up in the hands of strangers. .what happened to those family members that forced their photos into a discount bill at the local good will? .no grand kids, brothers or sisters to hold onto them. .or maybe there were, and they just didn't care. .and then they end up with me. .i become oddly attached to these strangers, their lives, what they wore, the outings they ventured on and the friends that they made along the way. .i hope someone will have an interest in all my photos when i'm gone one day. .hopefully someone close to me, and that will pass them down for generations. .and hopefully my awkward family photos will be hidden in shoe boxes for many many years.
.in one sleeve of slides, i've found everything from historical train trips, historic airplanes and graduations to family portraits and celebrations. .below is a selection (including a family photo that maybe they would have wished would have stayed in a family shoebox) of one random box that has no connection to anything else i have. .i find it amazing that after only a few photos, i can start to imagine how these people's lives unfolded. .in this case, a young man shares his life with us.
.yup, maybe this one should have stayed in the vault!
.a view from the 6218 train.
11.07.2010
.trains.2.
.after getting some requests for a better scan of one of the images, i noticed that the conductor and an other man can be seen hanging out of the side of the train. .maybe that will help me figure out where these were taken?
.planes. .trains. ...
.i have one case of slides that don't seem to belong to anything else i have. .maybe more will turn up, but until then, here is a glimpse of the trains in hamilton, and i think the planes may be from florida.
.the 6218 was the last coal fired locomotive to run out of montreal. .the engineer was angus louis duncan, it is now currently on display at the CNR fort eerie railroad museum.
.history of spitfire mk ix mk923. .the above plane.
http://www.jerrybilling.com/Jerry%20Billing%20Spitfire's/History%20of%20Spitfire%20MK923.htm
.this was the page inside the box.
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