This is where it started for me
Oct 27, 2017 13:21:20 #
Summer of 1967 I was passing by the local railroad yard and I noticed this locomotive and caboose just sitting there; I had my Instamatic 100 with me {this was my summer halfway through college}, so I took a picture of them {the box controlling crossing gates is on the very left edge of this image - for those rightfully worried about safety and/or trespassing, I was standing on the edge of a road crossing}.
When I got home, I realized I was seeing less and less of that sort of thing, so I began "recording my world today, before it becomes tomorrow and everything changes" - the main motivation of my photography for the past 50-1/2 years.
According to the Internet, the locomotive was scrapped a few years later. A couple of decades later, South Bend replaced this street crossing by a bridge. In another decade or so, laws and rules were changed so that railroads no longer had to use cabooses. Recently, parent road Canadian National absorbed the Grand Trunk Western into itself.
When I got home, I realized I was seeing less and less of that sort of thing, so I began "recording my world today, before it becomes tomorrow and everything changes" - the main motivation of my photography for the past 50-1/2 years.
According to the Internet, the locomotive was scrapped a few years later. A couple of decades later, South Bend replaced this street crossing by a bridge. In another decade or so, laws and rules were changed so that railroads no longer had to use cabooses. Recently, parent road Canadian National absorbed the Grand Trunk Western into itself.
Oct 27, 2017 13:23:38 #
Oct 27, 2017 13:45:09 #
Oct 27, 2017 15:12:40 #
Congratulations, @rehess! You learned something a long time ago that some of us came to late, and some never learn at all. Simon & Garfunkel sang it in 1968 in "Old Friends/Bookends:"
Simon & Garfunkel wrote:
Long ago . . . it must be . . .
I have a photograph
Preserve your memories
They're all that's left you
I have a photograph
Preserve your memories
They're all that's left you
Oct 27, 2017 15:39:50 #
Just Fred wrote:
Congratulations, @rehess! You learned something a long time ago that some of us came to late, and some never learn at all. Simon & Garfunkel sang it in 1968 in "Old Friends/Bookends:"
It's a little more than that. The previous Christmas Season, a friend and I got into a heated discussion about a model locomotive displayed in the local hobby store window. I had been raised a few blocks from the prototype railroad, and was quite sure I'd never seen anything like that; he doubted that a respected company would "just make things up". In later years I determined they had made their attractive model by putting freight unit "decals" on passenger unit paint, but my immediate take-home lesson was that my memory has limited capacity and limited trust from others {that is also behind my reluctance to PP the pictures I take today}.
Oct 28, 2017 23:04:38 #
Yes, things we loved as kids are gone now! Progress! Good shot, rehess!
Oct 29, 2017 01:26:55 #
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