rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Skipping most of the long back story ... in the summer of 1967 I was a college student when my Dad arranged for me to ride into Chicago with a colleague who had a meeting there. I took this {with a box camera} looking south from the famous Roosevelt Street bridges towards the Burlington's commuter coach yard. When I returned to Purdue University in the Fall, I took my summer's pictures with me for the first meeting of the year of the Purdue RR Club; at the end of the operating session, my pictures were gone - and the negatives were with them! - never to be seen by me again! Yes, I was devastated. It turned out that two pictures weren't in the envelop - this one {because I had sat on it while it was sitting on my bed, so it was creased}, and a badly under-exposed picture of a transfer caboose. When I got my first scanner, this print was one of the first things I scanned. Some day I need to locate the two negatives and see if I can do a better job with them

Jay Pat Loc: Round Rock, Texas, USA

Good restoration.
Pat

Stephan G

All those double deckers! On short runs, they had a Pullman coach between the engine and a double decker.

I graduated from a high school on 12th Street not too far from there west, the year prior. The school remains.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

I didn't store original for a good reason - zooming in would reveal ugliness - that is why I need to do the whole thing from scratch ... but thank you for the kind words.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

1967-68 I had two cameras - a Kodak Instamatic 100 and a Kodak Duaflex; the latter was a 620 box camera my Dad originally used to take baby pictures of me. The shutter on the Instamatic died in 1969 a few days before I graduated from college; I mourned its loss, but that forced me to use graduation money to purchase my first 35mm camera. Before that, the highest shutter speed available to me was 1/100, so I really appreciated the capability that is known as "shuttter priority" mode today.

I took the image below the following year, when my brother and I rode both to and from Chicago on GTW passenger trains. I shows that car you're talking about, but it also has the motion blur I was stuck with at the time.

and here is an Instamatic view of that car

Stephan G

I rode Chicago and Northwestern for the most part back then. Even up to Upper Michigan.