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Huckleberry Village #152
Jan 1, 2019 08:16:46   #
kmpankopf Loc: Mid-Michigan; SW Pennsylvania
 
Our County runs a 1800s village and as part of that attraction is the Huckleberry RR. There are at least two working trains for amusement. One is always in service. At some point both have been through extensive restoration.
This is the #152. The #152 has a wonderful story, built in the 1920's for an Alaskan agency to help build the Alaskan Railroad. The train had a few stops through California and Oregon before winding up in Michigan in the mid-70s.

For more: https://kurtpankopfphotography.blogspot.com/2018/12/huckleberry-village-152.html

As to photography, this was the first time I used MANUAL with AUTO ISO on. It worked great.

Happy New Year to all!

ISO 6400, f/5.6, 1/250 sec, 200 mm, Manual, Auto ISO
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Jan 1, 2019 09:23:16   #
Rich1939 Loc: Pike County Penna.
 
kmpankopf wrote:
Our County runs a 1800s village and as part of that attraction is the Huckleberry RR. There are at least two working trains for amusement. One is always in service. At some point both have been through extensive restoration.
This is the #152. The #152 has a wonderful story, built in the 1920's for an Alaskan agency to help build the Alaskan Railroad. The train had a few stops through California and Oregon before winding up in Michigan in the mid-70s.

For more: https://kurtpankopfphotography.blogspot.com/2018/12/huckleberry-village-152.html

As to photography, this was the first time I used MANUAL with AUTO ISO on. It worked great.

Happy New Year to all!
Our County runs a 1800s village and as part of tha... (show quote)


Nice Holiday season photo!
Is engine 464 hot or was only engine 152 running for the holidays?

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Jan 1, 2019 09:39:33   #
kmpankopf Loc: Mid-Michigan; SW Pennsylvania
 
Rich1939 wrote:
Nice Holiday season photo!
Is engine 464 hot or was only engine 152 running for the holidays?


I don't know about 464. I was out only the two nights and to be honest my first efforts were so bad, ha. I just started getting interested in this subject. According to the website 464 is running. We'll see in a few months when the place opens up again.

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Jan 1, 2019 09:55:48   #
Rich1939 Loc: Pike County Penna.
 
kmpankopf wrote:
I don't know about 464. I was out only the two nights and to be honest my first efforts were so bad, ha. I just started getting interested in this subject. According to the website 464 is running. We'll see in a few months when the place opens up again.

Thank you

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Jan 2, 2019 06:52:28   #
hippi Loc: Sedalia MO
 
wow what a pic some Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath is in order https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNCT6pA5I9A

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Jan 2, 2019 15:17:39   #
jimbuckley Loc: Arizona
 
kmpankopf wrote:
Our County runs a 1800s village and as part of that attraction is the Huckleberry RR. There are at least two working trains for amusement. One is always in service. At some point both have been through extensive restoration.
This is the #152. The #152 has a wonderful story, built in the 1920's for an Alaskan agency to help build the Alaskan Railroad. The train had a few stops through California and Oregon before winding up in Michigan in the mid-70s.

For more: https://kurtpankopfphotography.blogspot.com/2018/12/huckleberry-village-152.html

As to photography, this was the first time I used MANUAL with AUTO ISO on. It worked great.

Happy New Year to all!
Our County runs a 1800s village and as part of tha... (show quote)


Nice...especially when viewed large!

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Jan 15, 2019 08:38:31   #
DickC Loc: NE Washington state
 
Very nice, great Christmas card photo!!

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Apr 1, 2019 21:32:51   #
Tim Stapp Loc: Mid Mitten
 
Interestingly, my daughter got a cinder in her eye at the age of four riding in the caboose behind this locomotive. She wet her pants sitting on my lap when she got her first locomotive cab ride in a GP7 on the Michigan Northern back in the eighties. Did I mention that she was four years old at the time?

That railroad had my heart, since both of my grandfathers retired from the Pennsy. Grandpa Miller was supervisor of MOV from Elkhart, IN to Mackinac City, MI. My Granpa Stapp worked in the engine house in Grand Rapids, MI. My father worked summers packing wheel boxes while in high school.

I got my first and only cab ride after Grandpa Stapp retired while we were at the local feed mill. The local engineer saw Grandpa Stapp and told him to throw me up into the cab. Three hours later, they dropped us off after having gone from Howard City to Cadillac, switched out trains and came back through town.

I recall having sent the train orders up the "pole" for the local coming south. Really heady stuff for a 5 year old. I stood back while they sped by and grabbed the train orders from it.

12 trains a day used to go through our little town, now the tracks are pulled and the ROW is a hiking/snowmobile trail. The Pere Marquette also had an interchange here, but the track was pulled up during the depression. The PM right of way is in my back yard.

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