This is WW I. It was taken from around the Big Four station in Anderson Indiana on the street side. Although I don't know what the occasion was, it is a great picture.
Great picture, Roger. Like Kurt said, that time period. What a difference in the way people now dress.
I've seen that picture before, somewhere. I remember the guy with the lighter-colored big overcoat, in front, and the guy with one foot hanging over the curb, at right. Doug
Roger, I'm new here and love the pictures you post. But many are not available. Did they get lost in a website update? I have gone back 90 pages or so and am not seeing anything as I go back in time. Dave
I'm not certain, but I think I recall that a software update some years ago had the unfortunate consequence of pulling the plug on many images. I agree, Roger has some great pictures and interesting recollections.
Thanks for the updates, also did the Indiana Railroads bull session website go down? I used to follow that one but can't access that anymore. It seems like all the cool railroad stuff online is disappearing. Oh well, I guess I came to the game too late.
Hardcoaler, Indiana Railroads Bull Session moving to Facebook means that they gave up. It was a wonderful website that got messed up people posting sightings and a lack of website management. The guy who ran it did not know what he was doing, hence, the website abolished. Just think of all the hours of time spent by people loading and writing railroad related stories information and pics. Everytime someone posts a picture, it's lost forever. Gone, lost. It's going to happen here also, actually it's already happened. Facebook is a joke which I will have no part of. If no one can keep a website together related to trains, we are screwed. Our history is lost. HIS TORY + His story lost. SAD Dave
It's frustrating to be sure. I'm a member of an interlocking tower group that has largely suffered the same fate, with lots of valuable historic detail lost. We had a very large Excel list of U.S. interlocking tower locations going back to early days, all with excellent detail. There was a core group of us who participated with additions and corrections submitted to the group's leader who quickly made the edits. The leader became busy with other efforts and passed his function to someone who was not knowledgeable about the topic nor trained in use of Excel. In short order, the data was hopelessly ruined and when I sent messages to make corrections, nothing was done and new submissions were ignored. Today, there's but a small handful of members remaining and I no longer participate. I think a lot of webmasters begin with great enthusiasm. They then realize maintaining a website is much more work than they thought and let it run on auto pilot, where it eventually crashes. I'm a member in another historic group and its webmaster is smart. He's an excellent communicator and plans to simplify the site for easier maintenance.
If referencing an update here, yes. Unfortunately that did happen. It was an unintended consequence of changing to a quite different style of software.
Software developers (not you guys) who don't really know what they are doing. We had guys like that at Telex who would lose large swaths of databases through carelessness or ignorance. Doug
Yeah, your right. Miss his posts. Just looked at his bio-June 3, 2022 was his last post, exactly one year ago.
I also miss his posts. He came up with some nice area depot photos, along with everything else. Maybe someone could drop him a PM?