Kato and KCS worked together to develop it back in 2009 when the Victoria Sub, AKA the Macaroni line, was rebuilt.
K39(Savanna, IL-Mason City, IA) passing a new set of signals recently activated for CTC(Sabula Junction to CTC CP 24). December 21, 2022 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
A string of freight cars on a siding in front of a 10 million bushel grain elevator somewhere in Kansas along the Santa Fe. Someone "dancing" atop the C&O box car. Probably signalling an engine switching the yard there. Santa Fe, PRR, C&O, NYC, GN and Seaboard are represented. March 1943 photo by Jack Delano. Library of Congress collection.
Nice light and framing. There's something about the first morning light that invigorates a scene and the heart.
Looks like you made the best of it! It's been colder here than the hinges on the gates of hell after the Browns win the Superbowl!
It's still incredible, to me, to see color photographs from the era a lot of us consider the black and white times as we didn't live those days. I mean, 1943 is the year my dad graduated from high school! Doug
There are a bunch of color photos at this site at the Library of Congress. Not just trains but aircraft, farming, industry and people. I spend hours just looking at the photos. When I find something that I find really interesting, I download the tif image which is usually very high resolution. The scans are pretty rough with some dust and lint but I enjoy cleaning them up in photoshop, getting rid of the dirt, cropping them and adjusting the exposure. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?sp=1&co=fsac&st=grid
That link is a real gold mine, Russell! I already found myself, within a few minutes, sampling some photos, and seeing color slides from 1941! One of the first was of an elderly couple at the Vermont state fair in the 1940s, picnicking out of the trunk of their car, a beautiful snapshot of simpler times. This could get addictive... Many thanks for sharing that.
Another image from the Library of Congress site. Locomotives lined up for coal, sand and water at the coaling station in the 40th Street yard of the Chicago & North Western in Chicago, Ill. Jack Delano photo December 1942.
What a gold mine!!! Love that link. Sure gives a unique, unfiltered, gritty view of life in the 1940s. Another Library of Congress image: View in a departure yard at C & NW RR's [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's] Proviso (?) yard at twilight, Chicago, Ill. Brakeman is signaling with a red flare and the train is going by during exposure.
During the The Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society convention in Temple, Texas in June of 2012 we had a chartered excursion aboard the Austin Steam Train Association's equipment. On the return trip from Burnet back to Cedar Park they stopped for a photo run by.
