A little late kicking things off this morning. Already been out working on the honey do list this morning. Anyway, here is a catch from last Sunday. Hope you all have a great weekend!
From about 1975, a Chicago South Shore & South Bend train makes a stop along Chicago's lakefront. The 102 was built in 1926 and was rebuilt and lengthened after WW-II. It was sold to the Boone & Scenic Valley RR in Boone, IA in 1984 where it is being salvaged for parts.
This may have been the photo which caused me to finally go digital. Kodak's processing and film quality had deteriorated to essentially being junk. This is so grainy, so far from sharp, compared to views of similar subject matter I had captured in prior decades. . No matter what I tried, they were all coming back this way and looking as if processed in sewer water... Palouse River & Coulee City GP35 #2357 was departing Kalispell, Montana, trailing Eastern Idaho RR GP30 #4203, back in the first couple of years Mission Mountain RR operated this ex-GN branch line:
I used Fuji film with my Ricoh KR5 camera back in the day. I never was disappointed. But I went to digital (Pentax K100D) in 2007 just because it was a new doodad... - and so much more practical. Your photo probably would have come out more like this had the sewer water been exchanged for something less icky: There's hardly any green/yellow in the original. I used the pavement and the vegetation near the fence as references. A touch of sharpening helped a bit. My Dad avoided Kodak near the end, and stuck to Fuji too. He developed nearly all of his films himself.
Some Amtrak Keystone Service action this afternoon at Elizabethtown, PA. The eastbound Pennsylvanian enters the station. Keystone Service train 670 with an ACS64 electric leading and an ex-PC Metroliner cab control car trailing follows a bit later. Finally, a late westbound Pennsylvanian boards passengers behind a tired and faded P42.
