a picture a day....

A hundred pages and still alive . . . that's success.  

Heading towards 101:

7yr old gazer looking for a train somewhere between Liberal, Ks and Dalhart, Tx.

Aha!

And yes, on the Rock Island. I can't tell from the pic whether those are passenger cars or box cars because of the dust. That dust makes me think he's really rolling so that may well have been The Imperial. From the. shadows it was noon-ish and that agrees with my 1958 Rock Island time table and it would have been very much like my Dad to plan a roadside lunch stop at the right time to catch a passenger train.

Lew

          GREAT photos Lew  !!!       awesome !

Congratulations Brain!!!!

briansilvermustang posted:

 

          GREAT photos Lew  !!!       awesome !

 

Dad obviously had fun setting this up. Of course it helps that he was an excellent photographer.

Lew

          Thanks Patrick  !  

               especially for all the great photos you have posted here

geysergazer posted:

 

        

       

. . . I can't tell from the pic whether those are passenger cars or box cars because of the dust.

Lew

It's a passenger train, all right, and I would agree with you that it is the Imperial.  Taking a look at the track, you can see why it was always a rough ride on the Rock Island.  But it was a fast rough ride.

And as an aside, last weekend marked 39 years since the Rock Island shut down forever.

Canadian Pacific Holiday Express making a rare visit to Kansas City

Some KCS and UP street running in KC West Bottoms

Kusan N de M Alco

Nice photo, Brian! Fireman's door open and he has his foot propped on the frame. Rounded nose looks like an Alco.

Lew

Saturday's six.

Aha! Steam turbine electrics, predecessors to the UP Big Blows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..._turbine_locomotives

Lew

          THANKS  LEW 

Seven for Sunday. " Traffic - Emerging J - Emerging J different angle -  Grade Crossing -  Unloading - Passing Through - The Water Stop"

Wow, Brian, talk about trains, in those days, having the right-of-way and taking precedence over other elements in daily life, as some of us try to figure out how close to have the trains pass to neighborhood elements on layouts...!

Thanks for sharing that one!

FrankM

Nickel Plate

briansilvermustang posted:

 

 

 

 

 

I like this pic, I cropped it and set as my background on my puter.