About
Welcome to my world of trains and related artifacts.
I lived the first 18 years of my life in “South Philly” (Philadelphia, PA) between the B&O’s East Side Yard and the PRR’s 25th Street Viaduct. Since then I’ve lived in (not in temporal order) Lowell, MA; Long Beach, CA; Duluth, MN; Miami, FL; and many other places between those across the USA, including 12 years in ChicagoLand and 10.5 years in California. I have many memories of trains, and a few crude prints, from my early years. I discovered I was not alone in my railroad interests when I bought my first issue of TRAINS magazine in July ’66 (the one with the Brill Bullet on the cover) at a little shop on Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA. I began seriously photographing trains on “The Day Before Amtrak,” April 30, 1971, in Chicago, IL, and haven’t stopped since. Initially, I used print film in “point and shoot” cameras, switched to slide film in April ’73, to a 35 mm SLR camera in January ’75, and to digital imaging in September ’00. I have most of the prints and negatives, all of the slides (over 14,440 of them) and all of the digital images, along with databases for the slides and digital images. I have scanned the prints and negatives into digital files, am scanning the slides, adding new digital images to my collection, and maintaining a database for them.
Love your collections of current and older railroad photos. I particularly enjoyed many of the top down perspectives showing all the roof details. Let me know when you post more to your heritage sections.
Paul
was wandering if you had any images from indiana from the 70′s to mid eighties?
was wandering if you had any pics from indiana from the 70′s to mid eighties.love your other railroad pics.
Matt, Thanks for the compliment. I lived in Granger, IN (~10 miles northeast of South Bend), May ’84 — July ’86, and visited several times in the late ’80s and ’90s. I posted those images about a year or two ago. I will be posting images of a visit in ’90 in a few minutes and next week, too. Gerry
Jerry dont want to see mesueums or old buildings we want to see train
Todd, You’re welcome to your opinion. I publish what I like. Gerry