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GRAND DELUXE EXPRESS WAITING AT LAMY, NEW MEXICO
The Grand Deluxe Express at Lamy, New Mexico, 2007 The very first time that I went to the Amtrak Station in Lamy (Santa Fe), NM was May 28, 2007. This was on the same trip to the southwest that I … Continue reading
Posted in alternative view, backroads, color photography, fine art photography, historic new mexico, Lamy, New Mexico, railroad, railroads, small town, streamliner, train, trains
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More Eureka Southern/NCRA/ Northwestern Pacific Railroad Equipment Decomposing in Eureka
Part of the North Coast Rail Authority fleet of neglected locomotives. 2014
VINTAGE HUMBOLDT TRAINS:
THE EUREKA SOUTHERN RAILROAD Central California Traction number 70 at Eureka CA c.1992. I think this locomotive was purchased from CCT for use by the Eureka Southern Railroad (former Northwestern Pacific Railroad). Sadly this unit was ultimately trashed and bashed … Continue reading
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SP 4449 at Sacramento 1991.
HAND TINTED TRAIN
Colorized train at Laws Museum near Bishop, CA. Pardon me if I shared this before.
ARTS ALIVE THIS SATURDAY
Here is a sample of my images that are part of the exhibit at the F Street Foto Gallery (upstairs at Swanlund’s Photography in Eureka). Most of my images are scanned negatives and color slides from the nineteen eighties and … Continue reading
Posted in abandoned buildings, acv, aircraft, alternative view, black and white, buildings, california history, film photography, fine art photography, historic eureka, historic humboldt, historic railroad, humboldt bay, humboldt county, humboldt county history, northwestern pacific railroad, old military, p-51 mustang, pacific ocean, photography exhibit eureka, railroad, southern pacific, train, Uncategorized, vintage aircraft
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OCTOBER EXHIBIT AT F STREET FOTO GALLERY
Here is an example of the images that I will exhibit next month. I took most of them in the nineteen-eighties. Some were color slides, and others were large format black and white. These locomotives were parked at Simpson’s Korbel … Continue reading
Posted in aircraft, arcata history, black and white, film photography, fine art photography, historic building, historic humboldt, historic railroad, history of humboldt county, locomotive, mad river, monochrome, northwestern pacific railroad, nwp, railroad, railroads, train, Uncategorized
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NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD TRAIN AT DEL NORTE STREET
There were a couple of tracks at Del Norte Street (the dock is behind me and to the right). I assume that this was an inbound freight. The railroad was still active in the nineteen-eighties as the timber industry was … Continue reading
Posted in color photography, eureka, film photography, fine art photography, historic eureka, historic railroad, history of humboldt county, humboldt bay, locomotive, northwestern pacific railroad, nwp, pacific coast, pacific ocean, railroad, railroads, southern pacific, sp, train, trains, Uncategorized
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HUMBOLDT BAY IN THE NINETEEN EIGHTIES
This image is a scanned 35mm color slide from about nineteen-eighty. I used to ride my bicycle to the Del Norte dock to watch and photograph the harbor activity. I took this photograph from the bluff above Broadway. The … Continue reading
Posted in color photography, fine art photography, historic eureka, historic humboldt, historic railroad, history of humboldt county, humboldt bay, northwestern pacific railroad, nwp, pacific coast, pacific ocean, pulp mill, railroad, railroads, simpson pulp mill, southern pacific, trains, Uncategorized
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Visiting Old Negatives
At the Pennsylvania Railroad Museum thirty years ago.
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