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Nostalgia & History > Maroon Monday: a few extra WAGsDate: 09/29/14 09:10 Maroon Monday: a few extra WAGs Author: santafe199 Here are 3 ‘odds & ends’ images taken by Art Gibson [aka WAG Jr], the “Junior” partner of Team Gibson. They are just some misc scans I took a second look at before filing them into the permanent Gibson archives. There are very minor reasons here & there for not posting any of these images. But when I looked at the subject matter something in my railfan heart says heck-yeah! Why not post everyone’s nostalgic and/or pet favorite railroad; the Mighty Fine Rock Island? After each caption, in parenthesis, I’ve inserted my initial & very lame reasoning against posting… :^/
1. CRI&P 43 rounds that sharp curve in the approach to the south side of the Kansas River bridge in Topeka, KS on March 21, 1965. (Not quite a duplicate, but I think I’ve posted a CRI&P shot very similar to this one in the past…) 2. REA trucks adjacent to the Rock Island freighthouse in Wichita, KS on January 1, 1967. (with an unfortunate beginning [?] of the film roll light leak exposure flaw…) 3. CRI&P 1329 with a southbound manifest in Cline Yard in Wichita, KS in December of 1973. (I couldn’t seem to get a good, sharp scan out of 3 attempts) 3 photos by William A. [Art] Gibson Jr. Thank goodness for a second look! Lance Garrels (santafe199) Art Gibson (wag216) Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/23/22 21:48 by santafe199. Date: 09/29/14 09:22 Re: Maroon Monday: a few extra WAGs Author: wag216 photo #2-- the 543 ( I think) is on the ground. The boys just left her sit until the next day. The CRI&P freight house was "torched" by some vagrents a year or so later. wag216
Date: 09/29/14 09:40 Re: Maroon Monday: a few extra WAGs Author: santafe199 wag216 Wrote:
> The CRI&P freight house was "torched" by some vagrents a year or so later... OUCH! Sounds like a rehearsal for Emporia in 1999... Lance Date: 09/29/14 10:12 Re: Maroon Monday: a few extra WAGs Author: SD45X I hear Willy singing " On the ground again. ....just can't wait to be on the ground again. "
LOL. Posted from Android Date: 09/29/14 10:24 Re: Maroon Monday: a few extra WAGs Author: santafe199 SD45X Wrote:
> I hear Willy singing " On the ground again... (chuckling!) Unfortunately for the Rock, that could have been a very recurrent theme song all during the 1970s... :^( Lance Date: 09/29/14 23:56 Re: Maroon Monday: a few extra WAGs Author: traingeek087 Number 3 is the gem in this collection. Check out those Fairmont M9s. Pretty little Fairmont motorcars.
Traingeek087 Date: 09/30/14 01:18 Re: Maroon Monday: a few extra WAGs Author: Red SD45X Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > I hear Willy singing " On the ground again. > ....just can't wait to be on the ground again. " > LOL. > > Posted from Android And all over the entier System... |