Steam & Excursion > Barking Out Of Pleasant Lake

The four rolls of film are still being run through the scanner but here's a shot to preview them as Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 #765 barks out of Pleasant Lake, Indiana, as she departs for Hillsdale, Michigan, on the morning of October 17th.

Minolta XD-11, 50mm lens, T-Max 100 film.

Mary McPherson
Dongola, IL
Diverging Clear Productions

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Thanks for sharing. Railroaders used to call this location "P-Lake" or more likely "Pee-Lake. (Maybe they still do.) Love railroader sense of humor and nick names.

Under the bridge at P-Lake to a pit, hobos would camp in that era.  And there was a spur that came off the mainline at P-Lake and served a large gravel pit, originally used to ballast the railroad during the Lake Shore years. But the Lake Shore sold the the pit to a private interest when it (the Lake Shore)  preferred crushed stone over pea gravel. The mainline bridge was put in many years ago when the bridge before it washed out.

Victor Baird



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