Nostalgia & History > Warbonnet Wednesday: in beautiful B/W!

Is there such a thing as “muscle memory” for eyesight? If so, then this is one of the most colorful B/W images I’ve seen in a long time! I dare say there is a small army of railfans here on TO that can look at this abundance of gray tones and see a splendid Red & Silver gem from Bill Gibson’s camera!

With 1000s of slides & negatives from multiple photographers still waiting to be scanned I keep stubbing my “Photoshop toe” on what I call hard luck cases. While auditing at a snail’s-pace way through the Gibson Collection I keep finding images that just beg to be posted here on TO. Here’s another black & white slide scan that took a rather large chunk of time to edit, start to finish. It’s a labor of love, I tell ya... ;^)

1a. AT&SF 164 (set?) points an unknown westbound train (#3? #5? #11?) at Topeka, KS. Photo date estimated as Late 1940s.

1b. Original scan before strapping in behind the Photoshop controls for a shade over 5 hours...
Black & white image by William A. Gibson (WAG) Sr.

Thanks for looking back twice!
Lance Garrels (santafe199)
Art Gibson (wag216)

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Very nice! I'm sure that I speak for many here on Trainorders when I say that we all appreciate your labor of love in scanning, fixing and posting these fantastic images! Thanks!

What an incredible difference!  Thanks for posting.  

Could it have been another football game project?  ;-)

-John

Train #3. I rode that train to Garden City where my Aunt and Uncle from Scott City picked me up. wag216

Nice shot and thanks for all you do for us to enjoy some good shots made so much better.

RC Lundgren

Locoinsp Wrote:
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> Very nice! I'm sure that I speak for many here on
> Trainorders when I say that we all appreciate your
> labor of love in scanning, fixing and posting
> these fantastic images! Thanks!

Count me in.  I think the more you work with these old shots the better you get Lance.  That ABBA FT set looks great!

jcaestecker Wrote: > ... another football game project?

Nahhh... This time it was a couple of recorded movies, plue some other stuff... :^)

Lance/199

 

Superb save.
Bob

Great work Lance!

NICE one Lance!!

Larry

Classic scene and great work on the restoration...

JG

Thank you Lance for the post ... really appreciate your dedication to both the original photographers and in preserving their unique scenes ...a really nice job!

Odyssey
Evergreen, CO

Lance, this rates a "Wow!:  Fantastic work - and a fantastic subject.

Lee Hower - Sacramento