Nostalgia & History > Thirty Thursday - The Old Reliable

Offered for your consideration are these two shots of Louisville & Nashville GP30 1061 at Mt Vernon Illinois, 18 Jun 81. Q-GP30 and I were on a road trip to see the Crab Orchard & Egyptian steam operations in nearby Marion Illinois. Offered a tour of the Precision National Shops arranged by family friends Alta Jane & Joe Haydon (former residents of our home town Palmyra Missouri), we naturally stopped off in Mt Vernon.

I was armed with a Konica FS1 and Kodachrome 64 ... I learned the lesson of using a cheap film developer on this trip, never to be repeated again. Thanks to photoshop elements, these shots that should have been tossed long ago are somewhat presentable.

Regards,
Burlington John

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Looks as if it may have had a rear mounted gyralight. Cool!

Al Seever
Phoenix, AZ