Nostalgia & History > Your Choice - NYC 4032

Square or horizontal? It's your choice. It is the first month of Penn Central, but it still looks like a New York Central world in this photo.
NYC 4032 heads a westbound passenger train through Painesville, Ohio on the weekend of February 24-25, 1968.
Bob



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/20/18 16:08 by refarkas.

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Both are good. The first one shows more of the adjacent freight cars while the second gets rid of the pole.

KG

they both show us different things

I like photo 1 best. I see the pole or other things people might not like, but with this photo being 50 years old, I just love loooking at the photo in general. So much history.

"Wow" to both!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/17/18 05:19 by rev66vette.

Any NYC photo is a good, no great photo!

I like the second one the best. It's often best to crop in closer to your main subject. The second shot still has about 90% if the subject matter. The wooden cabooses were likely to be burned soon.

Victor A. Baird
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/17/18 07:39 by wabash2800.

Both are arguably keepers but i prefer the second ( horizontal ) one. Less sky and more subject.

Both are great action photos. If I have to make a pick, it would be Photo 2 by a very close margin because
I really dislike losing the prominence of the code lines on the right and the ballast car on the left in Photo 1.
Thanks for posting.
ALLEN

My first thought upon seeing the photos was why are diesels scooping water? DUH!!! Obviously a cold winter or spring day with some loose steam connections between the locomotives and cars.

Neat photos, both. I did not know wooden NYC waycars lasted that long. And the train looks like it has at least a 4th unit or maybe more? Was this a mail train? Just curious, I was in Vietnam at the time and could not enjoy such sights. By late October I was working for PC.

It's likely a mail train as I remember E7s still in NYC garb on those trains as late as 1972. As I said before, the wooden cabooses likely had been on the way to be burned. It looks like one has been wrecked.

Victor A. Baird
http:/www.erstwhilepublications.com

JLinDE Wrote:
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> Neat photos, both. I did not know wooden NYC
> waycars lasted that long. And the train looks like
> it has at least a 4th unit or maybe more? Was this
> a mail train? Just curious, I was in Vietnam at
> the time and could not enjoy such sights. By late
> October I was working for PC.