Nostalgia & History > Thursday in B&W (vol #1): MILW!

I just threw some spaghetti at the wall, to see if it sticks. In other words I’m proposing a new community series for Thursdays called “Thursday in B&W” (+ subject). That’s black and white, for those of you who were born with a mouse and a keyboard and a digital camera already in your cribs... ;^)

And look out below! This is my 2nd break today from my RR image file tedium. As I ran across these B/W images while updating my MILW folder they looked really good right out of the scanner! I added a minimum of P-shop magic and voilà, here they are. Thursday has never looked so Black! (And White*... ;^)

1. MILW 158 sits back-to-back with...

2. ...MILW 183 at the shared RH facility (with the KCS) at Knoche Yard in Kansas City, MO.
Photo date: February 15, 1980.

Thanks for looking back 4 decades!
Lance Garrels
santafe199

*And the fallen flag subject ain’t too shabby, either... :^)

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Nice B&W images!

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Typical Milwaukee:  Don't go out to swap units around without bringing along an air hose wrench.

-LD

Nice photos and weather.  Great B&W shots!   I wonder how many younger fans can truly appreciate black and white photos like a lot of us older folks do on here.

Very nice.

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY

Nice B&W images Lance. 
John

Brrr. The black and white emphasizes the feeling of cold.
Bob

Spectacular dark/black tonal rendition!
Oliver Barrett

ShoreLineRoute Wrote: > ... dark/black tonal rendition ...

Thank you, sir! I was very pleasantly surprised at how the blizzard-level snow falling virtually hid most of the usual little tiny white hair & dirt speck marks you normally got with a BW neg scan. Especially at 35mm! These 2 images together dressed up in Photoshop in less than 60", where color slides that old average 60-90" each...

Lance/199

Send the snow next week.  We need the moisture.
sd-45
 

Put B&W and snow together in a railroad shot and you can almost feel the cold! Like your idea Lance. Lets see if our friends can move past the Kodachrome mentality.

Bill Rettberg
Bel Air, MD

Roadjob Wrote: > ... Like your idea Lance. Lets see if our friends can  ...........

I thought of you "a time er 2" as I was coming up with this latest thread brainstorm. I'm betting you might have a pretty good stash of stray images you can toss up now & then for "Thursday in B&W". I will be keeping tabs on my posts: "vol #1, vol #2, etc. But that doesn't mean everybody else has to. I just do it to help me keep track of what I've been posting all along (since 2011)...

In about 1978 thru the very early 80s I got a wild hair and thought I needed to be shooting Black & White negs to accompany the regular Kodachrome stuff. Unfortunately I never owned a large or even medium-format camera. So now I have upwards of 200 notebook-sized plastic sleeves of BW 35mm negs that are just too awkward, not to mention time-consuming to scan. And when I was shooting them I never did come up with a reliable method of recording shooting dates & locations. Many of them will correspond to color slides long-settled into my main collection. But there are a significant number that will never know a date or location with 100% cetainty. I had an interesting conversation with former TO member KCCharlie. He tipped me off about an available service where you box up & mail your negs to this address. And they/he will scan them all & burn the images onto CDs for a reasonable sum, and mail them back. Sounds like a "just what the photo-doctor ordered" deal to me. So maybe I'll have an adequate supply of BW stuff to keep Thursday going for a long time...

Lance 

Well its not Mop Thursday in B&W but that's one fine set of photos I was just on those tracks last week we had to get
four CP motors together for the daily CP 475.

Like those shots, Lance!

Sure looks cold.

RC Lundgren

texchief1 Wrote: > ...  Sure looks cold ...

Indeed it was! Especially when the sun went behind this angry snow fluster. And I recall the typical Midwestern humidity being a big factor as well...

Lance/199

Sounds like a fine idea but since Thursday in already "Throwback Thursday" another day such as Tuesday in B&W works for me.

RWJ  - sitting amougst 500 rolls of B&W film negatives :-)