Eastern Railroad Discussion > Saturday's West Chester Photo Freight

The West Chester Railroad ran a photo freight Saturday with ex B&O Geep 6499 in charge. The advertised MLW was sidelined with generator problems so the EMD did the honors all day. An impromptu night photo session was held afterwards and a good time was had by all. The first two images were taken at Cheney and the last in West Chester. Lighting by John Gabriel.

Enjoy !

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Very nice photos with the exception of number two.  Whoever owns that truck, you ruined it by putting modern wheels on it.  If you have the original wheels, put them back on to make the photo look like it was from the past.
John in White Marsh, Maryland

Great photos.  I like the reflection of the Pennsy road name from the B60 baggage car in the water puddle.

ClubCar Wrote:
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> Very nice photos with the exception of number
> two.  Whoever owns that truck, you ruined it by
> putting modern wheels on it.  If you have the
> original wheels, put them back on to make the
> photo look like it was from the past.
> John in White Marsh, Maryland

I like photo number two - though I can appreciate
ClubCar's point - at the SAME TIME!  On the other
hand, the posed car shots look just that - posed.

Nice shots, Gary - might have come along had I
known about either event - Middletown & Hummelsville
or this one.  Was this a Facebook only posted event?

/Mitch
 

Are those Chevys a '54 and '51?  Or am I losing more memory?

Why are the men holding lanterns in broad daylight?

RGTower Wrote:
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> Why are the men holding lanterns in broad
> daylight?

So they don't get wet!

/Mitch

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I am always amazed at how restored autos are presented. They unfailingly look twice as good as they did in real use. I owned a 1970 Boss 302 Mustang (Yes, sometimes and only sometimes I wish I still owned it, (PITA maintenance intensive but a beast!). Point is this, I bought it, drove it and eventually sold it twelve years later. It needed a new floor due to rust, and many other repairs. It had a fresh blue printed and balanced engine (wish I had that done when I first bought it, holy cow, so much more power!) but the transmission still had a crunchy syncro in 2nd. But then leaded gas went away and pffttt. I sold it for twice what I paid for it and the new owner spent $20K in Eighties dollars and had it totally restored. And yes,unfailingly it looked twice as good as it did, right off the new car lot and in real use. 
OK back to railroad, since SEPTA rebuilt the Crum creek Trastle, If I reacll correctly, have they restored a live connection to the outside world or are they still cut off as an island of railroad antiquity?
Gonut

Unfortunately, you can't please everyone. Nice bunch.
JB

Ilike the old truck,Lots of the times the old wheels are beyond repair,He didnt restore his truck for a picture with a train,I think the Wheels look Great

Hmmm .... And in photo one, what about replacing the other main and the catenary, too ...  ha ha ha.

Fun train mixed train. Nice to see a tuscan red B60 in on the move. I've only seen them faded jade green, plinthed in company service.

* JB *

ClubCar Wrote:
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> Very nice photos with the exception of number
> two.  Whoever owns that truck, you ruined it by
> putting modern wheels on it.  If you have the
> original wheels, put them back on to make the
> photo look like it was from the past.
> John in White Marsh, Maryland