Trains on this day in the past:

[Charlie B]

Helpers at North Pleasant Drive, East Palestine, Ohio, March, 1977     
Charlie

[Charlie B]

March, 1977. Midland, Pa. Crucible Steel in the background.  The plant would be shut down in 1982. It was purchased By J&L steel in 1983 and limited operations were begun. The plant is now owned by ATI.     
Charlie

[Charlie B]

A telephoto shot of an eastbound. 3/17/2016, East Palestine, Ohio.     
Charlie

[bdw9535]

Southern RR of NJ's U18B at Winslow, NJ, 3/17/11.

Bruce

   

[Charlie B]

Heading west led by an ALCO C425. New Waterford, Ohio. 3/17/1978    
Charlie

[cn nutbar]

2/18/2020---CN Stuart yard

   

[jim currie]

Charlie how do you get your photos so crisp and clean looking I never have been able to get them that way with digital cam.
Jim

[Charlie B]

Charlie how do you get your photos so crisp and clean looking I never have been able to get them that way with digital cam.
Jim

The picture above is a scan from a Kodachrome slide. I scanned my slides at 3600 dpi on a flat bed scanner, then I use photoshop elements to remove the haze and sharpen the contrast. I also find most photos scanned or taken with a digital camera to have too much blue so I cut the blue level about 10 percent. That sometimes makes the yellow too much so using the saturation I cut back the yellow.  Some times I have to increase the saturation for all colors. PSE 20 has a command to automatically remove haze I use it on every picture I work on. If it doesn't improve it, I undo it and use other steps. Send me one of yours and I will see if I can improve it and if I can I will tell you exactly what I did.  I am not a pro by any means but I have been doing this for 25 years now. 

Charlie

[cn nutbar]

3/19/2020---eastbound through Bayview Junction

   

   

[Charlie B]

3/19/1978 East Palestine, Ohio.  The buildings on the north side belong to Neil Motors Dodge. I was working for Neil Motors Ford at this time, same man and he was an honest man.  The dealerships were closed after he died and I got lucky and got hired as an operator hat a new hydroelectric plant.     
Charlie

[bdw9535]

Southern RR of NJ at Winslow, NJ, 3/19/14.

Bruce

   

[Charlie B]

March, 1981. New Castle, Pa.  The P&LE cars in the background are on P&LE tracks.     
Charlie

[bdw9535]

Winslow, NJ, March 1994

Bruce

   

[tompm]

I would have loved see those locos Bruce. I am still trying to find them in HO in that scheme.

[bdw9535]

Tom, they are now at Steamtown in Scranton, Pa, and have been repainted into the Lackawanna paint scheme.  I have a foobie set of them done by Athearn/Roundhouse.  They are F7's instead of the F3's.

Bruce