You can hear them talk if you listen......

Anyone who has ever heard the angry staccato exhaust of a mighty "steamer" belching smoke and steam as it laboured on a grade; felt their mournful whistle moan in the distance, or a fast passenger locomotive screaming at a road crossing, can never forget those unmistakable sights and sounds.....

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February 27, 2010

Off To Slow Start







With a lot of the photographs I will be posting there is very little to no background information available to me. My father never left any notes so if anyone who visits this blog can offer some insight to the various locomotives please feel free to comment. These initial four images were captured from his album - there are a number that he developed in his darkroom - actually the basement of our house in Winnipeg. Until I can transfer the many images in the form of negatives some of the initial shots will be somewhat less than optimum quality. From the bottom, Nos. 6051, 3535, 6056 and 6043 have the honor of being the first in what will be part of a growing collection. One area of dismay for many steam enthusiasts is the actual scraping process, sad as it was my father took quite a few pictures in late 1959 and into 1960, most again, are in black and white but a number are on color slide film. I will be adding what I can as time permits.

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