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Phil Raynes · **Posted:** Wed Feb 06, 2013 1:43 am

Me back in 1982 on my favorite vehicle (Joel Salomon photo):

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Me on the left in 2002 reenacting the first ET&WNC train through Doe River Gorge in 1882:

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Charlie · **Posted:** Wed Feb 06, 2013 2:25 am

I gotta ask about that last photo, what was everyone looking at off to the side? I'm thinking either a bunch of skinnydippin' gals or somebody fell out of a tree while trying to get the ultimate shot.

omar · **Posted:** Wed Feb 06, 2013 10:39 am

http://www.rypn.org/forums/download/file.php?id=4921

C. Edwards wrote:

Scary to think that my face has been breaking railfan cameras for 20 years...

Looks Like Bill Sample at the right CVRM/RMNE/NAUG
&
Rick A (NH RR modeler) at left.

C. Edwards · **Joined:** Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:56 am **Posts:** 55

That would be correct Omar. Bill was my engineer, and Rick was actually the brakeman/trainee.

wilkinsd · **Posted:** Wed Feb 06, 2013 1:51 pm

Alexander D. Mitchell IV wrote:

I decided I needed to make a subtle change to my wife's artwork to make me more recognizable to RyPN readers who might see me trackside in a "Rule G" environment. Look carefully. That took me long enough; I'll wait for my wife to try to change the mug to a Nikon D40X with pro grip case.....

Figured the belt buckle would be one for 4876.

YeOldeEnjine · **Joined:** Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:31 pm **Posts:** 329

Fireman on the G5 sisters 1238 and 1286 during their brief stay in Cumberland, MD.

Just add a lot of gray to the hair, nothing else has changed.

Ron Goldfeder · **Posted:** Wed Feb 06, 2013 6:13 pm

About to leave the Tennessee Valley RR Museum in Chattanooga for Knoxville with Southern #630 on Nov 8, 2011.

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6468

Ron -

Great hat!!

Les

Jim Lundquist · **Posted:** Wed Feb 06, 2013 7:27 pm

Jim Lundquist
Director of Museum Services
Pacific Southwest Railway Museum
Campo (San Diego County), CA

joe6167 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 06, 2013 7:54 pm

Infringing upon some Warner Bros copyright or other in the smokebox of CNR 6167, April 19, 2008

whippany · **Joined:** Mon Jun 04, 2007 10:23 am **Posts:** 44

A shot of me with Morris County Central 4039 (Newfoundland, NJ) in 1980, and a fast forward to 30 years later with a photo of my wife & I at the Whippany Railway Museum, Whippany, NJ.

Phil Raynes · **Posted:** Wed Feb 06, 2013 10:44 pm

In answer to the question of what we were looking at, we were looking across the gorge to "Pardee Point", named after Ario Pardee, CEO of the board of both the EBT and ET&WNC during their early years. We did so to copy the poses of the first photo (see below) in 1882. Those of you with sharp vision will notice the "lawn jockey" posed on the pilot of the locomotive. To this day, we have NO idea what that was about!!! A bigger view will be found at this location: http://www.johnsonsdepot.com/crumley/tour2.htm

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Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Wed Feb 06, 2013 10:56 pm

wilkinsd wrote:

Figured the belt buckle would be one for 4876.

But nobody's made a fundraiser set of belt buckles for 4876 using brass from journal bearings that had to be replaced, like they did for 1361. (I got one of the prototypes.)

p51 · **Posted:** Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:35 am

Here I am with ET&WNC # 12 at Tweetsie RR a couple of years ago:

And with a few other forms on transportation I'm also quite fond of (the Jeep is a mine, a 1944 Willys MB)

weekendrailroader · **Joined:** Wed Mar 31, 2010 12:02 am **Posts:** 293

Oh, why not. I'm considering ditching the pseudonym eventually anyways (though it does have a nice ring to it, doesn't it?)

--Drew Black

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