1960's Fantrip Photos

tomgears · **Posted:** Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:22 pm

Someone sent me this link with a lot of great photos by Ron Wright of fan trips in the 1960's. If you click through them you will find photos of a lot of old favorites there.

http://www.rwrightrr.com/34_Steam%20Fan ... index.html

Richard Glueck · **Posted:** Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:41 pm

A feast of memories of a greater age. Thanks!

J3a-614 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:12 am

Glanced through some of the shots, and I have to concur with Mr. Glueck. Ross ought to check them out; 759 is there, along with shots of the first High Iron trips with Strasburg 90 and a Steamtown ex-CP G5. And there is the bittersweet, too, in the form of GTW 5629. . .

tomgears · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:50 am

I am a big fan of the 1286 and 1238. Those girls have really gotten around.

co614 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:06 am

Great memories!!

Ross Rowland

daylight4449 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:21 am

tomgears wrote:

I am a big fan of the 1286 and 1238. Those girls have really gotten around.

The G5s in general are very interesting. I find the lines of them reminiscent of some designs of British locomotives. Personally, I can't help but be a fan of the 1246 (currently at RMNE) for two reasons:
1) The largest steam locomotive I've seen so far in my lifetime. Now that was one amazing trip! If only EMS showed some urgency...
2) Dennis Lebeau, mentor of mine and Historical Commissioner for the town of East Brookfield, fired the 1246 while Steamtown was still in Vermont. I know it's not as glamerous as being on the throttle, but I envy him just because he got the experience. Now all I need to do is drag him to Thomaston so he can see it again, even if only a passing glance.

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6482

J3a-614 wrote:

And there is the bittersweet, too, in the form of GTW 5629. . .

And LA&L 17.

Steve Singer · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2012 11:05 am

Fond memories of the G5s. As a child in Harrisburg, my dad used to take me to York when they were on the Ma & Pa.

Howard P. · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2012 11:49 am

Many of those photos were like a replay of my late teens and early/mid twenties. And I think I stood in a few of those same spots at the same instant.

The photos look like they came from a large format camera, perhaps a 4x5 Graphic. Does anyone know the photographer, or does he visit this site?

Howard P.
Dark Slide, NY

Stephen Hussar · **Posted:** Wed Jan 18, 2012 8:08 am

ahhh...film.

Stephen

Richard Glueck · **Posted:** Wed Jan 18, 2012 9:46 am

ahhh....Kodak.

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Wed Jan 18, 2012 9:54 am

ahhhh...... digital transmission of digitally converted images so that they can be shared with lots of others around the nation and world at little to no cost.......

What? What are YOU snarking at??? Did I not just speak the truth, via digital transmission of typing????

Ed Kapuscinski · **Posted:** Wed Jan 18, 2012 11:46 am

Having been born in 1982, I simply cannot believe that some of those things occurred.

Double headed steam on the NEC? That's gotta be a photoshop job...

Unreal.

I love the one of Strasburg's 90 in Bethlehem. Wow.

Howard P. · **Posted:** Wed Jan 18, 2012 12:50 pm

Oh, fear not Ed, it ALL happened. And more, too, just not all of it was photographed!

Howard P.
Time Tunnel, NY

tomgears · **Posted:** Wed Jan 18, 2012 1:02 pm

It was a different time, even up through the 80's. There were still old steam men working on the railroads. The insurance companies were not running things so much. Railroaders did not think a solid bearing was a sure fire train wreck waiting to happen. There was still a decent passenger train infrastructure in place.