Post by espeelover on Dec 6, 2008 2:24:12 GMT -5
I decided to take some surplus trains to Ventura County Fairgrounds this weekend, as there is a big model train expo and swap meet both days. Rather than get a lone table, I partnered on a booth with a buddy so I could display a lot of large scale narrow gauge equipment I need to shed.
Anyway, I notice this guy who has a bunch of old slides for sale and I start looking at them and buy quite a few. He notes I like older freight cars and hands me three small Kodak boxes and says something about miscellaneous freight cars and says give me $15 for all of them. I open one box and the first three things I see tell me to say yes, and then run. I finished setting up and put the slides in my take home box and went to beans.
I get home, where I have some light, and start rummaging through the boxes. In the third and final box of what I thought were all 1963 era freight cars, I see an early Amtrak pic from 1975; then there are a couple of shots of people getting on the train. In between these is sandwiched one slide from March of 1963; I hold it up to my light and nearly faint. I popped it into the scanner and burned it 7200dpi; what appeared on my screen had to be the single best SP lashup in the history of the world.
Most folks would immediatly find a way to make a few bucks with said treasure of rare and awesome delight. But I'm an idiot and I just can't do that; if its SP, if its cool, I gotta share it! So, without to much more patting myself on the back for taking a chance on some old slides, finding one I might have paid the asking price of the entire set for by itself; I bring you my find.
One word of warning, those fans of the Friendly who have any addictions to pre-1965 numbered ALCo Locomotives are warned at the risk of permanent injury or death, not to look any further down this page. I'm not kidding either, this might be too much for some folks to handle. At least you might want to get a few napkins in case you space out like I did and start to drool.
I call this one simply; THE 10...
That is right, a solid set of RSD-12's, and that might be a bit west of Taylor A yard; maybe.
Anyway, I notice this guy who has a bunch of old slides for sale and I start looking at them and buy quite a few. He notes I like older freight cars and hands me three small Kodak boxes and says something about miscellaneous freight cars and says give me $15 for all of them. I open one box and the first three things I see tell me to say yes, and then run. I finished setting up and put the slides in my take home box and went to beans.
I get home, where I have some light, and start rummaging through the boxes. In the third and final box of what I thought were all 1963 era freight cars, I see an early Amtrak pic from 1975; then there are a couple of shots of people getting on the train. In between these is sandwiched one slide from March of 1963; I hold it up to my light and nearly faint. I popped it into the scanner and burned it 7200dpi; what appeared on my screen had to be the single best SP lashup in the history of the world.
Most folks would immediatly find a way to make a few bucks with said treasure of rare and awesome delight. But I'm an idiot and I just can't do that; if its SP, if its cool, I gotta share it! So, without to much more patting myself on the back for taking a chance on some old slides, finding one I might have paid the asking price of the entire set for by itself; I bring you my find.
One word of warning, those fans of the Friendly who have any addictions to pre-1965 numbered ALCo Locomotives are warned at the risk of permanent injury or death, not to look any further down this page. I'm not kidding either, this might be too much for some folks to handle. At least you might want to get a few napkins in case you space out like I did and start to drool.
I call this one simply; THE 10...
That is right, a solid set of RSD-12's, and that might be a bit west of Taylor A yard; maybe.
