Post by espeelover on May 8, 2008 15:59:56 GMT -5
Once upon a time, I was up in God's Country (Tehachapi Pass), waiting a glimpse of the Royal Hudson. What did I know, I thought I was going to see a real steam engine on a mainline RR for the first time, not some giant statue being pushed by diesels. While awaiting the coming biggest disappointment of my young life (at least to that point); I met a family of railfans who were about to change my life.
I won't bore you with all the intervening years of fun and learning we had together, but I use this as an introduction to the following photographs. The patriarch of this family was Gerald Docken, he passed about ten years ago, but I still fondly remember the times we shared running trains or talking about how things work.
Shortly before he passed away, Gerry gave me an old envelope of B&W prints; I think he said that he had taken them when he was on a private tour at Taylor....somebody he knew from DWP hooked him up I think. Anyways, he wanted me to have them, since I was into SP so much, he figured I was their best bet to be preserved and shared. I guess he was right, again; so now, I present these here for your enjoyment and possible modeling help. Enjoy!
AFAIK, these are all he had; I just found them in that cigar box where I had a bunch of miscelaneous SP stuff, just sitting on a shelf. Now they are on the web where I hope they can be appreciated by SP fans everywhere.
There you go Gerry, I finally kept my promise and got these out to the world.
I won't bore you with all the intervening years of fun and learning we had together, but I use this as an introduction to the following photographs. The patriarch of this family was Gerald Docken, he passed about ten years ago, but I still fondly remember the times we shared running trains or talking about how things work.
Shortly before he passed away, Gerry gave me an old envelope of B&W prints; I think he said that he had taken them when he was on a private tour at Taylor....somebody he knew from DWP hooked him up I think. Anyways, he wanted me to have them, since I was into SP so much, he figured I was their best bet to be preserved and shared. I guess he was right, again; so now, I present these here for your enjoyment and possible modeling help. Enjoy!
AFAIK, these are all he had; I just found them in that cigar box where I had a bunch of miscelaneous SP stuff, just sitting on a shelf. Now they are on the web where I hope they can be appreciated by SP fans everywhere.
There you go Gerry, I finally kept my promise and got these out to the world.
Seriously, I have been a lurker since I joined a year ago, because of the hassle to place pics here. But since I have begun to save some of my images online, the main stumbling block has now been resolved. I have put off getting a slide scanner, because I can not figure out which one to get. I need to resolve that issue, but you just can't walk into a store and find a selection of such things. Online sources have lousy info usually, making it hard to tell the difference between like models. Any hands on reccomendations from the group? It will be rewarded by lots of new and nifty images.