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Post by espeelover on May 21, 2008 20:21:46 GMT -5
      [glow=red,2,800] Howdy, I figured since I was able to finally decide on a slide scanner, and finally have it delivered;
I might as well begin someplace, so I grabbed a 'sluff box' off the shelf. Sluff were photos of interest
but with issues, like dirt or other issues that I did not wish to discard, hoping someday that technology
might catch up to my short comings as a photographer; it finally has.
This slide was taken while the train was moving, and I was accidently on 250th/sec. Photoshop not only
reduced the blur, it got rid of all the debris that had accumulated since 1980, sitting in an open box, but
inside an old wooden drawer.
Geee, can anybody guess where I took this pic at, in September of 1980?[/glow]  [glow=red,2,700] SP 401542 w/yellow lettering and no sign of a herald.[/glow]  |
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Post by espeelover on May 21, 2008 23:43:44 GMT -5
Well, there were reporting marks and data stenciled at least, but this is the plainest SP LO I have seen to date. I'm thinking somebody wrecked one of the friendy's, and gave this to SP in trade; I guess that makes sense.  Photo taken at Walong CA, in or about May of 1980. |
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Post by espeelover on May 22, 2008 1:15:07 GMT -5
This time, I see white painted stenciling under the consolidation stencils. This paint scheme is not supposed to exist, or so I have been told, but I bumped into it many times before ever photographing one of these cars. This one was sheer luck, but you can see several anomalies: White herald background, later black "skeleton-ized" herald, plus all the white stencil showing from under the gray paint. The big task will be trying to model this car, and all of its weathered features in HO scale!  SP 400341 taken in 1978. Here is the same car, just the other side about a year later.  |
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Post by espeelover on May 22, 2008 13:19:25 GMT -5
While no longer new looking, but a youngster compared to the PS and ACF rib sided versions, SP 490326 passes my location on its way to Bealville in late December 1979.  |
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Post by espeelover on May 24, 2008 19:42:51 GMT -5
 Taken January 1980. |
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Post by thespcaboose on May 24, 2008 23:27:22 GMT -5
Nice shots of the covered hoppers.
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Post by espeelover on Jul 25, 2008 5:28:58 GMT -5
Yet another of my favorite type of car.
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Post by thespcaboose on Jul 25, 2008 12:22:23 GMT -5
This hopper #400658 has seen a lot of service!
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Post by espeelover on Aug 16, 2008 23:00:27 GMT -5
I like this kind of weathering; the lack of grafitti ain't bad neither!   Taken 9/17/1980 at Walong.
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Post by thespcaboose on Aug 21, 2008 18:16:41 GMT -5
Good shot of the BLCS1005; the SP covered hopper.
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Post by espeelover on Sept 5, 2008 16:07:03 GMT -5
 Taken in Mojave CA, May of 1980. |
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Post by espeelover on Sept 5, 2008 16:13:05 GMT -5
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Post by espeelover on Sept 5, 2008 16:13:55 GMT -5
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Post by espeelover on Sept 5, 2008 18:06:29 GMT -5
Red lettering, with small red herald; a better lit version.  This one in not an SP car, but you can't model SP around Mojave without a few of these bad boys. Both taken at Woodford in September of 1980.
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Post by espeelover on Sept 8, 2008 17:23:02 GMT -5
 [glow=red,2,800] Taken at Taylor yard in June of 1980.[/glow] |
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