Neat paintings or classic photos you might have saved

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Re: Neat paintings or classic photos you might have saved

Unread postby buzz456 » Mon Jun 15, 2020 10:01 am

Classic Chicago. !!*ok*!!
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Re: Neat paintings or classic photos you might have saved

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Re: Neat paintings or classic photos you might have saved

Unread postby mindenjohn » Sun Jul 12, 2020 12:54 pm

Still in use Buzz. It is Padgate Station, Warrington in the North West of England roughly mid way between Liverpool and Manchester on the original Inter-City line of 1830 (although they have done some work in the area since then!).
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Re: Neat paintings or classic photos you might have saved

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Final run of steam passenger service on the Maine Central.

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Re: Neat paintings or classic photos you might have saved

Unread postby mindenjohn » Thu Jul 30, 2020 8:35 am

Always a sad occasion. I always wonder if half of the folks that turn out on these occasions had actually used the service how much longer it may have run.
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Re: Neat paintings or classic photos you might have saved

Unread postby buzz456 » Thu Jul 30, 2020 6:36 pm

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While poking around for the GM&O boxcar paint job I ran across this. Pretty neat.
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Re: Neat paintings or classic photos you might have saved

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Old photos from the G&W in its humble beginnings as a class 3 in New York before it turned into an empire
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Re: Neat paintings or classic photos you might have saved

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Re: Neat paintings or classic photos you might have saved

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Re: Neat paintings or classic photos you might have saved

Unread postby buzz456 » Sun Aug 09, 2020 6:35 pm

LaCrosse WI sometime in the thirties. New tracks were put in in 1940 so the train no longer went down the street.
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Re: Neat paintings or classic photos you might have saved

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