Anybody Here Photograph ("Shoot") Trains?

[Ivo Stunga]

Here are my pics, taken at working and abandoned railroad infrastructure, and museum upkept narrow gauge tracks, made for peat production back then:

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[Milpool]

Check out some of John Sanderson’s portfolios (railroad landscapes, locomotives). Excellent work - though not romance.

For a long time, i had more photo books of trains than anything else.
Just through ... in the usa ... the caboose era. Mid 1980s i guess.

I suppose it makes for a boring shot these days.
All the gorgeous, named, passenger trains are gone. There are only 5 or 6 railroads anymore. The locomotives all look the same, they only get painted one time, then never again.
A lot of the freight is double stack inter-model, so LOTS of squarish hauls

Perhaps much of the "Romance" and aesthetic is gone.?
Steam power made for a lot of great photos

 

[Carnie Bob]

Wow..... there is a dedicated train guy.
Do you have any of his film.?

Hi Chris - that is a very sad story about his film, he had two collections his own and that of another man, over 20 thousand collated images that my wife was destined to inherit
but a greedy mother in law took a tax deduction on the sale of a house when Al died and the film is in a Montreal Museum. My wife is a printer as well as me and she helped her dad print
when she was very young and went to all the train conventions and they sold prints to collectors and those who made model trains as reference. Its an unwritten rule in the house to not talk about it as my wife is a very forgiving woman and let it go, I am sure if with her and her siblings help we could get it back but life is to complicated to add a lawsuit to our lives, There is a book out on his work .

 

[Carnie Bob]

here are two from his collection , I think they are pretty cool

 

[CMoore]

Hi Chris - that is a very sad story about his film, he had two collections his own and that of another man, over 20 thousand collated images that my wife was destined to inherit
but a greedy mother in law took a tax deduction on the sale of a house when Al died and the film is in a Montreal Museum. My wife is a printer as well as me and she helped her dad print
when she was very young and went to all the train conventions and they sold prints to collectors and those who made model trains as reference. Its an unwritten rule in the house to not talk about it as my wife is a very forgiving woman and let it go, I am sure if with her and her siblings help we could get it back but life is to complicated to add a lawsuit to our lives, There is a book out on his work .

Oh Wow .....
Sorry to hear that.

Although, when i first started to read your post, i thought for sure it was going to be some awful story about all of the Film/Negs being tossed out.

Thanks for sharing his life and photos

 

[MattKing]

Bob,
Perhaps, if your wife and you reached out to the museum, they would be happy to share in a printing project. Given the shared history, it sounds like a great theme for a museum show.

 

[Carnie Bob]

Bob,
Perhaps, if your wife and you reached out to the museum, they would be happy to share in a printing project. Given the shared history, it sounds like a great theme for a museum show.

They were very cold with me when I approached them, the way they obtained the collection was very shady, I am the last person they want to work with, but funny we are one of the only photo labs in Canada that knows how to properly preserve the collection. I am connected with the equipment, and galleries to show the work.
Al originally wanted Laura and I to manage it, but over a very short period of time , almost remarkable period he got dementia, then died , then the house was sold and then we found out the Museum had the collection and step mother and law had the tax receipt and we never heard from her again. You can't make this shit up.

 

[Ivo Stunga]

They were very cold with me when I approached them, the way they obtained the collection was very shady

Same experience and attitude was echoed by Boneyard Alaska. Museums can be and often are compelete d-heads/thieves.

Boneyard Alaska

An Alaskan gold miner is unearthing a treasure trove of perfectly-preserved bones, tens of thousands of years old.

boneyardalaska.com

 

[MattKing]

Find out who the major donors are for the museum, and go talk to them .

 

[Carnie Bob]

Find out who the major donors are for the museum, and go talk to them .

not enough time in my life to go after this.