Can anyone help with this query? If so, please include Gerald's address of
tlin@pngusa.net in your reply.
(And it's not the photo in the BRHS Calendar for November 1999 - already tried
that)
Thanks
Rupert
PART 1
"Your site came up in my search for information on a photograph taken in the
1930s at the West Hinsdale, Illinois depot of 2 Zephyrs, called "Double
Zephyrs." They are on the westbound and center of the three tracks. The photo
was taken from a signal bridge, now shown, looking east, toward Chicago. I
would like to get a copy of the photo. I do not know where to go to find it.
The photo appears in Robert Hughes, American Visions: An Epic History of Art in
America (New York: Knopf, 1997), p. 460, with credit to ARCHIVE PHOTOS. I
found nothing there.
As a child I lived near the West Hinsdale depot, played there and had a
romantic interest in zephyrs as I watched them go by, and actually took the
California Zephyr to Oakland in 1949. So my interest in the photo is nostalgic
and personal.
I do not want to presume on your time; any suggestions you can offer in my
pursuit is appreciated.
Gerald Ghelfi
PART 2
Thank you for your reply. No, this is not the photo I am looking for. The one
I want shows the West Hinsdale station to the right. It does not show the
signal bridge from where I am sure the picture was taken; I said "now shown" in
my initial message instead of "not shown".
The two engines are quite different; the one on the right has windows, the one
on the left does not; it has a logo I cannot read. I do not know zephyrs well
enough to suggest engine numbers, although I have been doing some reading on
zephyr history.
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