[CBQ] Life Magazine images from Google

["Rupert & Maureen" <gamlenz@ihug.co.nz>]

This post was on the Steam Freight Car List.  I searched on "Burlington & 
Quincy" and up came an engraving advertising a Q dining car experience east 
of Omaha.  I'll leave you to search the rest.

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ


> Google Images has started hosting a collection of images from Life 
> Magazine.
> Search <http://images.google.com/> (not "regular" Google...) and add
> "source:life" after your search...
>
> A few obvious ones:
> freight car:
> <<http://images.google.com/images?q=freight+car+source:life>http://images.google.com/images?q=freight+car+source:life>
> railroad yard:
> <http://images.google.com/images?&hl=en&q=railroad+yard+source:life>
> railroad: <http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=railroad+source:life>
> trains: <http://images.google.com/images?&hl=en&q=trains+source:life>
>
> Steam-era:
> MILW SS box:
> <<http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?q=freight+car+source:life&imgurl=ebdddd77c81dc342>http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=ebdddd77c81dc342>
> NYC flat:
> <http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=1d6164d3ff8dc173>
> with <<BIG>> propeller
> LAPX XT:
> <<http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=9353e0ef0c165fa5>http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=9353e0ef0c165fa5>
> with door open to tank, and Duryea Underframe
>
> late Steam-era:
> RDG Hopper: 
> <http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=bfb12b966f086f6e>
> NH Yard:  <http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=d4c6d3d0edf667da>
> CNW LOs: <http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=d590012eafe91cad>
>
>
> There are also a number of RR herald close-ups... and two-half-car
> photos (coupled together)...
>
> Note that clicking on the "View full size" link at lower right leads
> to a 1280 x 850+ image...
>
>
> --------------------
> Richard Brennan - San Leandro CA
> -------------------- 


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