When
I get around to going through and sorting out dads
collection by the railroad, and the year(s) shot, I may
write a book or two, however Morning Sun "WILL NOT" get my
business, due to their antiquated ways of cutting the
slide mounts to scan the slide. I know of several
publishers who are "In the 21st century", who have the
ability to scan the slides without even disturbing the
mounts. It will be one of these publishers that will get
my business. Morning Sun can go pound sand.
Thu Apr 19, 2012 6:24 am
(PDT)
Yes! These pictures your father took are some of my
favorites from the entire Morning Sun color series, for just
the reasons Jan says.
What is most valuable to me as a modeler are the excellent
views showing how car roofs weather. It has bothered me for
ages that so little effort is expended accurately
representing that part of a freight car which is most
visible in a model (because we typically view it from above,
so much of the time). And that's because we normally don't
see or photograph real freight cars from that perspective.
Even Mike Spoor's excellent color guide to freight and
passenger cars have very few good images of car roofs. Your
views of the SM16/18 stock car roofs, especially, are
superb. Thanks!
Jonathan
Hi, Andrew!
I don't suppose that you would be able to re-scan some of
the images you posted into extremely hi-res images, could
you? There are quite a few fairly clear shots of vintage
CB&Q boxcars, and I think it would be of interest to the
group if we could repost these in a higher resolution. Let
me know if you need to know how to make these higher
resolution...
Cheers!
Jan