John Barriger, II was appointed by President Roosevelt to the Reconstruction
Finance Board. He was also President of four railroads at different times in
his life. They were the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville much better known
as The Monon Railroad, then the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie followed by The
Missouri-Kansas and Texas Railroad and finally the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific but it was far too late for him to have any effect on the collapse
of the Rock Island.
He took hundreds if not thousands of photographs of lots of railroads as he
traveled over them stopping in a myriad of locations. His photograph
collection boggles my mind.
His son, John Barriger, III was an officer on the Santa Fe Railway where I
met him, introduced to me by the late Harvey Houston who was also interested
in other railroads besides the Santa Fe Railway as was I. We talked about
all manner of things railroad, including the Rio Grande Southern, the
lamented late Rock Island and the constituent parts of railroads that became
Conrail eventually.
John Hodson
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ray
Bedard
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2014 4:18 PM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [CBQ] CB&Q Set of the Barriger Collection
WOW. What great photos. I am sure this will generate a lot of Yahoo
messages.
Who is John Barriger? Is/was he a photographer that shot only CB&Q or other
RR's as well?
Too bad there are no descriptions to identify location, date, etc.
I sure would like to get more info on these photos.
Ray San Jose
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To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: rgortowski@aol.com
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 15:00:04 -0500
Subject: Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Set of the Barriger Collection
Does anyone know if you can buy 8" x 10" prints from the Barriger Library
direct?
Rich G.
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From: jeralbin <jeralbin@aol.com>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sun, Feb 16, 2014 1:34 pm
Subject: [CBQ] CB&Q Set of the Barriger Collection
List: The Barriger Library has now scanned 409 photos of the CB&Q on Flickr.
Prior lists only showed a small number, this may be the complete set now.
http://flic.kr/s/aHsjRv9kDa For us Illinois lads the following may be of
special interest. In no particular order: #74 shows the west end of Clyde on
center track going west. Moline coal is on the right at La Vergne. It also
looks like they are re-ballasting the main line. #77 shows a shoo-fly around
bridge construction at "I THINK", west of Naperville at the Du Page river.
#150 shows vertical "telltails" just before a steel bridge. I've never seen
that before. #424 shows the Oregon Station in like new condition. #362 shows
a very busy Galesburg station and many, many more!.
You can save the photos to a picture file by left clicking a photo. Then
left click to bring up a size box. Click large. Then right click to save the
photo in your picture file. These photos are for home use/study ONLY.
Many of the photos will have to be flipped horizontally and/or vertically
with an image editor because they were scanned wrong. You most likely will
also have the adjust the contrast and shadows to see the details.
For those of you that don't have an image editor, the following link to a
free home use editor and viewer and is excellent.
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm. These photos are guaranteed to
keep old guys busy...Regards..Jerry Albin, Homer Glen, IL
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