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October 11, 2015
Hol - Here's the "last image" probably ever taken of Class M-4-A No. 6310
as it waited else where in line with a number of GTW steam locomotives to be
scrapped at NWS&W in Sterling, IL, during July 1963. This is not a very good
image, but taking a photograph of a dark steam engine while shooting
more-or-less into the sun was always difficult, even with Tri-X film that I used
during the era. Many locomotive there couldn't even be photographed at they were
all shoved into, as I remember, a long siding three tracks wide
leading to the cutting area close to the mill furnaces. Whereas it was possible
to photograph the locomotives on the outer tracks if the sun was right, the
locomotives on the middle track were too obscured. As I recall now,
NWS&W, even in the bright sunlight, was still a dreary, sad place to be what
with all the dead Q and GTW rusty steam locomotives there waiting to be
cut-up. Even the live ex-GTW 0-8-0's switching the mill and shoving there
sisters up to the cutting field didn't brighten-up the day. Best Regards -
Louis
Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhhope,
AL
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