Re: [CBQ] Re: 4th main in Barriger library ?

["Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Archie, Leo and Group:

The Mercantile Library also has the photo albums put together by Barriger of virtually all his photos, and they include a small contact print with typewritten identification of the location and date and other pertinent information.  We, as members of one particular railroad group, have spent a great deal of time trying -- not always successfully -- to identify the photos so graciously posted online, and all the while the information we seek is in the photo albums at the library.  It was a monumental task to scan all the Barriger negatives and post them, and it will be an even greater task to either scan or key in the identifying information for each photo and match it to the proper image online.  But it is a task that definitely needs to be undertaken, as the value of the photos as they now exist online is greatly diminished by the lack of location and date information.  And a great deal of erroneous information is gaining a foothold as individuals make guesses, educated and otherwise, about dates and locations of these wonderful photos.

Hol

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From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> on behalf of archie hayden klinerarch@charter.net [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, July 4, 2016 7:48 AM
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Subject: [CBQ] Re: 4th main in Barriger library ?

 

 

Leo and group, I too have spent many hours studying these fine photos which I discovered over 30 years ago at the Mercantile Library in St Louis. Many times his photos are shown in station order on a certain segment of trackage. This is not to say all stations on a line are pictured, but the the order they appear in are probably the same order they were shot. For instance one can follow his trip down the K Line and see the sequence of locations that are in the collection. So, Leo what are the photos on each side of this 4th Main? This might hold a clue. Archie

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Posted by: Hol Wagner <holpennywagner@msn.com>

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