Hardly any road grime on her! A little on the trucks and a smidgen on the bottom of the fuel tank. Great photo!
I sometimes wonder why they bother painting them, when they don't bother to wash or otherwise maintain those exteriors.
Hemi: Kwel! Have not seen that paint job on the lead coming/going through Libby. Will have to get down and watch for that every once-in-awhile. Soon to be light when the Eastbound gets in. Westbound still dark - dang. Oh, and that is a dang BIG puddle! Later
Todd, Most of North Dakota is a puddle! We call them sloughs. Hard to beat this FB group for info on the EB. Many folks will post same day photos, so you'll know when/if a special locomotive is headed west or east. https://www.facebook.com/groups/AmtraksEmpireBuilder/
I came across a Kodachrome artifact in a closet this past weekend. As it was never used, I wonder if I can return it to K-Mart for a refund?
Does K-Mart even exist as a store any more? My local one closed like 3 years ago. Neat find, at any rate!
A quick Google search shows there may only be three remaining in the USA. Down from 2486 at their height of doing business. Wow!
If there's a K-Mart museum, you probably could get more just for the bag! That's almost an antique! There was no more mail-in processing as of this month back in 2009. Try the Smithsonian...
Following Kodak's exit from Kodachrome processing, a company in Kansas called Dwayne's Photo carried on for several more years with it and I used them to process the last of my rolls. Finally, with the film itself long since out of production, Dwayne's closed out the service. Dwayne's is still going strong though, processing all sorts of other obsolete and current formats. I saw this tee shirt on their website. BTW, Paul Simon's Kodachrome is 50 years old this year. They give us those nice bright colors They give us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's A sunny day, oh yeah
Some of my last film (slides) was processed by that firm. To say the very least, I was not impressed.
Exactly! With no more Kodachrome and not much liking the results of Ektachrome and Fujichrome, I quit railfan photography altogether for a number of years. At that time, digital cameras were too expensive for me and not all that impressive to my eyes.
I started using Seattle Film Works for a while. They gave you both prints with their negatives and slides. They provided you with 35mm cans with some split 80mm movie film that had new sprocket holes punched in both sides. Was nowhere near as nice as Kodachrome but I put up with it. Then I just got lazy and shot crappy print film. But I was still out there shooting trains. This was shot with Seattle Film Works. And this was print film.
Here are some more shots from my "Roof Top Adventure" at the Galveston Railroad Museum in January 1998. The former Gulf Colorado & Santa Fe headquarters building was part of the Galveston Union Station. The GC&SF was finally fully merged into the ATSF in 1965. Steve taking photos of roof details on a Santa Fe business car.
KCS SD70ACe 4055 with CP K38 splits 2nd Street in Bellevue, IA. April 12, 2023. April 14th begins a new era with CPKC. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
