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ry edition of the calendar of the East Penn Traction Club. The color cover shows a SEPTA N-5 car on the Norristown High Speed Line. The 13 black & white photos inside, mostly from Pennsylvania, include double-ended streetcars meeting on Philadel- phia’s Route 59 in 1948; a Wilkes-Barre Tran- sit snow sweeper, also in 1948; a trolley and an elevated car on side-by-side bridges over Philadelphia’s Market Street in 1907; an Os- good-Bradley streetcar on Lackawanna Ave- nue operating for Scranton Transit in 1948; a pair of Lehigh Valley Transit lightweight cars passing in 1948; a Hagerstown & Frederick freight motor waiting on the Western Mary- land interchange at Thurmont, Md., in 1950; a Philadelphia Transportation Co. Brill car in a bucolic setting; a pre-PCC streamlined car of Capital Transit posing in front of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., on a 1960 fan- trip; a Lehigh Valley Transit center-entrance car in Allentown in 1951; a Philadelphia Suburban Transportation car in the street in West Chester; a PTC PCC in Philadelphia in 1956; a PST Jewett car at 69th Street in Up- per Darby; and a Conestoga Transportation Co. Birney safety car in Lancaster in 1945. The calendar folds out to 11"×16" and costs $10.00 plus $2.00 shipping from East Penn Traction Club, c/o Charles Long, 227 Locust Road, Fort Washington, PA 19034. The Bridge Line Historical Society 2016 Calendar includes 13 scenes of the Delaware & Hudson Railway, starting with a color cov- er of Baldwin Shark No. 1216 at the Colonie, N.Y., shops. Inside photos (most in color, with some vintage b&w) include a U23B and a pair of C628s near Binghamton, N.Y., in 1975; a GP39-2 passing under Starrucca Viaduct at Lanesboro, Pa., in 1976; a portrait of D&H No. 463 at Mechanicville, N.Y., in 1980; the D&H engine house at Nineveh, N.Y., in 1917; the Avoca, Pa., station in 1917; the sand house at Delanson, N.Y., in 1918; a D&H freight passing beneath an Erie Lackawan- na freight at Starrucca Viaduct in 1972; an RS11 at NE Tower in Binghamton; a pair of U33Cs leading a freight out of Binghamton; the Laurentian in 1953 at West Waterford, N.Y.; brand new GP39-2 No. 7609; and a b&w view of an RS3 at Cambridge, N.Y. The cal- endar folds out to 11"×16" and costs $15.00 plus $2.50 shipping from BLHS Publications Office, 2476 Whitehall Court, Niskayuna, NY 12309. Orders should include contact infor- mation including email address, home ad- dress, and phone number.
Photo CDs
Burlington Northern Alco Locomotives Pho- to CD, Southern Pacifi c Caboose Photo CD, and Western Pacifi c GP35/GP40/GP40-2 Photo CD from Peter Arnold;
www.rrimages.net or email
p.arnold4853@
gmail.com for details; BN and WP disks are $19.95 each, SP caboose
disk is $34.95.
This series of photo CDs loaded with excellent color photos of Burling- ton Northern, Southern Pacific, and Western Pacific motive power, rolling stock, and ca-
booses, has been around for a few years but has only just recently crossed our desk for review. Created as a labor of love by one of the many “mom and pop” businesses in our railfan community, most of us have never had the pleasure of seeing these disks before. And that’s a shame because they really are quite good and a veritable bargain as well. I’ve been collecting these types of photo CDs
for several years now and I only wish more people would discover their advantages. For the price of just one or two slides you might win on eBay you can get 170-289 photos on a disk that you can print out, enlarge, or enjoy a “slide show on disk” with. Tell me where else you’re going to find almost 300 high quality shots of Southern Pacific, Cotton Belt, Pacific Electric, Northwestern Pacific, and San Di- ego & Arizona Eastern cabooses, all from the 1950s through the 1980s, for the price? If you said “nowhere” you would be correct. If SP and company had a model of caboose during this era, it’s bound to be right here for your viewing pleasure.
And did I mention the
BN disk loaded with shots like four Spokane, Port- land & Seattle RS3s on lease to Conrail, a North- ern Pacific RS11 lashed up to a BN F7A, and more shots of C415s and C636s
than you can shake a stick at? Top that off with a disk
full of WP GPs in every paint scheme they ever ran in (including the short- lived UP yellow with WP lettering) and you have a trifecta of western railroad goodness thst makes for hours of viewing pleasure.
Every photo has the location and date on
it. There is a copyright notice after the de- scription but it doesn’t detract from the image quality at all. Each disk comes loaded with a meaty se-
lection of Kodachrome slides scanned in and converted into high quality JPEG photos that any computer can open. The JPEG files will make great 8"×10" prints if you elect to print them. Files are approximately 4000×2100 pix- els in dimension and scanned at 400 d.p.i. (a few are less) with a file size that varies from 750kb to 1200kb each. I am willing to bet that Peter Arnold, the
creator of these disks, will not become rich from making these available to his fellow rail- fans. My guess is he’s a good guy who wants others to have access to some really useful (and enjoyable) railroad history at a very, very reasonable price. That’s pretty cool of him and it’s worth those of us interested in his subject material supporting him. If you’re a fan of the BN, SP, or WP, please
give these disks a try. Mr. Arnold has a few other related disks for sale at www.rrimages.
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