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The presenters for the 2015 edition of Summerail at CUT gather in front of Cincinnati Union Terminal for the traditional group shot on August 8. STEVE BARRY PHOTO
the train for the siding got there first and cleared the main line, all would be fine. K and his fellow operator figured it out and waited breathlessly for minutes — K said the 20 minutes while waiting for either a headlight or a telegraph announcing a wreck seemed like many hours, and I have no doubt he prayed the entire time. Finally, out of the dark came a piercing headlight — the train for the siding got there first. His description of the relief at the sight of that headlight could not have captured his and his fellow operator’s feelings. It was a mistake neither of them would ever repeat. Neither operator told anyone of the discrepancy in the orders, and no one ever discovered it. I treasure the times I spent in the darkroom
with K, or sitting by his desk while we thumbed through negatives and told stories, or riding behind one of his 11
/2 -inch live
steam engines with him at the throttle. He was, indeed, a giant of steam photography. — KEVIN EUDALY
Summerail at CUT
The railroad photography highlight of the Ohio Valley was held inside Cincinnati Union Terminal as the Cincinnati Railroad Club hosted the 20th Summerail at CUT on August 8, 2015. Some 14 programs were held inside the theater of the classic art deco station. As is traditional, the weekend kicked off
with dinner at Camp Washington Chili. For those of you who have never had Cincinnati- style chili, you are missing out on one of the best culinary treats you’ll find in the U.S. The Camp Washington staff knows to look out for the large “train group” on the second weekend in August, even without any advance warning. Once dinner was done, it was time to
head over to CUT for a round of informal shows. Unlike the shows at the main event on Saturday that are all multi-media presentations, the Friday shows are more informal “talkies” akin to the traditional slide show. Alan Burns, Dan Dover, Tom Carver, and Tom Sink all presented during the evening. Saturday morning found the CUT rotunda buzzing with activity as the large railroadiana
show was underway. Just after lunch, the multi-media shows started in the theater with Mark Llanuza of Bartlett, Ill., kicking things off. “Semaphores and Wig Wags” covered the surviving namesake signals along the former Santa Fe line over Raton Pass in New Mexico. Following Mark was Mike McBride from Dixon, Ill., with a show on the now-gone “LaSalle & Bureau County.” Mike hails from that region around Rockford, Ill., that has given us great photographers like Jim Boyd and Mike Schafer, so it’s no surprise that Mr. McBride is a good photographer and story- teller.
“Just Call Me Richard” by Tim Hensch of Milwaukee, Wis., was the third show of the day, and it focused on eastern Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, with scenes of Wisconsin Central, Fox River Valley, and Union Pacific. Dan Munson of Gillette, Wyo., then gave us detailed look at “(BNSF) Flood 2011,” showing how the railroad prepared for and then recovered from the vast flooding of the Missouri River in Nebraska. Scenes included building levees over the mainline to protect towns, raising track levels to outpace rising water levels, and, ultimately, repairing heavily damaged rights-of-way after the flood. Gary Rolih of Cincinnati presented “Early Railroads in Postcards,” giving a brief history of how railroads came to be featured on the cards in the first place and then presenting a sampling of various scenes depicted on those cards through the years. We went from some of the earliest rail photography in Gary’s show to some of the latest techniques in digital photography in “Just My Imagination” by Charlie Dischinger of Springfield, Mo. Charlie is an artist first, and extensively uses Photoshop to expand his expressive capabilities. The dinner break was next, with the R&R/
White River Productons gang heading to Skyline Chili in Covington, Ky., for yet another round of three-ways and cheese coneys. After dinner, Sayre Kos and Chris Guss of Chicago presented “Mike Abalos’ Classic Midwest Railroads.” Mike was a great influence and friend to many photographers of the region; sadly, he passed away in 2006. This tribute
The time from the late-1950s
until the mid-1990s were years of transition and decline of the SP’s influence in the west;
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45 photographers, Southern Pacific: Sacramento Division presents a thorough look at
SP’s mainline and branchline operations from Dunsmuir to
Fresno, and from Sacramento to Ogden. The presentation illustrates the dramatic geographic and geologic
conditions through which the Southern Pacific’s various Sacramento Division lines were built, from pastoral
farming land, to deserts, to rugged mountains.
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