Xerces Fobe2 Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 From Walthers Facebook Page. "John Walker Barriger, III–best known for his roles as president of the Monon, Pittsburgh & Lake Erie, Missouri-Kansas-Texas and Boston & Maine railroads–was not only recognized as a scholar of the railroad industry, but also as an avid rail photographer. During his lifetime he traveled the rails extensively, amassing over 50,000 railroad-related photographs. Happily, thanks to the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library, many of those images are now online, with close to 20,000 negatives available for viewing to date. The pictures cover railroads across the continent, documenting the enormous changes that took place in American railroading from the 1920s to the 1970s, making them an amazing resource for model railroading information. Take a look, it’s an insightful look at railroading history." www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary Hours of fun XF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Cool, nice resource. I like the way are scanned too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
highpeak Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Mr. Barriger's contribution to the Boston and Maine was commemorated by the naming of a locomotive, GP40-2 number 300, here at Rigby when still fairly new: The B&M did have something of a tradition of naming steam locomotives but named diesels were quite rare. I was pleased to see plenty of photographs of scenes without trains, which may seem an odd thing to say, but you get a better view of the track and its surroundings, sometimes useful for a modeller. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 I like the way they are scanned too You mean the upside-down ones, and the reversed ones? Joking aside, there are some real gems there. Quite a few of those showing only track look as if they have been taken from the rear platform on the last coach of a steam train - there is a trail of smoke visible in the picture. (Given Barriger's positions on these railroads, that seems quite possible.) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Great resource - particularly for infra-structure. Thanks, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bigbee Line Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 You could spend a life time (literally) looking at these images. http://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/12297020234/in/set-72157640520156893 is a shot of two FM Train Master diesels hauling coal cars. Shame they haven't weathered the ballast yet (joke). These images are a window into a whole new world. A big well done to whoever was behind this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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