Colorized and restored black and white photographs

Jamey Johnson, “You should have seen it in color”.

Mike.

Yes, that is why I chose to share that one, it was the only one of the WW1 photographs that featured railroad equipment.

Trying to stay on the themes of these forum boards.

-Kevin

Originally color rather than colorized:

Southern Pacific central shops from roughly I Street, Sacramento, CA

Sacramento Waterfront, now Old Sacramento and the home of the California State Railroad Museum

Note the Sacramento Northern steeplecab in the background, pulling a freight train over the Tower Bridge.

Both photos from the Ouye family collection

Pretty sure that car was red, white and blue. Those free online colorizing programs are more geared to colorizing people as that’s what most people used them for, hence facial recognition is part of its coloring basis. They do a terrible job of coloring inanimate objects like trains, cars, etc. as the program can’t detect any faces, so just takes a stab in the dark.

Mark.