Remainder of J.J. Young Jr. photo collection to be available online

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Remainder of J.J. Young Jr. photo collection to be available online

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This (The James J. Young Photo Library) will a terrific resource along with the John W. Barriger III, Library Photo Collection: Both now on Flickr, as well.

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This (The James J. Young Photo Library) will a terrific resource along with the John W. Barriger III, Library Photo Collection: Both now on Flickr, as well.

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Thanks kindly to those involved for making these photos and info available to all. Most kind and generous. Many of us out here study, enjoy, and even collect vast collections. Let us all do out part for others. Cheers!

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Thanks so much to the Young family for doing this! The Binghamton area was “railroad central” in J.J.'s day, and nobody represented it better, in consistently beautiful b&w photography. Gonna be great to see this.

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This will be a generous and important legacy. We are all indebted to Mr. Young for capturing these images and his family for their willingness to share it.

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JJ Young, Jr. is John J Young, Jr.

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To echo what Mr Beardsley said, JJ had a really great handle on the rail action in Binghamton, the Southern Tier, and central NY. He not only got the photos, he also knew the crews and officials, as well as every horse, cow, and goat in Broome, Chenango, and Tioga counties-he was legendary for getting animals to pose in his pictures. I once saw him feed a horse sugar cubes to get the animal into his photo, and we kidded him constantly about his inflatable cows.

Thanks to Liz for letting this marvelous collection be available to all, and to JJ III and Sam for doing the hard, but enjoyable, work of sorting through JJ’s art to bring it to us. It’s in good hands.

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Thanks to his family for making these wonderful photos available. I enjoyed them even tho I’m an NYC fan. We are blessed to have such a great set of photos.