Does anyone here know the source of this photo, or where it appeared? I thought it might be from the Erie Magazine (for employees), but I can’t find it there online.
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NKP_guy
Click on this link
Once on the linked website, click on the big white arrow, then scroll way down to find your photo and information about it including the photographer who took the photo.
Rich
This was a real help, but I don’t see any “big white arrow” anywhere. This looks like company photographer John Long’s work. Thank you.
Yes, John Long.
Here is a screenshot. The arrow is on the far right of the Erie logo. Press on that arrow. Scroll way down to read the story of the photo.
This is what I’m seeing. Clicking on the Erie herald doesn’t bring up any arrow, either. I’m not sure what to do. Can you screen shot the information for me and send me a private message with it?
Is this what you are looking for?
Yes, I do now. Thanks.
A question: The same photo is currently for sale on Ebay. The author of the Postcard collection states he doesn’t sell images or cooperate on projects, so I think that’s a dead-end. Maybe I’ll have to buy the photo on Ebay. Thanks again for your help.
Glad to help.
I see that photo on eBay. The seller says it is original and the listing includes Best Offer.
I bought a stack of ‘8 x 10’ glossies at one of the train shows around here a few (OK, maybe 10) years ago. There were a bunch of ERIE publicity shots in there.
Erie_8x10 Johnston Paul-W. by Edmund, on Flickr
Erie 300 Inspection Car by Edmund, on Flickr
ERIE Boxcar in fresh paint. by Edmund, on Flickr
I’ll have to find the folder I have them in. I don’t recall seeing the F-unit photo in there otherwise I would have scanned it already.
Cheers, Ed
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Locomotive 802 is a F3A, built in mid-1947; most of the contemporary publicity pictures show them in A-B-A sets. (The famous earlier FTs were in the 700 series.). I cannot tell if they were delivered as “Locomotive 802” with individual unit letters, e.g. 802A or 802D) in the period when the issue of firemen on trailing units hadn’t been decided; it’s my suspicion that this picture was taken later. Many of these locomotives apparently survived long enough to be renumbered (by adding one digit) when the first SD45s came.
I wonder if the contemporary pictures of 802 demonstrating the servicing facilities in Marion, circa 1951, were taken around the same time. The picture is certainly staged!
I understand company photographer John Long took the photo in 1955.
I don’t know how many of you follow the photo albums at the John W. Barriger III Library at Flickr but, for me anyway, it is a fascinating source of great photos.
Recently they have been featuring photos by Preston Cook and there are hundreds, if not thousands, of photos from EMD and other diesel manufacturers. Recently they posted quite a few of the ERIE Marion engine facility which seems to have been designed with support from EMD:
Slide103 by John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library, on Flickr
Slide98 by John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library, on Flickr
Slide92 by John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library, on Flickr
Explore to your heart’s content! There are just over 60,000 photos.
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Correct
NKP_guy, are you looking for the 8 x 10 original?
Rich
No. Just the permission to use it in a book.
Who owns the rights to the photo?
And there is the $64 question.
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