1940’s & 50’s, Chicago, at the junction of Englewood Station. PRR, NYC, NP and RI all had passenger trains that stopped there. The pictures I’d have taken!
Any where on the ERIE in the days of steam.
The late 40’s. Union Station Chicago. Just let me jump on any of the famous old trains going anywhere that left that beautiful old station.
This is a GREAT question !!!1
I would have to shoot the Erie-Lackawanna in the early 60’s in my area—Buffalo.
This was just after the merger so I would see both previous paint schemes , plus in this era I could see NYC, PRR , LV , N&W , TH&B all fighting for Buffalo’s grain and steel traffic. Plus the Phobe Snow.
My Tardis would drop me off at the inner loop to photograph C,A,&E, CNS&M, CTA CRT wooden, through the newest trains just park the Tardis on the platform, and skip back and forth through the years. Riding on all of the abandonned lines. see the lower Wilson Avenue station, get off at Buena, walk the half block to my grandparent’s house, seeing the fountain with water in it.
my pocket full of tokens all day long into the night. Off at Upper Wilson again and down the marble stairs and dodge across the trolley tracks to the other side of broadway and the Green Mill, to listen to the Jazz greats.
To Staten Island, to ride the SIRT North route and the ferry to Brooklyn, by trolley to Ebbetts Field to watch the Cubs and Dodgers play. up and down the L’s of new york ,now gone.
Doug, in Utah
Ft. Worth when T&P was around!! Tower 55 would have T&P, Rock Island, ATSF, Fort Worth & Denver (Burlington), Katy, some SP/Cotton Belt, and Frisco even ran a little in Ft. Worth.
I would go to the Garden of Eden and throw rocks at a serpent,give two people a lecture on obedience.Then off to 1910 Marion,Ohio a very busy rail junction. Joe G.
I would go to the Garden of Eden and throw rocks at a serpent,give two people a lecture on obedience.Then off to 1910 Marion,Ohio a very busy rail junction. Joe G.