Wheels of time boxcars

[jagged ben]

James,
   I do have more my buddy and I shot in the 90's. We concentrated  mostly on fallen flags. I could start a new post in the prototype forum if there's any interest.

Bob

Are you kidding?  Of course there would be interest!

I have to say as an '80s-'90s kid there seems to be dearth of good freight car photos from those eras, in particular the '90s.  There's more good photos online from the 70s than from the 90s it seems.  It's as if railcar photography was just too old hat in the 90s, or maybe too much effort or expense or something.   Or maybe the guys who were young in the 70s are all now retired have the time to scan and post all their photos, and the guys from the 90s don't, yet.   And then digital cameras came along and made it so much cheaper and faster, you have all the references photos you need after about 2003.

[nkalanaga]

Bryan:  These are from the second series.  The first, which WOT modeled, was 200000 - 200074.  The second was 200080 - 200129, and had the low brakewheel, as well as the Great Northern name.  The door was also slightly different, but since WOT has different doors on different roadnames, that would have been an easy fix.  These cars would have been a more accurate choice for their model.

[BobRunty]

Are you kidding?  Of course there would be interest!

I have to say as an '80s-'90s kid there seems to be dearth of good freight car photos from those eras, in particular the '90s.  There's more good photos online from the 70s than from the 90s it seems.  It's as if railcar photography was just too old hat in the 90s, or maybe too much effort or expense or something.   Or maybe the guys who were young in the 70s are all now retired have the time to scan and post all their photos, and the guys from the 90s don't, yet.   And then digital cameras came along and made it so much cheaper and faster, you have all the references photos you need after about 2003.

Ben,
  In my case it had more to do with regret for not taking more in the 70's. A 36 exp. roll of Kodachrome and the mailer for processing used to cost around $5 or $6 in the mid 70's if I remember right and that was a pretty good chunk for a high school kid taking home about $25 a week. With early BN, the Rock Island on its last legs, and early Conrail there was just too much incredible power to shoot and we never wanted to "waste" precious film on something like a boxcar. Memories of sidings filled with 40' boxcars in steam era fallen flags paint schemes in the mid to late 70's are the main reason we started to shoot more freight cars later, though film was still expensive so I still didn't take as many as I should have. That and an increased interest in more prototypical freight car modeling. Oh to go back then with a digtal camera and a memory card.

Bob