OTHER PEOPLE'S MEMORIES (FILM)

I was raised in Elkhart, Indiana where my father went to work at the Robert R. Young yards doing on trains in trains to different areas of Chicago. There is a very large rail yard built in Elkhart in the 1950's that at THAT TIME was the LARGEST yard in the world.

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Cool photo (& history lesson). Love the patterns of the rails.

Elkhart, Indiana Rail Road Yards of 1958
Robert R. Young Rail Yards

My father worked on the New York Central Rail Road lines starting I believe in 1935, then retired from Penn-Central in 1975. New York Central and the Pennsylvania Rail Road merged on January 1, 1968. I never did like that they merged!

He worked out of the Elkhart rail yards his entire work life, as a conductor mostly on freight trains back in the day when they used a caboose. Wait, Caboose? What in the world is that??? Oh how I miss seeing them at the tail end of a train! My dad mostly went to Blue Island a lot (west of Chicago) but there were a few other places he also went also in the Chicago area that I can no longer remember.
When the yards in Elkhart were finished in 1958, at that TIME it was the Largest Rail Yard in the WORLD. The largest yard now is Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska

This is from Google Earth what it looks like today: (Above 2 posts I showed an earlier view)

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This thread stirs up some anxiety I have about what will happen to my images when I'm long gone. Gone are the days of going through an attic and finding old photos or film from someone who passed. I often wonder if/how our current media will be resurrected in 50 -100+ years from now. I wonder what digital formats might not be easily accessible, or at least difficult enough to access that our grandchildren or great grandchildren won't be compelled to do so. I've sort of come to the conclusion that external drives stored in water/fireproof containers is probably the safest long-term solution. I'm fully prepared to provide a bit of supernatural technical support to whomever finds my media in the future

That's very interesting Charles, all of it.
Thanks for posting.

I wonder how many times they got the wrong wagons etc hitched to others?
It would take a massive amount of concentration and coordination

One of many reasons I went back to shooting film.

Wife's grade school pictures. 1936.
Would have been in Wabek, North Dakota

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Wife's grade school pictures. 1936.
Would have been in Wabek, North Dakota

Very nice.
Looks like the girls were enjoying themselves.
Some moreso than others.
What a sweet lot.

Doesn't look like the boys were overly impressed
Lovely photos.

Grandpa Spahr at the International Harvester plant, Springfield, Ohio.
Had to be in the early 1900's

You're right. In the second picture, the boy in the middle of the front row is less than happy.

Glad you liked them.

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Wife's grade school pictures. 1936.
Would have been in Wabek, North Dakota

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What a very cool idea!! Now where are my grade school pictures??????

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Grandpa Spahr at the International Harvester plant, Springfield, Ohio.
Had to be in the early 1900's

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I love this old piece of machinery!!

Letter from my Uncle Bill, to his Sister Helen.
He was probably in Egypt then.

The envelope it was in. Composite of two scans.
Helen made some notes on the back of it.

Uncle Bill, left GI, in Egypt, Spring of 1943.

Those old war letters are interesting.
I've got all dads letters back to mum.
Quite chilling and sad in many places.
The hardships endured!

And the modern day generation grizzle about everything and anything