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Lou's Slide Collection of Railroad Subjects
Prior to about 1978, I shot a few train subjects with ordinary color print film. From then until 1997, I shot almost exclusively Kodachrome™ slides. I have roughly a thousand slides in my collection. One of my favorite shots was of Philadelphia's Reading Terminal on its last day of operation as a train station, taken from the rear vestibule of a departing train. It appeared in Railpace Magazine. I have some large photographic prints of that slide for sale at $20 each.
The slides are not currently for sale, but send some feedback if you want to be advised in the event they ever go on the market. It is my intention to have the best ones scanned and post them here for free as thumbnails or medium-quality images, with a bit of descriptive text. I will offer high quality scans up to 1200dpi (optical) or 9600dpi (interpolated), prints or duplicate slides for a fee, depending on what you want, under a copyright license yet to be written.
If you have an interest in the product of this undertaking, send me some Feedback. It is possible the project will be expedited by the use of paid help if it has financial promise. I would also appreciate comment, encouragement and (free) advice or assistance from anyone who is involved in a similar undertaking. Your suggestions as to any particular methodology for this project would be appreciated.
While the slide boxes are marked with subjects and date ranges, unfortunately, I have not yet catalogued very many individual images into a retrievable storage system. Cataloguing them is a real-time operation that will simply take some time. It will be complicated by the desire to write something about each significant item. Watch for an index to emerge here little by little as time goes by.
I also have a large collection of original Train Video Tapes, which I started shooting in mid-1997.
Selections from Lou's Slide Collection, along with some free wallpaper (1st page, 8 sec over 28.8)
Image Preservation. Recommendations on preserving your own valuable photo masterpieces.