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Re: SP, or variety of railroads?

Author: Jesse

Date: 11-07-2009 - 14:42

Hey all - thanks for the insightful responses~! Especially based on these comments, I believe I will continue to focus on a variety -- Class 1s and branchlines/shortlines (the rural one-a-day lines have always been the most interesting to me) -- but narrow the focus tighter geographically. These will all be original shots, that's why I thought the SP in particular would have a strong audience -- as I have a hoard of 1980s-1990s SP I am trying to narrow down.
I appreciated the Don Ball references - one of his books was actually the first RR book I ever bought, back in the early 1980s. As with Ball, I always have tried to provide a mixture of images from more than one RR; my leanings are to freights and to the "backwater" lines; and I have focused on the Northwest and Midwest... kind of a "northern tier" approach, because that represents where I've lived and where I'm from... THANKS again!

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Subject	Written By	Date/Time (PST)
SP, or variety of railroads?	Jesse	11-07-2009 - 01:12
Re: SP, or variety of railroads?	SPGuy	11-07-2009 - 07:06
Re: SP, or variety of railroads?	Tom Moungovan	11-07-2009 - 07:16
Re: SP, or variety of railroads?	Rich Hunn	11-07-2009 - 10:03
Re: SP, or variety of railroads?	Tom Moungovan	11-07-2009 - 10:30
Re: SP, or variety of railroads?	Rich Hunn	11-07-2009 - 12:13
Re: SP, or variety of railroads?	Eric Williams	11-07-2009 - 12:34
Re: SP, or variety of railroads?	hepkema	11-07-2009 - 13:15
Re: SP, or variety of railroads?	Jesse	11-07-2009 - 14:42
Re: SP, or variety of railroads?	WAF	11-07-2009 - 15:12
Re: SP, or variety of railroads?	almo	11-07-2009 - 23:31
Re: SP, or variety of railroads?	Scott Schiechl	11-07-2009 - 15:54
Re: SP, or variety of railroads?	Bill B	11-07-2009 - 16:10
Re: SP, or variety of railroads? - Bill	Jesse	11-07-2009 - 17:04
Re: SP, or variety of railroads? - Bill	Rich Hunn	11-08-2009 - 07:49
Re: SP, or variety of railroads? - Bill	WAF	11-08-2009 - 14:41
Re: SP, or variety of railroads? - Bill	Stevo del Applegato	11-08-2009 - 20:44

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Jesse Wrote:
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> Hey all - thanks for the insightful responses~!
> Especially based on these comments, I believe I
> will continue to focus on a variety -- Class 1s
> and branchlines/shortlines (the rural one-a-day
> lines have always been the most interesting to me)
> -- but narrow the focus tighter geographically.
> These will all be original shots, that's why I
> thought the SP in particular would have a strong
> audience -- as I have a hoard of 1980s-1990s SP I
> am trying to narrow down. 
>  I appreciated the Don Ball references - one of
> his books was actually the first RR book I ever
> bought, back in the early 1980s. As with Ball, I
> always have tried to provide a mixture of images
> from more than one RR; my leanings are to freights
> and to the "backwater" lines; and I have focused
> on the Northwest and Midwest... kind of a
> "northern tier" approach, because that represents
> where I've lived and where I'm from... THANKS
> again!

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