Here’s a question that comes up once in awhile on some of the boards and is a dilemma that many of us must face as we get older.

Just how do you dispose of your slide collection? I’d love to keep them all but…after nearly 15,000 slides and forty years of taking photos, I’ve come to a cross roads.

Let’s face it – not every photo that we’ve taken is a “Steinheimer” but we keep them anyway.
I don’t really want to leave it to my family to go through them as there are many that have obvious historical value and some that have sentimental value. How would they know which is which? I have mostly all my slides catalogued in a database so at least they can be indentified – but who is to decide what to keep?

I’ve decided that Ebay may be one solution. Not that I’m looking for $$$, but by paring down the collection – maybe someone else can enjoy the images and they will get shared with others.

I’ve just listed many of my Central Montana slides on Ebay that I took when I lived out in Lewistown circa 1992 – 2000 and I suppose some folks would call it sacrilege to “break-up” a collection.

But, just how many images are needed and what should be the deciding factor in what we keep for posterity?

Maybe there are not right or wrong answers, just what works for you.

I don’t know – just a question of an aging railfan.


Talk to ya later,
Dale Jones

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www. montanarailroadhistory.info