Thanks,

I have a huge collection of photos, my father was an NP conductor and a very serious photographer, shooting with a 4x5 Busch Pressman and a Rolleiflex. I have about 500 steam era shots, mostly 1947-57, and a lot of early Diesel too, all in the Tacoma/Seattle/Portland and branches areas. I rode with him at least once a month from the time I was 4 or so, until I was in college and it was the BN. Personally, I started shooting trains in about 65 or so, and quickly moved from a Baby Rollie copy (127 film) through 35mm and on to 120 and 4X5. There's another 1000+ images.

As the railroaders got to know me, I was lucky, they realized how serious I was about preserving the images. Tom (TC) Miller, NP engineer and very serious photographer, left me his collection. Several other railroaders left dad and I a bunch of other early images, some dating back to 1910 or so.

Jack Anderson, best known as a steam wizard at Mt. Rainier Scenic RR. and I bummed around the NW chasing early Diesels, neat locations, Rayonier and Vancouver Island steam. He was also a top notch photographer, we went through commercial photo school together, and he gave me all his negatives as well.

I've digitized about 1/3 of the images so far, cleaning them up as I go. I make my living as a "fine art" photographer, so I'm pretty good at this. Yes, there are multiple back-ups! I do hope to publish before too much longer.

Oh yeah, it's about 80% NP, and pretty evenly mixed with all the other NW railroads.

Here's another shot of the bridge, this time at sunset, with NP train #407, from Portland. I just scanned this one, been meaning to for a long time, but putting it off. I knew it would be a pain, an early 35mm shot of mine, very dusty and somewhat water spotted. It took a while to clean up! Thank Goodness there's PhotoShop!



Steve