Model Railroad Hobbyist | January 2015 | #59
GETTING REAL
JACK BURGESS
PHOTO COLLECTION IDEAS
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Keeping track of photos ...
MODELING A PROTOTYPE GENERALLY INCLUDES THE NEED
to collect a certain amount of information about the railroad being
modeled. Some railroads have been covered so thoroughly in books
and historical journals or magazines that the only real research
needed is finding copies of those resources. For the rest of us, one
of our sub-hobbies might be collecting photos of our prototype.
When I began researching and modeling the Yosemite Valley
Railroad over 45 years ago, I naively thought that the single
available book about the YV (Hank Johnston’s
Railroads of the
Yosemite Valley
) included all the photos of the railroad that
existed. But a couple of years later, a friend gave me a couple of
“new” YV photos. They weren’t very good prints, but it sent me
on a quest for more photos, an addiction which continues to
this day.
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