Mystery Picture

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Its my understanding that they were dupe transparencies. Ken Miller jump in here.

Larry Evans
Kenova, WV
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  I have the Vanishing Vistas card with this photo.  The location is given as Troutville and the engine is 2123.  The solid train of tank cars is to transport oil by rail during World War II because German submarines had disrupted the transport of oil along the Atlantic seaboard.  The peak year for the oil trains was 1943.  So the correct orientation of the photo is with the passing siding in the foreground, on the engineer's side of the locomotive.  The Vanishing Vistas image (copyright 1972) was made from large size transparencies taken by N&W's company photographers.  There may be a b&w version of this scene in the Virginia Tech image collection.  

  Back at the time these cards with N&W images were produced, there was some question whether the borrowed transparencies were ever returned to the railroad.  I know they were transparencies because a Vanishing Vistas representative himself told me so at a convention long ago.

  --Rick Morrison
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        I was over at my son's house on Christmas Eve and went downstairs to see his tree. While there, I noticed he had a picture of a train hanging over his fireplace mantle. The room was kind of dark and there were some tall decorations on the mantle hiding some of the picture. As I looked at the picture, it seemed that I somehow should know where it was taken.
        I went closer trying to recognize the location but it didn't hit me at first. It seemed familiar, but, I just couldn't place the location. I then got involved in conversation with my son and other family members, but, I kept getting drawn back to the picture. I moved in closer and removed some of the decorations that were obscuring the locomotive. That's when it hit me... this photo has been printed in reverse. The road number was wrong (5123), plus, the throttle linkage and air pumps were on the wrong side.


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