Comments on: It is a personal ‘thing’, but as I post photos such as this I cannot believe they are 30+ years into the past already. This one 34 years coming up, and it feels like a mere 5 years distant. I’m wondering if some of the older photographers on this site feel the same way with their own works. The Toronto portion of the Canadian, once a grand Lady, has rolled to a stop at Parry Sound in this photo taken from rocks where the track turns northward toward Sudbury. Power is VIA 6501 and 6635. I assume 6501 has been scrapped.

By: Joe Harrison

Joe Harrison — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 01:42:09 +0000

Thanks for the info Arnold. Have been getting my slides digitized back east. Don’t like sending the originals out but sometimes, and I’ve been lucky so far, haven’t had a problem. Things could change now.

By: Marcus Stevens

Marcus Stevens — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 16:49:00 +0000

Great clean looking train.

By: awmooney

awmooney — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 11:04:04 +0000

I might add, Joe (and Aitch) that the only reason I started shooting down in this location because that communications pole by the station back there drove me nuts. Eyesore.

By: awmooney

awmooney — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 11:02:09 +0000

Thanks, Joe: I scan slides and negs (in this case, a neg) on an Epson V550. (I should have gotten the 750, I think, so I could scan large format negs…) A good friend cleans them up for me and removes ‘specks, squiggles’ and other muck, then gives them a sharpen.
I am computer moronic so am lucky to have really good help.

By: Joe Harrison

Joe Harrison — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 03:03:25 +0000

Wonderful image. Are you scanning your own film / slides and if so what type of scanner are you using? Good stuff!!

By: awmooney

awmooney — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 22:36:45 +0000

These were the glory years for me. Every photo I post from Parry Sound (and there are a lot of them) I relive in my mind the good times I had; free of hassle and as an invited guest into the CP station when the late Jimmy Bell was the agent. Yeah, being so young back then bothers me, as the years have passed, but at least in my own mind they were years well spent.
Thank you for your comment. Encourages me to dig up more. )

By: Aitch

Aitch — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 22:05:23 +0000

This is clean and classic ! It is definitely hard to fathom that scenes like this are now over three decades in the rearview mirror. What makes a shot like this all the sweeter is to know you were out there too and can completely relate to the subject and the photographer’s interest to capture it so well.