Saturday, April 15, 2017

Milan, MI: AA+NS vs. NS+CP/Wabash

(Satellite)

Mark Hinsdale posted

Mark Hinsdale posted three photos with the comment:
"Youthful Mistakes"
Just about 42 years ago, I was quite disgusted with myself for having made three amateur mistakes photographing the very same train. For decades, the slides hid in a yellow Kodachrome box, as I did not consider them to be worthy of anyone's observation. In two of the exposures, I had waited a split second too long to push the shutter button, and in the other, I had not waited quite long enough. In those days, it was a "one shot" proposition, and if you blew it, you blew it. Such is how one learns, though, and at the ripe old age of 22, I was certainly in need of plenty of learning! But with the passage of time, the subject matter itself sometimes outweighs the imperfections of the photographer. Perhaps that might be the case with this sequence of northbound Ann Arbor Train TF-1, at Milan MI and near Pittsfield MI, in early May, 1975. Photos by Mark Hinsdale

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Unlike many towns, both of these routes still exist, but now both are owned by Norfolk Southern. Ann Arbor was the north/southish route and Wabash was the diagonal route.

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