February 21, 2008
An 1890 Train in the Black Hills
Filed under American History, South Dakota, history, now that's cool!, photography, transportation
I like trains and pictures of old trains, particularly nice images of the steam locomotives. I can remember — barely — when some steam engines were still used on the Union Pacific.
I also like to find large old images where one can see a lot of detail when you look close. I’ve cropped this one several times to show all of the people in the image.
“Giant Bluff.” Elk Canyon on Black Hills and Ft. P. R.R.
A wood-burning locomotive with four cars, on a track below a cliff; several people are posing in front of the train.
1890.
Grabill, John C. H., photographer.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.02546
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Opal Tribble - Vegan Momma @ 6:46 am
I love old trains also. A few times yearly I take my daughter to the Stratsburg train museum. They have numerous old trains, and we actually get to ride on some of the steam engines.
teeni @ 11:07 am
Wow - a woodburning one! And the quality of the photo is really good. I can’t believe you were able to crop those people and we can see them better! I didn’t even see those ones in the back on the last car!
Beth Ellen @ 9:53 pm
Great images. Old trains are so visually interesting.
Mike Goad @ 8:48 am
I intend to post more train images. I grew up in a railroad town and most of the time that I lived there, we lived on the poorer side of the tracks, just a few blocks from the tracks. I sleep very well to the sounds of trains rumbling by. Even train whistles aid my sleep, unless they’re too close!