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December 2007 NRHS Show Poster

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:03:01 +0000

Well, it's that time of year again. This year I decided it would be a good idea to post the poster for my NRHS show to Flickr and iPernity to see if I can drag anyone more out of the house to come. I'll try to promote the show a little bit more over the coming days on my website and on the boards, but right now I have other things to do so it will have to just be the poster for now.

The show is going to be at the Kirkland Town Library in Clinton, NY, at 7:00p.m., on Thursday the 20th of December, as the poster says. NRHS members are high encouraged to attend, but you certainly don't have to be an NRHS member to come.

It will NOT be a slide show this time, but a video show like last time. I hope to do a slide show next time, as by that time I'll be out of good video, I think. When will that be??? I don't know, but probably next December or whenever I can get back to the Utica & Mohawk Valley Chapter's territory next.

Wrong Bus, 1995 NRHS National Convention, Pocono Summit, PA, USA, 1995

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:40:01 +0000

Jon Searles has posted:

This was....the wrong bus. No, actually that German tourist trying out the driver's seat was fiddling with the crank that changes the headboard. :-) This was actually the bus that was supposed to take us back to the hotel in Lancaster after the Milwaukee Road #261 trip during the 1995 NRHS Convention. That's why I've put a bus photo in my rail photo archives, and the only reason. :-)

Ex-Milwaukee Road #261 At Steamtown During the 1995 NRHS National Convention, Picture 2, Scranton, PA, USA, 1995

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:40:01 +0000

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As with all classic American train shows, the Steamtown Grand Reopening had to have a "Parade of Steam" featuring everything steam that could turn a wheel. Here's 261 doing its runby.

Ex-Milwaukee Road #261 At Steamtown During the 1995 NRHS Convention, Scranton, PA, USA, 1995

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:40:01 +0000

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This shot is the best that I could get in this situation, unfortunately, as the crowding at the Grand Reopening of Steamtown was the largest that I had ever seen at a rail-related event up to that time, and still rivals anything that I've seen since. Even given that it was my best, I still ended up with a guy with a tripod. Notice that he's taking a video of a stationary object. Right.... I also had to crop this to hide a stain on the print that I scanned this from. Anyway, Reading, Blue Mountain, & Northern 425 is also visible in the background on the right.

Ex-Milwaukee Road #261, Picture 11, Pocono Summit, PA, USA, 1995

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:39:02 +0000

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Here's a final shot that I got of 261 as it departed Pocono Summit in a runby.

Ex-Milwaukee Road #261, Picture 10, Pocono Summit, PA, USA, 1995