My Favorite Slides

by Mike Condren

An Arkansas Railroad Club fan trip on the AD&N. On the trip north we ran the entire train over a hunter asleep on the tracks with both arms laying across the rails. The engine crew did not see him as he was just over the crest of a hill and the train was running with the cab of the engine against the train.

A chase with Dave Ingles when he was showing me around St. Louis and central IL.

I caught this as part of a trip to Chicago to visit with a friend from Rolla days who was stationed at Great Lakes Naval Station.

Spring Break trip with David McDonald to ride the Rio Grande Zephyr and explore CO. David got chilled and went to sit in the car while we waited for the Climax train to go on duty. David got out to say something to me and I started walking toward him until I broke through the crust of snow, filling my boot with snow.

I shot the Texas Zephyr on a trip to watch the University of Arkansas play Louisiana State University in the Cotton Bowl. The Hogs lost after a 23 games winning steak.

The same trip to Chicago to visit friend.

Friends from Van Buren, AR owned a cabin on the lake at right. Magog was about 15 miles away. This is the westbound Atlantic Limited. My folks and I were on a trip to visit the cabin, my second such visit, and to take in Expo 67 in Montreal.

Friend John Beirne is out front getting his shot of the Alton Limited.

I was in Mexico, MO to shoot the Flying Scotsman when this string of F3s appeared. Jim Boyd and I were shooting them when I remarked to Jim that the 3 As were all different models of the F3A.

This eastbound Grand Truck train has just crossed the Nickel Plate and is preparing to cross the Pennsylvania double track mainline.

This westbound Nickel Plate passenger train is just west of the crossing where I shot the Grand Trunk earlier in the day. Note the paralleling PRR mainline.

This shot was taken just off of the Purdue University campus.

This westbound freight is on the joint New York Central/Grand Trunk Western four track mainline in South Bend.

I will never forget this picture. As I was preparing to take it, an eastbound set of power was passing through the station unknown to me until he started blowing his horn.