Images From My Past

1975 and 1997 Resurface!

I received a couple of e-mails this week with images from my past.  The first was a picture sent to me by my father.  The image shows my mother, while pregnant with me, taking a movie of the Southern Crescent complete with FIVE E8 locomotives!  Is it any wonder that I would be destined to enjoy trains and make a career of railroading with prenatal experiences like this?  I believe I was fluent in EMD 567B before I was born, let alone before I learned my first word (which I am sure was EMD)!

The second e-mail came from Mike Walsdorf.  He had scanned a slide he had taken on January 3rd, 1997 in New Orleans.  This picture shows three people (Left to Right: Kurt Hampton, Steven Palmieri, and myself) at East City on the NS New Orleans Terminal mainline watching a westbound SP consist roll across town.  This seems like such a LONG time ago!

Thanks Dad and Mike for this random glipmse into my past!

​Chris