No modeling photos as they would just be of more railings and platforms on A-Furnace stoves - seems endless. I was going through my box of photos/slides/and negatives sitting on my office floor and I pulled out some old (1986-89) black and white negatives. For most of my college years - 1984-88 - and into the very early 90's, I shot everything in either black and white or color slides. I didn't have a lot of money so black and white was an cheap way to shoot everything, without breaking the bank. I processed all the film myself in a darkroom at the student center at school, and then after, in a darkroom I set up in my apartment. I even bought the black and white film in bulk rolls and loaded film canisters myself - almost as cheap as digital photography. I would process the negatives and make a proof sheet of the entire roll. Select photos would be printed, but paper was expensive, especially after college, so I limited myself. The result was that I never actually saw full size prints of most of my shots, and over time forgot a lot of the subject matter. Scanners make it easy now to see what's on these negatives full size. Since a lot of what I took photos of has since been demolished, it's kind of exciting scanning this film. One embarrassing discovery, on the heels of my 25th wedding anniversary in a few days, was the quantity of railroad and industrial photos I took on my honeymoon. My beautiful young wife lost out to locomotives and factories on a 20:1 ratio. This shot is Bethlehem Steel in 1987 - the mill was in full operation, but clouds were on the horizon. In the center of the photo is the approach to the high-line. The track on the right is the standard gauge coke track, while the left track is the dual gauge (7'11") ore and stone track. The overhead catenary is only for the wide gauge ore/stone electric transfer cars. Diesels moved the coke hoppers.
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