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From: "J DOT Henry Priebe Jr DOT " root AT net DOT bluemoon DOT net
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 14:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: RE: (erielack) Ballast edge
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Phil Albano wrote:

> I think that sharp ballast line is not retouched and heres
> why. My grandfather worked for the Erie from 1912 - 1959 and
> was section foreman at Lima, Ohio. Like a lot of old time
> railroaders he took a lot of pride in his work. He told me
> they used a long piece of string as a guide to make a perfect
> straight edge on the ballast. Keep in mind during most of his
> career the M of W Dept. did a lot of work by hand as the
> modern track machinery of today did not exist .
>
> I realize that knife edge ballast line looks too perfect so
> it is understandable why some would think the photo was
> retouched. Here is a photo my grandfather took during the
> 1920s at MP 59 which is about 7 miles west of Lima, Ohio.
> This photo is the original yellowing fading print that is
> unaltered and has never been near a computer until today!
> Show this to the guys in your local M of W dept. and tell
> them the ballast edge was lined up with a string - they won't
> believe it but it should be good for a few laughs.

Here's the photo Phil attached. It wasn't recognized because the filename
didn't have a .jpg extension. I manually extracted it from the debug copy of
the listmail and renamed it.

Henry

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