Carlton, Saskatchewan, 9 years before I was born…
I’ve recently been helping Mum sort through the 4000+ slides my Dad had taken and collected over the years as she prepare to move house for the second time since his passing 14 years ago…
I’ll admit it isn’t easy - the emotion, seeing places on cellulose that I had no idea he had visited, wonderful vista preserved in Kodachrome, his face smiling back in group photos from a road trip across Europe, later photos in North America and an unknown to me, trip to the Rocky Mountains in Colorado… these places, these memories captured in a moment yet lost. Just a cold illustration without the story.
I held onto a few railway examples, the rest can wait for another day. This is one of my favourites… a trip across to Saskatoon and around Saskatchewan. A stop at a small town, Carlton. Grain elevators, GMD-1 lightweight locomotives used on the prairie branch lines, and boxcars being loaded with grain. 1971, probably August, and that’s all I can tell you.
If anyone can shed more light on the prototype location I’d love to hear from you - sadly we’ll never hear the full story of the trip. Until next time, more soon…
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You can almost hear the sound of the engines and feel the summer sun on your skin. Lovely photo James.
ReplyDeleteThanks Tom - credit to my Dad's eye for a photo I think.
DeleteIt’s a great photo James, captures the scene and the land by way of being taken from so low down with the greenery in the foreground. Super.
ReplyDeleteThanks John - I agree, there is a great feel to the photo that I presume could well have been an opportune snap, as the train was passing. That PSC van must be almost brand new!
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