Ball Signal at the East End of Columbus ?

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I viewed the website - it appears a good number of the N&W shots were inadvertently scanned backwards….loco numbers, and stenciling of N&W on freight cars are a giveaway.  Photos are great anyway - it’s hard to stop once you start viewing!

Brian Gilleran
Herndon, VA

> On May 22, 2021, at 8:24 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> Senator Hamilton, and Lesser Luminaries as well....
>  
> John W. Barriger was president of at least three railraods, during the 1930s-1940s.  There is a Wikipedia article on him.
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> Apparently he carried a camera with him everywhere he went, and while travelling spent most of his time on the platform of the observation car, &c.
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> His entire library, including negatives, was given to the St Louis Mercantile Library perhaps 30+ years ago.  That institution scanned his negatives and put them up on Flickr [sic,] an image-hositing website.  A few of his images from the 1920s carry identifications, the rest only carry a number penned on the negative... and from there on, it is guessing-game time.  Most of his negatives are just ordinary; a few are top-shelf material; a few are **worse than terrible,** as the old timers used to say.
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> Start here, for kicks, and when you run out of things to do, send me a telegram and I will send you more...
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> https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/51180119005/in/photostream/ <https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/51180119005/in/photostream/> 
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> https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/51179819279/in/photostream/ <https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/51179819279/in/photostream/>
>  
> -- abram burnett
>  Cardinal Earth Dimension Turnips, LLC
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