beachdonkey
Model railways, classic cars, music

Marvellous how things have changed in our lifetime ... and some things even for the better... still better than using a box brownie then waiting 2 weeks for your snaps to returned to the chemist.![]()
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Taken with a Box Brownie, 51 years ago.
The photo came back from Kodak, via the Chemist, nowhere as good as this, but, modern photo editing available these days allowed me to get rid of all the dust spots, scratches, and to enhance the previously darkened details.
...........still better than using a box brownie then waiting 2 weeks for your snaps to returned to the chemist.![]()
Is that a Ka Gavin?
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I tend to only use my Tablet for posting pictures and looking at GSC these days. The PC hardly gets used at all. I may one day get all my pics on sticks then I would pretty well be PC Free though I would need better backup of the pics as I know that Sticks do go pop.Enjoying the sun on my day off...posting this from my tablet which I hardly ever use so this should be attached to the pictures (if they got Posted??)
Yes, Ka 954. Taken at Longburn Stockyards Siding, July 1966. I was 12 years old at the time.
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Thanks Gavin. You probably took that around the same time as I was given Stewart's book on NZ locos for Christmas. I thought the Ka and Kb were great looking locos- have yet to see or hear one working- but hopefully will in time. Cheeres
Cavalcade of New Zealand Locomotives, by A.N. Palmer and W.W. Stewart. A H. & A. W Reed, 1956, and 1965.
Noel Palmer lived on my paper run, and I met Willie Stewart a few times. Worked with his grandson for a while in the bus industry.