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| Title: |
Early Morning Highball |
| Alternate Title: |
Passenger Train with Streamlined Steam Locomotive in Durand, Michigan (editor’s title) |
| Creator: |
Barry, Frank
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Description:
Grand Trunk Western passenger train no. 22 departing Durand, Michigan, behind steam locomotive no. 6408, a streamlined 4-8-4 of the U-4-b class. The train made an overnight run from Muskegon to Detroit, making a two-hour layover in Durand to pickup a Detroit-bound sleeping car off train no. 6 from Chicago. Durand was the GTW’s most important junction, where the Chicago-Toronto mainline crossed the Muskegon-Detroit mainline. The at-grade crossing of the two routes is visible in the background beyond the standing cars. |
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| Classification: |
Equipment and Technology (LCSH)
Railroad Art and Culture
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| Date Created: |
1958-06-14 |
| Resource Type: |
Image (DCMI Type Vocabulary)
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| Format: |
Black and white print
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| Rights: |
Frank Barry |
| Coverage: |
Spatial, Durand, Michigan; Temporal, June 14, 1958 |
| Extent: |
11 in. x 14 in. |
| Source: |
Frank Barry, Ithaca, New York |
| Depicted Railroad: |
Grand Trunk Western
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| Location: |
Durand, Michigan |
| Train Type: |
Passenger train |
| Equipment, Locomotive: |
U-4-b class 4-8-4 no. 6408 |
| Builder, locomotive: |
Lima Locomotive Works, 1938 |
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Creator Description:
Frank Barry, born in 1937, was photographing trains by age nine and became a regular "mascot" at the Rutland Roundhouse in Vermont when he was ten. He spent his college vacations hitchhiking hundreds of miles in search of steam. After graduating in 1959, he worked in community development programs, mostly in Mexico, where he extensively photographed steam operations. He was also stationed in Chama, New Mexico, during the last winter for Rio Grande’s steam-powered narrow gauge lines. In 1967, Barry entered graduate school at Cornell University where he continued his career in community extension work until retiring in 2003. He has photographed active steam locomotives in 20 countries on four continents, and his photos and articles have appeared in more than 50 books, magazines and newspapers. |
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| Collection: |
Frank Barry Collection |
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