Comfort In Quebec
Well it's time to dig into the cardboard vaults and dig out slides that have passed over for previous scans due to poor quality, dark days, or just, "eh"....etc...
Today at least we can make them to look almost like what we had seen when there. As you all probably know, I spent just about every vacation penny I had in the later half of the 80's decade in Quebec. I just couldn't get enough of the countryside, Alcos, people, Alcos, the food, oh, did I mention Alcos??
This first one I want to present was a rather dusty beast before feeding it into the digital darkroom. This is probably in my top 5 of all time train chases. It began at Thetford Mines, Quebec with this pair of "8700's" built as MLW intended them to be. Of couse, it was the only game in town, being Quebec Central's tri-weekly train from Sherbrooke, so the chase was on for the entire rest of their southbound journey to Sherbrooke. This was a roadside grad at Camp-Comfort. In reality, the twin RS-18's were the only disturbance across the lake. After the caboose passing, it was back into the comfort zone for the locals, especially after the 86' Ranger pick up spun tires and raised dust getting out of town right on the heels of the southbound!
Comfort In Quebec
Well it's time to dig into the cardboard vaults and dig out slides that have passed over for previous scans due to poor quality, dark days, or just, "eh"....etc...
Today at least we can make them to look almost like what we had seen when there. As you all probably know, I spent just about every vacation penny I had in the later half of the 80's decade in Quebec. I just couldn't get enough of the countryside, Alcos, people, Alcos, the food, oh, did I mention Alcos??
This first one I want to present was a rather dusty beast before feeding it into the digital darkroom. This is probably in my top 5 of all time train chases. It began at Thetford Mines, Quebec with this pair of "8700's" built as MLW intended them to be. Of couse, it was the only game in town, being Quebec Central's tri-weekly train from Sherbrooke, so the chase was on for the entire rest of their southbound journey to Sherbrooke. This was a roadside grad at Camp-Comfort. In reality, the twin RS-18's were the only disturbance across the lake. After the caboose passing, it was back into the comfort zone for the locals, especially after the 86' Ranger pick up spun tires and raised dust getting out of town right on the heels of the southbound!