John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library

Discussion in 'General' started by palallin, Mar 27, 2020.

  1. palallin

    palallin Member

    Last edited: Mar 27, 2020
  2. WindsorSpring

    WindsorSpring Member

    Could these be another source for "Where is it Contest" photos? Rules would have t0 change, of course because the whole scene is needed to judge the location.
    (Our scanners have clearly done a much better job with the Frisco Archive slides! Congratulations to them!)
     
  3. Joe Lovett

    Joe Lovett Member

    I agree with you George, the Archives are a real treasure that can't be beat. I look through the photos quite often trying to find the Where is it Contest. Sometimes I stop and gaze at one of the photos looking at all of the details. It's a great place to find details to put on a layout.

    Thank you to the members who manage the Archives and this website!!!

    Joe
     
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  4. frisco1522

    frisco1522 Staff Member Staff Member

    I want to know where all the steam images went. I saw them years ago and there were many photos from the late 30s of depots, trains and locations. Where are all of those negatives?
     
  5. WindsorSpring

    WindsorSpring Member

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/albums takes you to the main page for the photo library. There are two pages of albums presented for many railroads. A quick look at a couple (Erie, CNJ, Big Four) showed some steam, old depots and old-time automobiles. Alas, the Frisco album on those pages is the one linked to above: no steam.
     
  6. meteor910

    meteor910 2009 Engineer of the Year Staff Member Frisco.org Supporter

    Lots of pics of receding track!
     
  7. palallin

    palallin Member

    The MoPac archive is more extensive.
     
  8. patrick flory

    patrick flory Member

    Very clunky negotiating photo to photo.

    If there aren’t any steam I won’t bother
     
  9. yardmaster

    yardmaster Administrator Staff Member Administrator Frisco.org Supporter

    I’ll say this: the entire library is excellent for anyone wanting to get the texture, look and feel of railroading, depot areas, trackside industries, and communities in the 30s and 40s..

    Accordingly, I have a pretty good portfolio of pics as inspiration for when I finally finish tearing down my old layout and get the gumption to start new construction.
     
  10. Hi Steve
    Thanks for posting the
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/albums/72157640360511664
    A few years back I did not have much luck trying to get online
    digital information from Barringer Library.
    That has now changed in at least two ways:
    1. Your Barringer flickr did give pictures.
    2. The main Barringer Library webpage now is doing some projects to provide
    some online digital file information. I will experiment with that later and post any positive-ness for use on frisco.org.

    Getting back to 1.
    I just tried your flicr Barringer website and found a picture of Mountain Grove Depot.
    I tried to "save as" the picture into my computer's files. It did as long as the picture was not zoom in. Then I tied to attach it into forums depots. At first it did not work; the file had extension problems.
    Looking for a workable way, I brought the attachment picture up on a yahoo email new composition as an attachment to that. That did attach. Next I opened the attachment and I could see link box at the bottom of the computer screen. I opened that link box and the picture showed. From there I copied the picture and then brought it over to frisco.org depot forums. I could paste that picture into a new posting at depot forums without extension problems. It looked like this:
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    MountainGroveDepotFrisco [​IMG]

    picture from
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/albums/72157640360511664

    -----------
    This proved that https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/albums/72157640360511664 is a source of information to put pictures into frisco.org forums.

    Next 2.
    2. As I said, the main Barringer Library webpage now is doing some projects to provide some online digital file information. I will experiment with that and post any positive-ness for use on frisco.org forums.

    Let's hope that Barriger Library will become a productive source for our needs.
    I will also see if there are searching methods to provide at least some good info
    without being to clunky negotiating from data to other data.

    ==
     
  11. frisco1522

    frisco1522 Staff Member Staff Member

    I can't figure out where all the Barriger images from the 30s-early 40s have gone. Years ago I saw lots of photos he took from the back of the train all along the Frisco in about 1935-37. None of them show up on the web site. I've gotten no answer to questions about his earlier prints/negs.
     
  12. klrwhizkid

    klrwhizkid Administrator Staff Member Administrator Frisco.org Supporter

    Charles. First, the name is Barriger, not Barringer
    If you go back to the flickr account and click on an image so it opens large on your screen, notice the down arrow in the lower right corner. If you click on that icon, it will allow you to pick the resolution of the image you would like to download to your computer.

    As far as downloading them and putting them on Frisco.org, DO NOT DO IT. The images are copyrighted.

    BTW, here is a link to the greater Barriger Library of images: https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/albums/with/72157640360511664
     
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