SanJuanPacific
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Hello everyone and welcome to my personal screenshot thread. I've decided to start some fun little lore about my own fictional and the fictionals of others, and since real railroad lore is a little more demanding, I figured I'd start small and introduce the photographers of this grand fictional system. I welcome you to the Pennyworth Archive, a collection of railroading photography and films that span eight decades and three generations of men who couldn't escape the railroading itch. The first, Chris Pennyworth Sr., would take pictures of trains while he would travel for work, filming trains all across the American West as he traveled filming advertisements for various customers. However, it wouldn't be until his son, Chris Pennyworth Jr., better known among friends and family as "Train Crazy Chris", that the hobby would grow. All through the 1930's the the father-son duo would travel together, taking snapshots of railroading at various locales from the Texas Steppes to Nevada's vast deserts. When Chris Jr. went off to war in 1942, his father would patiently await his return at home, and through it all Chris would survive. The first film Chris would take when he returned from Italy will be the subject of our very first video installment, but the very first portion of the vast Pennyworth Collection will be posted here, following a short freight along the Minuscule branch of the Columbia, Glade Creek and Western, as it was in early 1938. The country is slowly shaking the great depression, and this was the first dedicated freight to traverse the branch in nearly six years. Chris Jr. is 19, and absorbed the scenes in jubilation while his father rolled the film.
A meet between a very unlikely group of trains on the Minuscule branch; a scheduled passenger and a full-fledged freight. Up until very recently only mining trains and the occasional mixed freight would call on this backwater branch line. This is the very first meet between these two train types on the Minuscule Branch in almost 10 years.
Lush green hills rise behind the short freight as it makes a gentle 25mph on the way to Minuscule.
The big 2-8-0 is working hard as it struggles with the 2% grades on the way up the mountains. Consolidations like this were common on many railroads all across the United States. Built as general-purpose freight haulers, no work was beneath them, and No. 75 was no exception.
Crossing the bridge at the top of the grade. Unfortunately, the Pennyworth duo were unable to catch the train again.
More coming soon! The next collection will feature a very special Nevada fictional...
A meet between a very unlikely group of trains on the Minuscule branch; a scheduled passenger and a full-fledged freight. Up until very recently only mining trains and the occasional mixed freight would call on this backwater branch line. This is the very first meet between these two train types on the Minuscule Branch in almost 10 years.
Lush green hills rise behind the short freight as it makes a gentle 25mph on the way to Minuscule.
The big 2-8-0 is working hard as it struggles with the 2% grades on the way up the mountains. Consolidations like this were common on many railroads all across the United States. Built as general-purpose freight haulers, no work was beneath them, and No. 75 was no exception.
Crossing the bridge at the top of the grade. Unfortunately, the Pennyworth duo were unable to catch the train again.
More coming soon! The next collection will feature a very special Nevada fictional...
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