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THE PERIPATETIC FERROEQUINOLOGIST |
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The Home Page of Gerry Putz |
This site is dedicated to the memory of Charles Valentine Putz (1913 — 1996), Captain, Philadelphia Fire Department. He started it all for me. |
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of trains and related artifacts.
I lived the first 18 years of my life in "South Philly" (Philadelphia, PA) between the B&O's East Side Yard and the PRR's 25th Street Viaduct. Since then I've lived in (not in temporal order) Lowell, MA; Long Beach, CA; Duluth, MN; Miami, FL; and many other places between those across the USA, including 12 years in ChicagoLand and 10.5 years in California. I have many memories of trains, and a few crude prints, from my early years. I discovered I was not alone in my railroad interests when I bought my first issue of TRAINS magazine in July '66 (the one with the Red Arrow Brill Bullet on the cover) at a little shop on Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA. I began seriously photographing trains on "The Day Before Amtrak," April 30, 1971, in Chicago, IL, and haven't stopped since. Initially, I used color print film in "point and shoot" cameras, switched to slide film in April '73, to a 35 mm SLR camera in January '75, and to digital imaging in September '00. I have most of the prints and negatives, all of the slides (over 14,440 of them) and all of the digital images, along with databases for the slides and digital images. I have scanned the prints and negatives into digital files, am scanning the slides, adding new digital images to my collection, and maintaining a database for them. |
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1. Heritage Images (Scanned from prints, negatives and slides) (Now Featuring 1984) 2. Recent Images (Usually made within the previous two or three weeks) |
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Browse around. I hope you enjoy what you see and come back again. I intend to update this site every week or two. |
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Number of hits since since August 20, 2006 |
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Site Updated: November 16, 2008 All images and text posted on this site are copyrighted as the property of Gerard J. Putz. |
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********************************************************************************************************************************* Photography is a Putz Family thing. Here are links to my children's sites: Katie Putz: http://www.flickr.com/photos/katieputz/ Dan Putz: http://www.dputz.net Karl Putz: http://ringroadphoto.com/rings.htm *********************************************************************************************************************************
Interesting power was leading an Amtrak train from Milwaukee, WI, entering the north side of Union Staiton, Chicago, IL, in May '72. GM&O's only E8M #100A was built as B&O EA #52 in '37. It was transferred to the Chicago & Alton and renumbered #100A in '40, then GM&O #100A in '47. It was rebuilt in '53. CMSTP&P E9B #35B was built as #205B in '53. ********************************************************************************************************************************************** |
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