A better title for this post might be, “They look, but do not see.”
Several years ago, I purchased a couple of digital scans of photos from glass-plate negatives in the Bradley-Hahn Collection at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, this collection is not digitized, and I picked the images based on a written description only.
One of the images was a city scene that showed no trains, to my disappointment; or so I thought. Thus the image sat unused in my digital collection for years, until recently while looking for more “Wordless Wednesday” material I looked a little closer…
Bradley-Hahn Collection, RR Museum of PA
The neat thing about these old glass-plate negatives is the fine detail they contain:
Bradley-Hahn Collection, RR Museum of PA
Behold! The S&NY business office at Towanda, located in the Towanda Opera House.
Bradley-Hahn Collection, RR Museum of PA
And around the corner on Washington Street, the LV-S&NY freight house with a Boston & Albany boxcar on the siding.
So, there was railroad content in the photo after all. I just didn’t look close enough. There is a lesson there somewhere…
Same corner in the modern day via Google:
Google Earth
(Note: No “WW” or “TT” last week, this week, and possibly next week due to family commitments and the NMRA MidCentral Region Convention in Cincinnati.)
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