Pennsylvania Railroad 4-4-0 American Locomotive No. 435 with Passenger Car, January 5, 1900, Johnstown, Penna.

To give credit where it’s due, the below verbatim captioned information on this photograph is from railroadpicturearchives.net”

“Locomotives. Here is an image entitled “The Stone Bridge At Johnstown.” Prominent here is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #435, a D-11A (4-4-0) “American” built in the Altoona Machine Shops in June of 1885 and retired in May of 1913 after 28 years of service. It’s pulling the photographer’s train that’s parked on the stone-arched Conemaugh River Bridge ~ the very same Bridge which damned-up the surging waters during the “Johnstown Flood” on 31 May 1889. Photo by D. Sargent Bell.”

The original photograph was originally part of the Thomas C. Ayers Railroad Photograph Collection.

This image was almost certainly taken on a large format glass plate camera, probably 8×10 or larger size, as flexible safety film had not been invented.  The original print on the website is the full image of the photographer’s negative, while the photo from the Ernest Robert’s Collection is cropped.  This is one of the oldest photographs in the Ernest Robert’s collection.  Mr. Roberts evidently purchased a print of the original negative for his own collection, as the image quality is excellent for its time.

Image is a high resolution scan of an 11×14 print, therefore the original negative is unavailable for printing.  An inkjet print will be provided from the digital file if ordered.

Ernest Robert’s collection of railroad photographs, on loan from his daughter, provides a rare opportunity for rail fans to purchase silver halide photographic prints from many of his large format negatives–some taken by him and others purchased from photographers and collectors. Other collection images requiring digital restoration will yield inkjet prints.  Original prints in the collection have been copied digitally under rigorous lighting conditions providing inkjet prints of the highest possible quality.

See coloradoinblackandwhite.com in the coming weeks for many more Ernest Roberts Railroad Photography images.

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