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ID# 53,304 |
Just out of the Parsons, Kansas shops, Katy 200 sports a new Bicentennial paint job including a huge 50 star flag. October 1975.
Photo by Mac Owen
Joseph A. Smith (1895-1978) was an avid collector of railroad photos, sharing many of them with fellow collectors in the Northeast. A former plumbing contractor, he presumably developed his interest in railroads through his father James H. Smith, a trolley motorman in Troy, NY. His extensive collection focused on the lines that once served Troy: Delaware & Hudson, Rutland, Boston & Maine and New York Central.