Today’s #ThrowbackThursday doesn’t feature stunning, high-quality images, but it’s one that I hope you will enjoy nonetheless. I rummaged through my personal collection, and selected two of my earliest pictures. Please remember that they were taken by an eight-year-old kid using his parents’ trusty Kodak Instamatic camera.
Image one is a picture of the Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad’s first caboose. The handsome wooden bay window caboose was parked behind Boone’s original Hy-Vee store. It was just before 1983’s Pufferbilly Days celebration, and a volunteer (I want to say it was Grayson Clagett) was inside doing some painting. He took the time to show an awestruck kid around the caboose.
The second image is from the first day of train rides at the Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad. At the throttle is Charlie Goldsworth, giving a friendly wave. That day’s train consisted of this borrowed Chicago & North Western diesel locomotive, a former C&NW dining car, an open-air boxcar, and the little red caboose from the first photograph.
