The Bill Darrough Story

The Bill Darrough Story As shown at Winterail 2007 The photos in this show were taken by Bill Darrough and/or are from the collection of Bill and Jack Darrough. This is an amazing collection of photographs. In a conversation with Bill Darrough's brother Jack in August of 1988 Jack said, "Bill died in 1942, he was 22 years-old. He suffered from severe teenage acne and they had treated it with massive doses of radiation, which at the time was thought harmless. The radiation cleared his acne but Bill died of cancer." According to Jack, he and Bill came from a railroad family. The members of a railroaders family were then given passes and could travel free on the nation's passenger trains. The period that Bill lived in was near the climax of the era of steam railroading in this country. Jack said Bill would pack two suitcases, one with film and the other with sandwiches and the young man would go on trips alone photographing trains. In my opinion had he lived he would have been one of the greatest railroad photographers of the twentieth century. It is an amazing story and so my son Ken and I are trying to tell it. This 20 minute quicktime seven video breaks my rules for this podcast. Generally, I plan to keep these videos to less than 15 minutes in length. I would like to have as many of these videos as I can short enough to be viewed on a coffee break. Technorati Tags: Trains , Railroads , Railroading , Esspee , train video , trackwarrants , Bill Darrough , Track Warrants , ssloansjca

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This episode was published on Apr 23, 2007.

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