BERMUDA RAILWAY --- DOUBLE-TRACK SWITCH POINT at the Old RIDDELL'S BAY STATION

Guy with a bicycle waits by the siding / platform. Nice view of the tracks on what looks like a bed of sand-filled rock. (I don't know how they actually graded and laid the tracks). Nice end-on view of two different styles of cars. There's a station sign in the distance, but it can't be seen in this photo --- and unfortunately, it's blurred out when looked at under a 'scope. :(

Early on, astute flickr member "basic country bumkins" took a serious and honorable stab at nailing down the location as the TERMINUS AT SOMERSET by matching certain features in the above image with another identified photo taken in 1933 and published elsewhere. See his detailed evaluation at this comment below : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/3304637454/#comment721...

However (!), another flickr watcher from Bermuda, WilliamCooke60, felt led to check this out against his own list of possibilities, and --- while eliminating the similar-looking old station locations from his list --- he carefully concludes that this is RIDDELL'S BAY STATION, the stop for WARWICK'S CAMP. See his original comment here : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/3304637454/#comment721...

I would like to thank both Basic Country Bumpkin and WilliamCooke60 for their time and effort move things along to making a serious ID of this unfortunately now-gone part of Bermuda's colorful and interesting past.

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Now long gone, you used to be able to "ride the rails" in Old Bermuda from 1931 to 1948.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Railway

".......It is not easy to get a picture of the wide range of people connected to the railway, from the workers who built it, to the distant British capitalists who financed it, to the managers who ran it, it to the drivers and conductors actually operated the trains....." www.bermudarailway.net/then/people/people.html

If the above is true, I hope another image linked below is of historic interest to fans of the old Bermuda Railway. Go there, and hit the ALL SIZES button for a nice look at a one of the mechanics (or Engineers), and what looks like a uniformed conductor with gear bag. Not to mention it's a great close view of two types of early cars... including the "1st" on on the line ! : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/3297978149/in/set-7215...

Also see : www.bermudarailway.net/

Living in Okinawa, Japan over the years, I sure missed having a Railroad. Okinawa had an extensive rail network that handled over 3,000,000 riders a year. It was destroyed during the Battle of Okinawa, and never rebuilt. To this day, Okinawa remains the only Prefecture in Japan without a Rail Road system.

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From a ca1931-36 series of amateur glass lantern-slides taken by an America tourist on a trip around the world. The photos were developed, printed on glass, and hand colored by the T. ENAMI STUDIO in YOKOHAMA, JAPAN.

This World-Traveling tourist, like many others on the Cruise Ship, saved their undeveloped pictures of the countries they visited until reaching Japan. At this time, Japan still had one of the best reputations for high-quality processing and coloring of the work of tourists passing through, and it was also convenient to get everything done VERY CHEAPLY and put in order before reaching North America and Home.

Although the studio's founder, T. ENAMI had died in early 1929, his son TAMOTSU continued to sell the images his father had taken from 1892 until his death, as well as processing and coloring the work of tourists from around the world. The studio came to an end when it was fire-bombed in WW2.

For more about T. ENAMI and the later work of his son TAMOTSU, see : www.t-enami.org/services

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Taken on: February 23, 2009

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