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Steam Specials events featured in TRAINS magazine's special issue "STEAM TODAY"
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You'll find many photos taken during one of our events in this special publication, including pp. 52-55 (CPR 2816, May 2006 - 6 photos by 4 participants), pp. 62-71, and p. 79 (QJs, June 2007 and L&C 40, Feb. 2006). The cover image was taken by regular participant Steve Tidwell.
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PM 1225 event featured in "Railfan & Railroad" magazine "Markers" column
 | "One of the best photography events I have ever attended . . . fantastic scenes with the Rosies and the scouts. This is the kind of stuff that I have never shot before and really gives depth to a photo collection.
One of the best bargains of the trip was the "caboose pass" that gave a photographer about 20 minutes alone in a caboose with a full crew decked out in period dress. Everything modern was stripped out of both the Pere Marquette and Ann Arbor cabeese, and the resulting shots are timeless . . . lunch in the caboose also yielded timeless photographs, from the steam rising from the cooking pan to the percolated coffee to the jams and pickled eggs on the table. And the food was delicious!
It was an absolutely incredible weekend. The depth of the photography goes well past the bazillion runby-type events. I'm still trying to sort out the A+ photos from the A photos. B, C, D, and F photos were almost impossible to come by." - Steve Barry, Editor, "Railfan & Railroad" magazine.
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PM 1225 event featured in the Owosso "Argus-Press"
 | “We're here because we want to know what it looked like when the Pere Marquette was operating,” said James Gunning of Orlando, Fla., one of three directors of HTP. “We've attempted to create vignettes of the Pere Marquette's working days.”
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Huckleberry Railroad event featured in the Flint (MI) Journal
 | "They came from around the world to put one blue-sky day on film -- tripods dug into snowbanks along an icy railroad track, flashing enough camera gear to make any paparazzo proud.
The object of all their lens' desire was no fashion model or Hollywood star -- It was Engine 152, the 1920s-era steam locomotive . . . "
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