Gary Rich

Lake Valley, SK grain elevator, Jan 2007. Copyright by Gary Rich.
Lake Valley, SK grain elevator, Jan 2007. Copyright by Gary Rich.

“I have worked on different railroads for 40 years in Kansas and Colorado. I worked on the Santa Fe Railroad in Kansas. I was a brakeman/conductor. I worked branch lines. We served a lot of grain elevators. I lived in a small town that had two old wood grain elevators and one concrete elevator.”

“I took a lot of railroad photos. During the 1990’s, someone needed to preserve some of the older grain elevators. My first trip to Canada was 1992. I returned during the 1990’s. I made one giant trip in January 2007. This was a grain elevator photographic trip. Oh yes, I did manage to get a few trains, too.”

“I have used 35mm film cameras, 2 1/4 film cameras, 4 X 5 film cameras and digital cameras.”

“Photography is one way that we can save the past. Here one day, gone the next day. How many times have we passed up a subject – “I will photograph another day” – then it is gone.”

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