Post your Train shots!
- Thread starter Rick M
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Thank you. Yep, my Nikkor 55-200 DX at 175mm/f8. The lens hasn't worked properly for many years now, producing a sort of clicking noise with the image in the viewfinder jumping up and down when I press the shutter button down halfway. After 3 to 5 seconds it settles down and focuses. So, I have to think ahead as a train approaches to allow enough time for the lens to settle down. It's not an expensive lens, so it's not worth getting fixed. I might replace it someday, though I hesitate because I don't get out to take pictures like I once did.
Ha, yeah, it's gonna be a madhouse trackside as the 4014 makes her tour. She'll likely run on Norfolk Southern (NS) lines in the east. From 1987 to 1991, the NS ran their own massive steam locomotive 1218 on fantrips until their CEO at the time decided the liabilities were too great to shoulder and shut down their steam program which had operated with various locomotives since the late 1960s.
My wife and I rode behind the 1218 and took many pictures of it over the years. This was taken 04/09/1988 at Attalla, AL. [Nikon 2020, Kodachrome]
Clovishound
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I see Nikon hasn't bricked the Viltrox yet. Great lens choice and subsequent composition.
This one hits home "literally" you can see that bridge from the house my wife grew up in
Oh, that's neat! She grew up in a beautiful area.
From this morning, Norfolk Southern's specially painted Southern Railway heritage locomotive at Blythewood, SC. This new junction was named Scout in recognition of a new Scout brand automotive plant nearby. NS also serves a BMW plant in upstate SC with nearby rail junctions named BMW, Bavarian and RPM. 
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[D5100]From Saturday at Cary, NC, an eastbound and westbound passenger train. These are operated by the State of North Carolina. Locomotive 1893 is specially painted in an older scheme to celebrate 30 years of passenger train service. The locomotives formerly operated in Toronto and were sold and rebuilt for North Carolina service. [D5100]
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The "Big Boy" is heading east.
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BF Hammer
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That had been an off-topic discussion on another forum I visit. On June 2nd #4014 will making a stop just about 105 miles from home. A possible day trip if taking another day off work this year isn't a problem. I do have some photos of #4017 preserved at a railroad museum in Green Bay. That was 2015 and I did not have a wide enough lens.
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