Post your Train shots!

[crashton]

I miss the days when trains had a caboose on the rear. If you missed the engine you still had a chance at a nice shot of the caboose. Now it's a picture of a FRED on the end. It just ain't the same.

 

[Sandpatch]

I miss the days when trains had a caboose on the rear. If you missed the engine you still had a chance at a nice shot of the caboose. Now it's a picture of a FRED on the end. It just ain't the same.

The human element is gone as well, a victim of the FRED. Most everyone enjoyed a friendly wave from the caboose. [About 1975, Plus-X, Nikkormat FTn]

 

[Sandpatch]

From 40 years ago in October 1985 at Montgomery, AL. In the background is Montgomery Union Station and its trainshed, both of which survive today. Crews disliked the steps on these, calling them "shin barkers". It was hard to climb up without barking your shin on the second step. [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

 

[Sandpatch]

Coal train 786 from today at Blythewood, SC. A third locomotive was pushing at the rear. [D5100]

 

[crashton]

Great catch Sandpatch. I wonder how things will look after the UP-NS merger. If that happens.

 

[Needa]

Great catch Sandpatch. I wonder how things will look after the UP-NS merger. If that happens.

Maybe NS will get some color.

 

[Sandpatch]

Great catch Sandpatch. I wonder how things will look after the UP-NS merger. If that happens.

Thank you Chuck. Looking at the picture again, I need to go back when autumn colors are present. Those trees would look great then.

 

[Sandpatch]

Maybe NS will get some color.

Someone has suggested that with UP running the show, NS's much diminished steam program might be reenergized. It'd be great to see 611 and 1218 back on the mainlines.

 

[Sandpatch]

Today is Veterans Day in the U.S.. In 2012 Norfolk Southern specially painted SD-60E 6920 to honor their service. Here it is at Columbia, SC, 01/12/2014. [D5100]

 

[Sandpatch]

From 08/27/2022 at Columbia, SC, a solid train of BMW's is headed to the Port of Charleston for export. That bird is in no mood for train watching. [D5100]

 

[Sandpatch]

A time exposure from 08/19/1989 at Anniston, AL. Not wanting to spend the money on the Nikon attachment to take time exposures with my N2020, I figured if I shorted the two contacts it accessed, I could keep the shutter open. It worked, though it was kind of a pain with my tiny alligator clips in the dark. [Kodachrome]

 

[Sandpatch]

From this morning at Columbia, SC, a CSX local train in dappled light and Norfolk Southern's specially painted Delaware & Hudson "Heritage" locomotive. I'd not seen this one before. [D5100]