Post your Train shots!

[Sandpatch]

More old sentinels falling by the week it seems. I wish I'd have taken more picture of them. Once they're gone they're gone.

Well said Chuck. I made two other trips to Lane, hoping to get shots of a train beneath the signal bridge on a sunny day. CSX failed to produce both times. Lane is a long way from home. I never returned for a third attempt and had to settle for a grubby shot taken on the same day I took the signal shot.

 

[crashton]

Still a great shot Sandpatch. Certainly a keeper. :encouragement:

 

[Sandpatch]

It's funny that as I go through my slides, when I see "Ektachrome" on the cardboard slide frame, the images are nearly always taken on heavily overcast days. Kodachrome was my standard, a 64 ASA film*, with excellent characteristics and was easy to find at most K-Marts, but on gray days it was hopelessly slow in capturing moving trains. Ektachrome film was sold everywhere and was available in faster speeds (100, 200 and 400 as I recall?) so was my alternative. It worked in a pinch, but it was grainier and lacked Kodachrome's color depth I thought. I always threw a few rolls of Ektachrome in my kit just to have some on hand when the rains came.

* In latter years, Kodak produced a 200 ASA Kodachrome which was superb on overcast days. It was hard to find on retailer shelves however.

 

[crashton]

I shot much more Ektachrome when I wanted color. Reason being I could buy an E6 kit & process it myself. No doing that with Kodachrome.

 

[Sandpatch]

I shot much more Ektachrome when I wanted color. Reason being I could buy an E6 kit & process it myself. No doing that with Kodachrome.

Oh, that's so cool. I had a friend who did the same and had a lot of fun with it all. The last film I shot was Fujichrome, which I'm guessing is E-6 too. When Kodak exited its Kodachrome processing, I remember sending my remaining rolls to Duane's in Kansas.

At that point I quit photography altogether for a number of years. Not Nikon's D5100 caught my eye did I find affordability and suitable quality in a DSLR.

 

[crashton]

Had a lot of fun processing those slides for sure. As I recall the temperature was something like plus or minus 1 degree. You couldn't be sloppy or it really showed. I tried doing Cibachrome printing too. Really enjoyed that, but cost was a big negative.

I had a Nikon D5100, nice camera that I should have kept.

 

[BlueThumb]

Taken On The Lickey Incline (Thats Between Birmingham & Worcester; UK) about 6 years ago for OUR oversee's friends
Must say i love those Shots of the American RailRoad Engines

 

[Sandpatch]

My Dad built a basement darkroom for my middle brother and I was able to use it too when I was old enough. My Dad was skilled at home handywork, and the darkroom had running hot and cold water, a large sink, Formica countertops, full electrical and even a red light outside so that people would know not to enter when it was on. My brother added an FM stereo radio he found in someone's trash. It had tubes which glowed, so we had to use it with care.

We did b&w only, but did a lot of it. The darkroom got a ton of use over the years. When I'm done with my slide scanning, I'm looking forward to working through my b&w negatives.

Isn't it neat that when you smell anything that resembles darkroom chemicals, you're instantly transported back to those days in the darkroom?

 

[crashton]

Wow great memories Sandpatch. My darkroom was nothing to compare to yours. It is funny how smells can bring you back in time. When I smell dill, I'm back at grandma's house. When I smell hot brakes I'm trying to slow enough for turn 12 at Nelson Ledges.

 

[Sandpatch]

From July 1989, NKP chuffs west from Asheville, NC during the National Railway Historical Society's annual meet.

 

[Sandpatch]

As seen in the above slide, NKP 587 took its train west from Asheville to Bulls Gap, TN and return. Following it, the first slide below is south of Marshall, NC crossing the French Broad and the second shot is at Newport, TN crossing the Pigeon River.

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[Sandpatch]

Winona, AZ is known as Darling on the Santa Fe and it's a great location for photography. To the right is Humphrey's Peak at 12,633 FT. [Kodachrome, Nikon N2020, March 1997]


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[crashton]

Great capture Sandpatch. That could be a post card. :encouragement:

 

[Sandpatch]

Further west is Kingman, AZ (You see Amarillo, Gallup, New Mexico, Flagstaff, Arizona, Don't forget Winona, Kingman, Barstow, San Bernandino .....) where we find a westbound passing the station. [Kodachrome, Nikon N2020, March 1997]

 

[Sandpatch]

Great capture Sandpatch. That could be a post card. :encouragement:

Thank you. It's so beautiful in NM and AZ that I don't think it's possible to take a bad picture.

 

[Sandpatch]

There are several Norfolk Southern locomotives I'd like to get a picture of and one is their 1111, aka "The Barcode Unit". I thought I might get it this morning, but this was all I could manage. Maybe next time …..

 

[Sandpatch]

Sometimes ya gotta take what you get and be happy with it. Case in point is this March 1997 shot at Topock, AZ where the Santa Fe mainline crosses the Colorado River into CA. After a long wait, we heard motors to the west and anticipated a nice shot of the mighty Santa Fe in action. Instead, a puny three car local appeared and was gone. Oh well.


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[Sandpatch]

I was looking through my roster shots and discovered that the Family Lines once fielded an unheralded Bar Code Unit. [September 1984, Kodachrome, Nikon N2020]​

 

[Sandpatch]

Delaware & Hudson (former E-L) Alco C-424 451 at Hudson, PA in October 1981.

 

[crashton]

Great capture Sandpatch. I'm a real fan of Alco locomotives, the honorary steam engine with as much smoke they put out.