Post your Train shots!
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Travel in style across America — 6 guests — starting at $6,000 per day.
One example of pricing from http://http://www.chapelhillrail.com/
One example of pricing from http://http://www.chapelhillrail.com/
Bikerbrent
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Oh! So much better with the cell tower gone! Nice photo of a train car I would love a ride in. Only damaged by the modern car in front of it!
Wow, that's a breathtaking fare, about $4/Minute.
Back in '83 I paid $50 for a 120 Mile day trip with friends from Newark, NJ to Bay Head, NJ and return aboard Lehigh Valley 353, built 1916. We had a fine time that day; here we are at Bay Head. Pullman Clover Colony ahead of LV 353 also made the trip.
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To beat the heat here, I sometimes I think a surplus Apollo space suit and portable air conditioning pack would be just the ticket.
Bikerbrent
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To beat the heat here, I sometimes I think a surplus Apollo space suit and portable air conditioning pack would be just the ticket.
Hey! If you can find the suits at a reasonable price, great idea Sandpatch!
Today's picture is of a Jersey Central caboose that's 160 times smaller than the real thing, i.e. N Scale. The caboose is 2-3/8" long.
I had some fun with this picture, taking it with my late father's Nikkor f/3.5 55mm Macro (circa 1970) coupled to my D5100. It's such a sweet lens and is as tight and clear as ever. Settings are by the seat of the pants, but it's fairly easy to hone in on the right settings. This was taken at f/32 @ 8 Seconds. Focusing is manual too, but my D5100 illuminates a green dot in the viewfinder when it feels the focus is correct. My father also bought the M2 Extension Tube for it, which allows extreme close ups. I didn't use the M2 for this shot.
Anyway, it's neat to play around with the lens and God bless Nikon for keeping the F-Mount system intact through these many decades.
I had some fun with this picture, taking it with my late father's Nikkor f/3.5 55mm Macro (circa 1970) coupled to my D5100. It's such a sweet lens and is as tight and clear as ever. Settings are by the seat of the pants, but it's fairly easy to hone in on the right settings. This was taken at f/32 @ 8 Seconds. Focusing is manual too, but my D5100 illuminates a green dot in the viewfinder when it feels the focus is correct. My father also bought the M2 Extension Tube for it, which allows extreme close ups. I didn't use the M2 for this shot.
Anyway, it's neat to play around with the lens and God bless Nikon for keeping the F-Mount system intact through these many decades.
Bikerbrent
Senior Member
Nice photo Sandpatch. Some of the older Nikon equipment was really great.
Early on, I sold some of my Dad's vintage Nikkor lenses on eBay after reading that their full frame design wouldn't work well with medium format cameras like my D5100. I learned later that wasn't totally accurate advice. The one lens of his that I most regret selling was his 35mm "wide angle" that would have made a wonderful 50mm prime lens on my D5100.
Of course, working with various manual settings at home is fun, but that might not be the case outside in the hot sun with gnats and mosquitoes flying about.
This morning's CSX L647 rolling south at Camden, SC. A somewhat backlit shot, but it was best to be out before the summer heat cranked up. Typical eastern railroad scene with overgrown vegetation encroaching everywhere. I often stomp down tall weeds, but I'd need power equipment to take down this stand.
