Post your Train shots!

[Sandpatch]

Shot later on the same morning was Southern Railway 4501 (Built 1911). She's currently being restored by the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum and Norfolk Southern to operate again!

 

[STM]

There's a train in this photo, see if you can spot it!

 

[RON_RIP]

I don't see no dumb old train.

 

[STM]

I don't see no dumb old train.

Ah, but for how long did you look at Navannah? It's ok, she's over 21

 

[Sandpatch]

Great shot STM -- perfect composition and with respect and class. Somewhere I have a 35mm slide of a model posing on the tracks. I just happened upon the shoot, so took a quick snapshot. The slide is labeled simply "Nobody I Knew" so that future generations of family members won't be confused.

 

[mikew_RIP]

Like it but that young lady does spoil it,you need to get a clearer view of the trains

 

[dh photography]

 

[Sandpatch]

Another steam shot, this at Frostburg, MD, the western end of the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad. Taken July 2008 in gray overcast. The train has made the climb from Cumberland, MD and the locomotive is being spun on the turntable to point it in the right direction for the return home. This is a fine and authentic ride if anyone is looking for a whiff of coal smoke and a few cinders in their hair.

 

[TedG954]

The Flats Line Revisited

 

[TedG954]

I Travel the Red Line

 

[john*thomas]

 

[Rick M]

Leaving Syracuse,

 

[Sandpatch]

When you mix girls with model railroading, expect a trainload of cute.

 

[Blacktop]

 

[John Braden]

Enoshima Electric Railway, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

 

[Sandpatch]

Caught up with another Norfolk Southern "Heritage Unit", this one painted for the Interstate, a Virginia coal road which toiled in obscurity for most of its life. The light was poor, the locale wasn't grand, the unit was trailing and grimy, but I grabbed a shot because it's a rare treat to see these special locomotives.

 

[Sandpatch]

Super neat shots of the NS 1648 Blacktop. That 11mm focal length creates a terrific perspective! This is a perfect long and lanky locomotive for you to have found. It's an SD-40-2, which a writer once said "looks like a kid wearing tennis shoes three sizes too big". Here's a 3/4 view of one owned by CSX (April 2011, Lumberton, NC, Fuji Velvia, Nikon N2020)

 

[Blacktop]

Thanks Sandpatch. That Tokina 11-16 sure is a neat lens if you can get it under control. Just need to keep it real level otherwise you get some mean distortion that can't even be fixed in LR.

 

[Sandpatch]

Today was a good day at work - I got to see a train. As part of my job, I was out in the woods near the rail connection with my employer and CSX rolled up with their local. All I had to shoot with was a li'l Canon pocket camera, but I had to chance some pictures and this one turned out okay. Not much composition here with the darn wires, but I can hardly complain about being paid and watching a train at the same time.

 

[john*thomas]

Not a train but train related. I've heard about these trestle piers for awhile but didn't know where to find them exactly. These from what I've gathered are from the old line that went from Marietta Ohio to Cincinnati Ohio. I've posted many pics of the old R.R. bridge in Marietta. That is a part of that line.













There are pretty impressive structures in person. I guesstimated the tallest between 70 and 80 feet.