Post your Train shots!

[Sandpatch]

I learned another very important lesson starting with yesterday's first photograph -- carry a spare SD Card in your kit. We set up for our first photo and my D5100 displayed an 'E' and the photo showed 'Demo'. "Oh, darn*", said I, "my memory card is in my computer at the house". (* not my exact word)

With train approaching, my wife quickly opened her Nikon P100, extracted her SD Card and handed it to me. Problem solved and lesson learned.

 

[Marilynne]

I learned another very important lesson starting with yesterday's first photograph -- carry a spare SD Card in your kit. We set up for our first photo and my D5100 displayed an 'E' and the photo showed 'Demo'. "Oh, darn*", said I, "my memory card is in my computer at the house". (* not my exact word)

With train approaching, my wife quickly opened her Nikon P100, extracted her SD Card and handed it to me. Problem solved and lesson learned.

I always have a backup SD card and battery in my bag. You just never know. Quick thinking wife!!

 

[Carroll]

7-shot photomerge in PS CC, handheld.

This Union Pacific train is unloading coal at the far end of the train at the Kansas City Power & Light Plant at Montrose, Missouri. Must be in radio contact with the crew unloading, as the train would move ever so slowly as they emptied a car. (My guess) Difficult to get to another location to improve the shot.

Looks like it got a little hot on the leading locomotive...


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[Carroll]

This locomotive just sits on a spur off the main line for the Union Pacific Coal trains that run to the KCPL Power Plant at Montrose, Missouri. This spur is at LaDue, Missouri, just a few miles East of the Power Plant. The train in the shot above had to be almost a quarter of a mile long...so depending on the grade, or failure of a locomotive, this Helper Engine is available. I know it is silly, but it reminds me of the Thomas the Tank Engine show for kids. Naturally, as an old man, I never watch that show. :wink-new:

As I was taking my images, I could hear the diesel engine cycling through whatever stages they cycle through (My guess)...maybe compressors and such turning on and off. You could tell this locomotive was ready to go in an instant. Well, as instant as a locomotive can be. lol

This was taken the same day as the one above. This Helper is on the same line.


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[John W. Davies]

Over the weekend one of the newest locomotives on the national network was allowed to come onto
preservation metals.

Here we see 68007 undertaking the token exchange,

68007 - beast! On token exchange by John W. Davies, on Flickr

My first weekend out with the D5300

 

[Sandpatch]

Over the weekend one of the newest locomotives on the national network was allowed to come onto
preservation metals. Here we see 68007 undertaking the token exchange, ...

Nice shot John! Your D5300 is in good hands. By "token exchange", do you mean the earliest system of train control where trains had to stop and gain (and relinquish) a token to enter each block? If so, that is a wonderful tribute to railroad history. (For non-railroaders, a block is a defined section of track. With one token for each block, collisions were theoretically impossible.)

 

[Sandpatch]

This locomotive just sits on a spur off the main line for the Union Pacific Coal trains that run to the KCPL Power Plant at Montrose, Missouri.

Thanks Ozarkite -- that's a brute of a locomotive. It's looking a little tired and some research showed me how time flies -- UP 6256 is already 24 Years Old! Once the hottest thing on the road, it's an EMD SD60M packing 3800 HP.

 

[Carroll]

Thanks Ozarkite -- that's a brute of a locomotive. It's looking a little tired and some research showed me how time flies -- UP 6256 is already 24 Years Old! Once the hottest thing on the road, it's an EMD SD60M packing 3800 HP.

Are you saying that *old* engine could outpull my Silverado? LOL

 

[John Braden]

Kissing cousins.... A pair of East Japan Railway train sets coupled at Tokyo Station on their way to Morioka, where the red one, an E6 Shinkansen bound for Akita will uncouple its E5 cousin, headed for Shin-Aomori station on the Tohoku Shinkansen.

 

[Gerb]

Here's a single Grand Trunk Western engine working the yard in Battle Creek, MI on Dec 28, 2014. A CN engine is in the background (GTW was purchased by CN several years ago)

 

[nikonpup]

must be fun getting paid to do wheelies.

 

[nikonpup]

bent not broken.

 

[Lovin Our Life]

Spent the Summer in S.W. Colorado and was lucky enough to ride and shoot the Durango/Silverton Narrow Gauge RR.

 

[RON_RIP]

This one taken in 1982. How come we always want to hang out the window as we go around a curve.?

 

[Lovin Our Life]

Great Ride wasn't it.

 

[RON_RIP]

It was amazing. If I had to do it again, I would start at Silverton. Fantastic town. The portrait of Lily Langtry at the hotel blew me away.

 

[dh photography]

 

[nikonpup]

surveyor: "just follow the cow, we will be fine".

 

[skater]

So, somehow I've never posted any of my shots in this thread, despite loving trains and reading Trains and Model Railroader religiously every month. For my first shot here, I'll post something very sad:

GG-1 #4876. The B&O Railroad Museum has it, but it's in pretty rough shape as you can see. It has nothing to do with their mission; they only have it because they're the closest rail museum to DC, and this was the engine that crashed through DC's Union Station's wall, only to be cut up, reassembled, and put back into service.

They should hold a going-away ceremony for it, then get it scrapped. It's just rusting away where it is. And, as the guide at the museum pointed out, there are far better-preserved examples floating around. I have pictures of some of them, in fact.

My next pictures should be happier...they pretty much have to be.

 

[SteveL54]