Post your Train shots!

[Sandpatch]

Nice catch Sandpatch. I really like the low angle you used for this shot.

Thank you. I wanted to get the old Southern Railway station sign in the shot, so had to stand along the shoulder of the highway which was a bit worrisome. I staked out the spot, figured out my settings and stood in a safe place until train time.

Here's a close up of the sign, battered and faded, but carrying on.

 

[crashton]

I really like finding those artifacts of the past. They make me smile & feel sad for what is lost at the same time.

 

[Sandpatch]

The last vestiges of traditional railroading are becoming harder and harder to find. There are a number of mainlines in my region that have no remaining structures and no signals, leaving a right-of-way nearly bereft of photo props of any kind. Mileposts are about the only thing to work with.

 

[crashton]

Yes we are getting to the place where all locomotives look the same & all signals also have a sameness. I saw this in Fostoria OH along the old long gone Nickle Plate RR right of way. I'd passed this spot many times. but happened to look right as I passed by & saw it.

 

[Sandpatch]

Oooo -- I like that. Definitely worth the stop to get a photo!

 

[Needa]

South Central Florida Express



According to their web site:

"U.S. Sugar is the only sugarcane farming company in the continental United States that transports all of its cane to a sugar factory by railroad."

 

[Needa]

 

[Needa]

The Engineers new glasses aren't in yet!

 

[Skwaz]

Interested to know which composition you guys prefer cheers

 

[Marilynne]

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Interested to know which composition you guys prefer cheers

I like them both. The first shows more of the engine and the second the whole train.

 

[Robin W]

I like both but I think I like the first one best.

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Interested to know which composition you guys prefer cheers

 

[crashton]

Both are very good, but I like the first one more. Well done Skwaz. :encouragement:

 

[Sandpatch]

They're both beautiful. I prefer a bit less roadbed and more sky in my shots, perhaps something like I edited below. (I hope that it was okay for me to use your photo to illustrate.)

 

[Skwaz]

They're both beautiful. I prefer a bit less roadbed and more sky in my shots, perhaps something like I edited below. (I hope that it was okay for me to use your photo to illustrate.)

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no problem Sandpatch I appreciate your input , I prefer the first one but hay ho were all different

 

[Sandpatch]

For certain, both of your images are excellent. You're blessed to have such beautiful trains to photograph. If I tried to capture a photo of this train, I'd be overwhelmed with its beauty and suffer a blurry result from nervously shaking hands.

 

[Sandpatch]

Out of the wayback machine comes an old snapshot from the mid-1980s taken in Montgomery, AL of Seaboard System GE U-30C 1553, ex-L&N. It became CSX 7247 and is long off the roster. I don't know what became of it.

 

[AxeMan - Rick S.]

Was "in town" with the camera and had an hour to kill caught this little gem coming through on the UP Chicago Service Unit - Geneva Subdivision heading east towards Chicago.

 

[crashton]

Out of the wayback machine comes an old snapshot from the mid-1980s taken in Montgomery, AL of Seaboard System GE U-30C 1553, ex-L&N. It became CSX 7247 and is long off the roster. I don't know what became of it.

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Wow love the wayback machine. Great picture, oh man a U boat!

 

[crashton]

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Was "in town" with the camera and had an hour to kill caught this little gem coming through on the UP Chicago Service Unit - Geneva Subdivision heading east towards Chicago.

Great catch Rick. That is one really interesting locomotive. I'd love to see one in my neck of the woods.

 

[Sandpatch]

A few years ago I found a vintage Southern Railway signal bridge and signals standing on the mainline in Lowell, NC, but wasn't able to catch any trains passing beneath it. I stopped by today for the first time since and was thrilled that it's still in service. I had better luck with trains today.