Prototype Challenge "Transportation" Ending Monday, 16 June 2008

[Colonel]

1. All challenges close at 12 midnight (24:00 hours) Eastern Standard Time on Monday 16 June 2008, and will be noted with a "Time's up!" post within the thread.
2. Please use the challenge as a motive to take a new photograph rather than using a photograph that you have taken in the past.
3. Challenges are open to everyone, have fun!!
4. Though not required, commenting on other peoples pictures is encouraged.
5. Only one image per participant so please choose the image carefully.
6. Any posts with images taken before the commencement of the challenge will be deleted.
7. For photos to be eligible they must be taken (approximately) between the 14th June and 16th June 2008.
8. Ensure dates and times on your camera are correct.

[NSFan14]

"Tranportation" huh?...Maybe like Intermodals getting hauled by a train?

[BuddyBurton]

"Tranportation" huh?...Maybe like Intermodals getting hauled by a train?

Or even a Shuttle rocket booster getting hauled and......OOOPS!!! CSX derailed IT!!!! :D

[Colonel]

"Tranportation" huh?...Maybe like Intermodals getting hauled by a train? limited by your imagination :)

[HemiAdda2d]

Road (I-15)
River (Missouri River)
Rail (BNSF Helena-Great Falls line)

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/930/3_modes_of_trans.jpg

[mikado]

Sometimes Mother Nature gets in the way. But this time it was minor, just a tree across the tracks.
Ky Railway Museum 6-14-08

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/uploads/7081/Ky_Railway_Museum_6-14-08_010.jpg

[NSFan14]

Yea after a hard stop,Rush of adreline,20 min wait & possiblty of poision ivy on my hands...We finally got that tree out of the way!

[HemiAdda2d]

I hate poison ivy. I don't miss it one iota.

[campp]

Transporting grains to a hungry city, a Westfield unloader is used to empty hopper HS 23075:
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1379/HS_23075_Jun_2008.JPG

[NSFan14]

http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj205/ALM1992/Copyof6-14-08058.jpg

This is all I could come up with this weekend. Im riding on the Vestbule at KRM snapping pictures of L&N #152

[Mr. Train]

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/500/100_15391.JPG

Three modes of transport at Chadwick
Pickup truck
Container on a rail car
Auto rack hauling cars

[inch53]

How about CSX#2499 with a couple ballast cars behind it, a pay loader to load the ballast, and a track hoe on a flat.

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g214/inch53/003-12.jpg

Taken a the old C&EI yard in Terre Haute IN.
inch

[Dee Das]

Not really rail related but our club was invited to an operating session by a neighboring club. Outside on the street, they were having a car show and I saw this gorgeous beast. Its pristine condition brought back memories of my younger days.

http://www.hickorytech.net/~deedas/graphics/Dsc_0921a.jpg

[NSFan14]

Not really rail related but our club was invited to an operating session by a neighboring club. Outside on the street, they were having a car show and I saw this gorgeous beast. Its pristine condition brought back memories of my younger days.

http://www.hickorytech.net/%7Edeedas/graphics/Dsc_0921a.jpg
Sweet jesus look at that BEATIFUL charger! Any information on the motor? 330,383,426 or 440 sitting under the hood?

[fitz]

Along the same theme, here's an ancient (1941) Lima locomotive which transported many passengers on the Southern Pacific Daylight runs, plus a hot rod Buick convertible which starred as the chase car in one of 4449's videos, and a tricked out Mustang, much newer. My kinds of transportation. These were grouped together at the annual "Cruisin' Sherwood" car show in Sherwood, OR, June 14.
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1842/fathersday09.jpg

[Dee Das]

Sweet jesus look at that BEATIFUL Challenger!

My thoughts exactly NSFan14.
I believe it had a 383 in there. The paint job was fresh out of the shop on Friday. The interior was original and immaculate. However, the suspension was totally redone with modern components so it handles as nice in the twisties as it accelerates in a straight line.

[Grey One]

I have lived in Massachusetts for over 30 years and this is the first time I have been to the canal though I have been over it many times. Alas no trains or freighters.
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1843/Bourne_MA_Railr_Road_Bridge_Full_Bicycle.jpg

[HemiAdda2d]

Steve, I'll assume the bike trail is a former RR right-of-way?

Sweet Challenger, DD!

[Grey One]

Hemi -Edit:
From this site:
Cape Cod Canal, Canal Story, Army Corps of Engineers, US Army (http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/recreati/ccc/history/canalstory.htm)
Acting on Parsons recommendation, the Company also placed narrow gauge railroad tracks along the Canal route to enable railed dump cars to carry material off to the sides of the cut. Although the tracks had to be moved frequently as the digging progressed, the method did work fairly well.
No, not really as the eventually responsibility for the widening and straitening of the canal was taken over by the Army Corp of Engineers and where the bike path is now the above mentioned RR would not have been.

My understanding is that the main export using the Providence and Worcester RR from Cape Cod is trash which is taken to a furnace where it is burned to create electricty.

[BuddyBurton]

http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj205/ALM1992/Copyof6-14-08058.jpg

This is all I could come up with this weekend. Im riding on the Vestbule at KRM snapping pictures of L&N #152

Very nice shot!!!!:thumbs_up: :thumbs_up:

Makes a great desktop image. :D

[NSFan14]

Very nice shot!!!!:thumbs_up: :thumbs_up:

Makes a great desktop image. :D
Kinda makes me dizzy...LOL

[OC Engineer JD]

I agree Alex, that is an incredible photo! :) Transportation, power, speed all in one great shot!

[SteamDonkey74]

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/500/PICT0364.JPG

Here's a grain barge on the Willamette River, with some hoppers just behind it. You can just barely see the COTTON BELT lettering on one of them.

Adam

[Colonel]

A great selection of entries this will be an interesting challenge. The poll has been posted.

[campp]

Congratulations NSFan14! Nice shot!

[fitz]

Yeah, Alex, congratulations. That is a great shot. :tb-biggrin:

[Colonel]

Congratulations NSFan14 on winning this weeks challenge.

If anyone has an idea for the weeks prototype subject please pm me