Digging through my slides turned up a few shots of my friends trackside. What shots do y'all have of your friends out fanning? [ 02 April 2002, 14:21: Message edited by: BrianS ]
Brian, Excellent pictures it gives another angle to how all these photographs are taken. We always seem to take it for granted that someone has taken the trouble to go out and bring back fantastic photgraphs for all of us to enjoy.
Brian, This is a good thread idea and you gave it a nice start. Here is one of an unknown railfan at the Danbury Railway Museum, when their RS-1 was pulling the "Railyard Local." As usual, the Alco is showing its heritage and trying to act like a steam engine.
Peirce, here's a shot of me and a few of my friends who just happened to be standing alongside the tracks up on Stampede Pass in Washington when this old relic just happened by. Right!! [ 25 February 2002, 21:49: Message edited by: fitz ]
Another railfan at "work" at the Danbury Railway Museum. [ 20. October 2002, 14:08: Message edited by: Peirce ]
A couple of railfans perched on Langstone Rock watch as a London bound HST set leaves the seawall at Dawlish, 15th Feb 2003. [ 26. December 2003, 11:24: Message edited by: Martyn Read ]
The Voyagers are apparently all fixed now, (well, they haven't fixed the issue of them being half the size of the trains they replaced, ...but they have sorted the "seawater in the dynamic brakes" issues apparently! ) I'm told that the big advantage of trains with onboard computers is that upgrades can be done in a couple of minutes as a techie plugs in a laptop, rather than having components changed out as trains pass through works, so once they found a solution to the problem the entire fleet was corrected within a weekend!
Sorry, for all of you who don't know what we're going on about, this is a Virgin Voyager, at the same location as the previous pic, but with my camera pointed the other way!!! [ 26. December 2003, 10:41: Message edited by: Martyn Read ]
Yes Martyn, apparently the sea water can still shut down a Voyager, but now they can be restarted in a couple of minutes
...ain't technology grand! The good old steam & early diesel power didn't have an onboard computer to decide that the waves were too high! The latest on these is that in the summer timetable they are not going to call at many of the intermediate stops as they would get too overcrowded, it sounds like regular trains will be running non-stop through Exeter and Taunton, which hasn't happenned for a good few years! The sooner they get an order in to make them all up to 6+ cars long the better... [ 21. February 2003, 10:34: Message edited by: Martyn Read ]
I remember in good old steam days when normal train length on the east coast main line was twelve coaches!
Although some can be seen all winter, it is a sign of spring when the railfans return to their northern habitats. Here is one that likes to take a close look at her subject. Another sign if spring is when the attention of some railfans turn to other railfans. Here is a good example. While railfan A is concentrating on the rail, railfan B is concentrating on railfan A. Both pictures were taken last Wednesday at the Danbury Railway Museum.
At least some of you managed to get trains as well as railfans in your pictures. Some of my pics of railfans just have the fan and empty tracks because we hit a giant lull in the action.
