"Steel" Back before I knew what I was doing with a camera, I bagged a westbound coal train leaving Cheyenne on #3 or 4 track at sunset.
Talent usually shines from the start. Like rails at sunset. That's beautiful. People who don't know what they're doing should do whatever they're trying to do the way you did at the time (if this sentence sounds weird, it's 4 a.m. and the caffeine has barely taken effect ).
Very nice. Your beginner's shots are better than my best shots. The biggest mistake I made as a beginner kid photographer was ignoring prevailing light. "I'll just fix the shot in the darkroom", I'd say to myself. But it never worked out very well. As with the photo below, why didn't I cross the tracks and take a nicely lit shot from the street?
Rock Island depot at Seminole, OK [photo by Rick Purdue, 1973] I'm a fan of it's "Mission Style" architecture. It still stands today; Union Pacific owns the line.
A Q-PTLCHC with a solid group of fresh Schneider containers. Photos from private property, with permission:
Nice vantage point. I like the wide-angle view of the first photo. Those containers look like a long string of cheese sticks... mmmmm... cheese sticks...
That orange really pops-and now (predictably) I will spend hours searching for n scale Schneider containers. I’ve got a zillion containers but the only orange I have are a half dozen 40’ Hapag-Lloyd. And they aren’t quite the same bright orange, even before weathering. I know JTC makes some-I see them around at $30/2 pack, but my personal rule is to not pay more than $10 per container, including shipping. I may have to break it… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
That's when you get that sinking feeling, like when you see your own wheel overtake you on the highway...
I went out this afternoon looking for NS Train 15R southbound from Charlotte, NC. I'm fairly good at reckoning running times on the line, but was made a little late by having to pick my wife up at church. I found a spot, parked the car ... and immediately heard the horn. This was a grab-the-camera-and-run-like-heck shot. I didn't even have time to cross the tracks to be on the sunny side or to catch color in the signal aspect. Oh well, maybe next time.
Not really a depot, but it was a train station once upon a time. Formerly a passenger station in Lakeside, Ohio on the Lakeside and Marblehead Railroad. Abandoned as a common carrier, and thus passenger traffic, in 1964. It hauled limestone for a private owner until 1978 and it's tracks were removed in 1997 (although a short stretch remains in front of the station where you see the grass walking path on the left). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakeside_and_Marblehead_Railroad Sent from my SM-A716U using Tapatalk
