Happy 2010 TrainBoard!! I've had train loads of fun hosting the many photo and video challenges of 2009 and wrapping the year up with the Photo/Video of the year contests has definitely been a cherry on top. Before we get into the voting for the End of the Year contests, I want to send thanks out to our contest moderator Adam (SteamDonky74). He has provided much appreciated help behind the scenes in getting these contests started back up, throughout the year, and during these End of the Year contests, so lets all give a shout of thanks out to him! Overall we had 130 entries from 65 members in our 6 End of the Year contests! (Unique members counted once for each contest entered in) Three of our contests have more entries than a single poll on TrainBoard can handle, therefore we'll start out with an elimination poll. This will work in the following manor: I'm going to post the entries that will be included in this elimination poll here, to this thread. I'll start with the first entry from each member in the order they were entered. Once every member has been included, I'll append the 2nd entry from each member, again in the order they were entered until we have 25 entries (the max options for the TrainBoard poll). For this Prototype Photo contest, we had 42 photos entered, so once the elimination vote is finished, the 8 photos with the most votes will move on to the final poll with the 17 photos not included in the elimination poll. This gives us 25 photos from which to select the 3 "TrainBoard Prototype Photo of the Year!" Each member may vote for as many photos in this poll as they wish (select them all at once before hitting "vote"). The elimination poll will last 3 days. Once I post all the photos to this thread, I will post the poll. Please DO NOT post comments until AFTER the poll is posted. Once the poll is posted, providing photo comments is greatly encouraged, however like the submission threads, please remove the photo from quotes so there are no excess photos visible. Good luck to all participants!
Entry choices for the elimination poll: BuddyBurton - October 5th Prototype Contest Winner, "Track" Stourbridge Lion - Rio Grande #346 HemiAdda2d - From the Taking Montana By Storm trip with Alaska GP49, Railfan at Work: r_i_straw - This was Sunrise in San Antonio this October after the Texas Eagle had made a backup move to get onto the old MKT line and head out of town.
jpwisc - BNSF DPU in Iowa, An SD70Ace at sunrise, Iowa, September 18th, 2009 Scott Stutzman - A trio of ES44's lean into the curve at Crescent Lake, Oregon August 2009. gpa - 235 Switches the Hole, BNSF 3444 waits on the Industrial Lead for the switchmen crew to get their lanterns. Most of these tank cars will spot to the Sugar and Steam Tracks. One car is for Ranier Petroleum. Photo taken December 11, 2009. Stacy Yard. Seattle. bnsf dash 8 - BNSF coal at dusk
bravogjt - Unpatched SP 192 Taken November, 2009 TrainManTy - A Northbound Amtrak Regional passes AEM-7 #948 in the Penn Station Trench in NYC. Taken April 25, 2009. DRGW_hero - A Southbound H-DENKCM manifest powers through one of the first snows of the year. friscobob - SB UP coal train about to duck under US69 south of Eufala, OK
Keith - Switch repair work at east portal, Moffat Tunnel. river_eagle - signs Tim Loutzenhiser - Mid-Michigan Railroad GP38 #3839 pulling some ex-Chessie System hoppers north out of Holland Michigan on July 10, 2009: BuddyBurton - August 10th Prototype Contest Winner, "6 Axles":
Stourbridge Lion - D&RGW Pile Driver OB On October 11, 2009, the CRRM had D&RGW OB Pile Driver being demonstrated while Shay#12 operated around the track. It was a cool winter day that added to show. Yes, there was "Fruit" smashed during the demonstration... HemiAdda2d - Also from the Taking Montana By Storm trip; a ghost of the Milwaukee Road, Soudan in Fog: r_i_straw - This was taken a little while later in New Braunfels from the Texas Eagle. Scott Stutzman - Portland and Western #2005 waiting for it's next run to Toledo, Oregon. July, 2009
gpa - MRL 36 - Milwaukee Road E9, I spotted this Milwaukee Road repaint at Stacy Yard in August. It was at Stacy for a few weeks, then sat at Balmer Yard for a couple more.Photo taken August 20, 2009. Stacy Yard. Seattle. bnsf dash 8 - Highballing on the Chicago Line bravogjt - East Bound UP at Bond, CO. Taken October, 2009 TrainManTy - Sunset in Worcester, MA. Train P517 has just traveled 44 miles from Boston. Taken December 10, 2009.
DRGW_hero - A Very nice looking Ex/ DRGW GP40-2 sits in the cold in Colorado Springs Yard. And that makes 25 photos. Poll will be up shortly. From these photos the 8 that receive the most votes will be included in the final poll. Now feel free to post comments on these photos! Just remember to delete the photo from a quote.
14 votes but we're going to need a lot more to get this pool down to 8 entries. Take a look at these 25 entries and vote for your favorites! Only 2 and a half days left.
23 votes and we have 7 photos with 5 votes or more. Unfortunately, we're going to have to drop any ties for 8th place as that will put us over the limit on the final poll. So make sure to get your votes in now because every vote counts! We have just over two days left, and the next elimination poll will begin tonight.
34 votes! Keep them coming! The poll for the Novice Prototype is about to take over on the main page, but we still have about a day and a half to vote here.
38 votes! Only a few hours until this poll closes so its now or never for the Prototype Elimination poll.
