Contest for January 2002

This sounds promising! I'm planning to go out trainchasing the day after Christmas and maybe I'll run up to Stevens Pass and see what I can bag in the snow. BTW, I'm glad to kow I'm not the only one who has lived in the Yreka area, When I was growing up my mom was building that big white house on the hill you see from I-5 down by the Easy St. exit. I was driving through there about a year ago and caught the YW and decided it was another case of Mark Twain's famous line (as modified). THe rumors of the YWs demise are much overstated!

 

Here is 60 miles an hour heading west out of Wichita, Kansas around 1968. The snow was falling about 100 feet on either side, taken near Harper, Kansas by my uncle Howard.

 

WOW HOW KEWL WATASH cool:

 

Well after the shot from watash which is a 20 on the scale of 1-10 all I will do is put up a couple of winter road trip links.

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Snow and Smoke




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Watash.....you've certainly set the standard with that impressive plow shot.
Not sure I can match it, but here goes.........


One for the steam fans. This is a shot of an ex Southern Railway (U.K.) "King Arthur" class 4-6-0 no.777 "Sir Lamiel" hauling a Santa special in 1984


A Swiss Federal Railways Re460 electric loco entering Kandersteg with a Basel - Brig service. The train was scheduled for 2.25 p.m. and as the clock testifies it was running with true Swiss efficiency


A wintry scene on my old n-scale layout. It was created with Noch snow powder just for the benefit of the camera. The Swiss Ae6/6 loco is a brass model made by Lemaco.

I can't claim any credit for the next three shots. They were taken by my friend Craig Stevens from California during a trip to Switzerland in 1996 and show a steam rotary plow in use on the Bernina Bahn. The plow is being propelled by an electro-diesel loco.







Hope you like them
John.

[ 03 January 2002: Message edited by: John Whitby ]

 

Maybe send some of the winter in these scenes down to us Downunder - I'm certain the Volunteer Bushfire Brigades will appreciate it Jim, can you extend the contest to, say, the end of August? There may be enough snow down south to get a shot or 2 of the Ski-Tube John and Watash - great plow shots! Craig's Swiss shots are really neat. I can almost feel the snow.

Gary.

 

John, your photos are a thrill, especially the rotary snow plow shots! The rotaries are my favorite MOW equipment next to the big steam cranes!

[ 19 January 2002: Message edited by: watash ]

 

Heres a good shot of a snowblower in action!



[ 11 January 2002: Message edited by: 7600EM_1 ]

 

WOW WHAT PICTURES I AM SPEECHLESS THANKS GUYS FOR MAKING ME A HAPPY CAMPER.

A Very Impressed Sunshine

 

Boy, those are really great shots! As I have said many times, there is nothing like steam in winter. Watash, great stuff! Like you, I will enter one on behalf of a friend, Martin E. Hansen, who needs no intro to those of you who read Railfan and Railroad Mag. This one shot at the McCloud about a year ago today, with No. 18 and 25 steamed up.

 

Thanks Paul, been at home, harder to get online with slower internet connection which ties up the only phone line.

 

Here are a few of my favorites.


Winter Park Ski Train Plainview Dec 26, 1988


West helper at Cliff April 1988


Coal creek canyon Jan 1995


Silverton May 1991

 

Darn you Mike. You KNOW I love that first picture.

 

Slimjim wrote:

Jim,

Huh? I didn't know. . . . .

You, me and several others. You wouldn't believe all the comments I've had on that photo since I put it on my website.

Ain't it past our bed time yet?

 

Thanks Mike for your wonderful pictures, I love that last shot it is a beauty. I will go now and look at your site.

 

Tom decided not to post for the contest, sorry.

[ 19 January 2002: Message edited by: watash ]