Seeing Red Didn't make the red contest. Signal lights over the BNSF at diamond crossing at Rochelle IL
Video posted by my father: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpgrIVgG9rY"]YouTube - UP Departing Bellevue WB[/ame]
Seeing the Contest, "Tracks," I remembered this one. It is lousy in quality, freeze framed from video. Not eligible for the contest as it dates back to 1995. Colorado Rail Museum, dual gauge switch. It intrigued me and I thought I had a still, but no.
Two more for the cutting room floor this week. The first was my entry to "Street running", contest previously this year. And taken today, but did not make the cut, the cable car wye at Hyde and California street.
I was going to enter this shot in this weekends "no subject" comp, as I prefer it to the close up, but in the end the leaning tree on the right annoyed me too much, and it's too late in the evening to start (re)modelling! Thought I'd share it here instead... Thanks Phil
BNSF 755 Champion Tracks My second choice for the November 30, 2009 Prototype Photo Challenge. BNSF 755 waits at the Champion Tracks, Stacy Yard, Seattle. 11/30/2009. The Seattle skyline is visible in the background.
year end contest I shot a series of photos when the train was stopping I knew if the auto-rack was stopping on the main there was going to be another train soon but I had to pick three for the contest so here is one that didn't make the cut.
I was playing around with my compact camera, trying different angles to photograph from. Ended up choosing a fairly conventional one for the competition, but there was something about the lighting of this one that made me want to share it. No photoshop work, this is as it was shot. Got quite an old feel to it. Lit by my anglepoise work light, background is a piece of blue foam underlay.
I love the SD60M's I think people don't realize that it was actually a huge step in safety with being the first loco with the wide cab. The cab was not only bigger but the sides of the nose was sloped so the crew could see out better. Later the SD70 had just two front windows and if you look at the SD70ACe's the cab looks a lot like the SD60M's except for the two front window configuration.
Nafta Consist BNSF 4915, BNSF 795, KCS 4014, BCOL 4615, FXE 4645. Champion Tracks. Stacy Yard. Seattle. 2/21/2010 I really would have liked to use this image for the: Weekend Prototype Photo Challenge "Multiple Units" Ends Monday March 1st But alas, it was taken a week too early.
I missed the contest deadline but thought I would post this pic I took last summer when I was working in VA. I was biking along the C&O Canal east of Harper's Ferry, WV. The CSX line to Brunswick, MD squeezes between a cliff and the canal. Nancy
Alright, I'll go first. Completely fake since I have no completed crossings on the layout yet. Looking across the street at the front of the Water Street freight terminal. The lights have just come on, warning of an incoming delivery.
Cereal box illusion For this week's modeling photo contest, the topic is "Crossings". Since I have no crossings finished on my layout, I first chose to "photoshop" something. It was agreed afterwards that this really wasn't in the spirit of the rules, so I scrapped that idea and went a different direction. Using a cereal box, a scrap piece of track, and some ground foam, I mocked up a pretty convincing scene. The track is taped to the box, one side is ballasted, and I threw down some ground foam to give the look of an abandoned lot. The illusion can be seen in the contest thread, but the ugly truth is here :tb-tongue::
