I am very impressed by the quality of the images,
some of which I have seen on RP.net and most
are of well known locations.
One of the best in the calendar is a ground
level shot of an eastbound CSX freight framed
by the portal of the tunnel at Harpers Ferry.
It is a winter scene and, appropriately, is
the photo for February.
Like the March image, which is mine, it has
been Photoshopped and actually looks better than
the web version, i.e., noise removed, better color
saturation and contrast, and darkening of the
tunnel walls.
A couple of the other photos though, including mine,
are a wee bit dark for my liking.
Nonetheless, it is a splendid calendar showcasing
real talent from the railfan community.
I’ve had the UP’s 2008 calendar for some time now. All of the pictures are of the “heritage” fleet, including the Centennial, the Salt Lake Olympics, the various fallen flags and the steamers.
I’m sure it is available at the online store if anyone is interested.
Unfortunately dsktc is still one up on me as none of the UP photos are mine. Congratulations on getting your stuff published!
I make my own csx calendar.give one to the trainmasters shak,one to the mow guys and keep one myself.A seaboard,2 chessies, a uboat csx bought off of ns still in black,and friendly waves from the csx crews.not too bad.
I have bought the McMillan CSX calendar for several years now. One for me and one for my grandpa. I am anxiously awaiting it’s arrival in the mail as I speak.
Are you talking about the wirebound one? I saw that, and it’s actually quite embrassing. All the pictures are Photoshopped. Most of them poorly. Look close at some of the consists, all the locos have the same number. In one pic, the trailing loco has no cab. The wings from a GEVO are melded onto the long hood of an SD.
I’m waiting for the employee calendar to come out, the middle of the month.
Ihave the February photo in the calendar and I can say that it was not Photoshopped like the others. My image had color correction done and that was about it. The darkness disapointed me cause it took away many of the icicles hanging. That is why I took the image in the first place.
I have to agree that about half of the photo’s had bad work done to the images. NS does stuff like this for there calendar and it is done very well.
I think the company selected a wonderful set of images. But, a variety of places should have been used. Most seemed to be in the Northeast (New York State).
Is this calandar the single poster type calandar or the fancy flip through the months being handed out to customers! I noticed on the flip through one that I just took notice of last night uses a lot of photo shopping and pictures of areas that are not CSX property! Mostly the front cover of the calandar is of the D&H RED ROCKs route along lake Champlain! When did CSX start using that! Another photo I noticed looked like NS Rockville Bridge with a fake background and numerous photos had mulitple locomotives with the same cab number! nbrodar had noticed also that in one photo a trailing engine looked like a B unit with no cab! CSX doesn’t have six axle B units nor do they paint the dark future solid blue with the old style hockey stick yellow nose! I have a feeling CSX has ripped other peoples photos and edited them the way they wanted which is not cool! I noticed that no acknowledgment goes to a photographer or a location of the shot taken! This is again in a spiral 12 month calandar not the regular poster one given out to employees each year!
Haven’t seen the CSX calendar in question, but well remember a UP calendar a few years back (soon after the SP merger) in which Photoshop was employed to ensure that all locomotives were yellow–sometimes with questionable or disastrous results.
And will NS ever be allowed to forget their calendar with the un-Photoshopped cover photo of the well-endowed horse on the nose logo? I don’t know how many copies of that got away before it was recalled.