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The Roundhouse Episode 5
Trackside Food: In the Freight House in Kansas City, across the tracks behind Union Station, is LIDIA’S ITALY … outstanding food from a famous chef with a great view of AMTK, BNSF, KCT, and UP.
Good stuff. Continuing on the photography vein - image processing software for digital - which is “best”? I like Google’s Picasa because it is free and easy, but can’t do nearly what Photo Shop can. Opinions?
General comment for all of MR Video plus. Date/Time marking of some sort needs to be added to the videos, especially the series episodes. “Cody’s Office” already does this, but even now just a little more than a week from launch it is hard to determine if anything new has been added since the last time I looked at the site.
Excellent but you need a section for “follow-on questions” related to your discussions.
For example: I purchased a DSLR at your suggestion: but am trying to decide what lense(s) to buy for railfaning and for photos for publishing magizine articles. Should I go for a 18-200 mm VR Zoom or a 85 mm Micro-Nikkor or both?
Addressing/discussing these and other follow-on questions would be most helpful to all.
Thanks.
Episode 5 is too general. I was looking for more specific advice as to how to meet the challenge of taking convincing, impressive pix of both real and model railroading.
I enjoyed the comments on DSLR’s. I finally converted from slide to Digital 3 years ago and haven’t looked back. I ended up giving my old Nikon away within 2 months of buying a Nikon D90 DSLR, and now greatly enjoy the benefits of digital. Even with digital there are some elements that never change, such as being at the right spot at the right time. It was the same when I was started shooting trains in the early 35 years ago. With digital you can see your results instantly, and if the inital results aren’t what you first envisioned, you can improve on it. Get it right while out in the field, and you don’t have to spend alot of time in front of the computer for post production. One thing we can do now with digital, that we couldn’t do effectively with film, is making seamless panoramas. I’ve shot some railroad panoramas up near Donner Pass, CA that I could only have dreamed of doing years ago. Challenging, but lot’s of fun!
Food by the tracks is it? Germantown Commissary on Gtown Road in Germantown, TN. Get the window seat, order tons of great Memphis BBQ and get ready for the NS. It’s 30 feet outside!
There are a few good places that come to mind. The first is pick any Jerry’s Pizza location(or use take out) anywhere on the Met Sub in Maryland directly outside of Washington, or in the Eatery in Garrett Park. Be prepared to see CSX, Amtrak(Capitol Limited) and MARC(on weekdays only). Pizza, Birch Beer and trains. Best ever. The second is Aunt Millie’s in Silver Creek, NY(almost 2 miles from Buffalo). Here you can see CSX and NS heading to Buffalo-Erie and points beyond. This is a classic American Diner that is something of a cross between Bob Evans and Denny’s. Good times.
By far the greatest trackside dinning experience I ever had was dinner at The Palace which is next door to the passenger station in Durango, Colorado. We sat on the covered patio and watched the parade of K-28’s and K-36’s returning from their trips down the mountain from Silverton loaded with weary cinder-covered passengers. We also had the perfect vantage point to witness the railroad re-coaling and watering the power before putting them down for the night. Oh the smells of good food and live steam railroading…it just doesn’t get any better than that!
Who was that modeler you mentioned with attention to detail? It sounded like Payalay Seabourg?
Great place for track side food is in Flagstaff AZ the Lumberyard Brewing Company its right across from the Flagstaff station and next the the transcon. Inside by the window or out by the patio.