Hello,
The latest edition of Trackside with Trains.com is now live over on TrainsMag.com! This week’s theme: “Rolling stock”
Click here to read Trackside with Trains.com Volume 110
… then click here to vote.
When finished reading and voting, add your comments about this week’s photos below. We’ll be back with a recap next Monday, March 30, 2009.
Thanks for participating!
Erik Bergstrom
Tom gets my vote this week. A dramatic shot in a location which is perfect for when you get the trains, the sun just right and make the right selection when setting your camera.
Rolling stock? Running out of ideas? Maybe on each week’s recap the readers should vote on next week’s theme?
That said, I went with Tom’s photo this week. None of the other photos really “did it” for me, and the sun reflecting off the trailers was really neat!
Good work all! [tup]
Wow–freight cars!
This was like sitting down to a fantastic banquet, consisting entirely of stuff that you ordered, then trying to tell the chef which course you enjoyed the most. Nearly impossible!
I picked Andy’s shot for the variety of cars that it shows, and the detail of it coming into a yard–isn’t that what it’s all about? The fact that it actually appears to be springtime didn’t hurt.
As I write this, Drew’s coal-train shot (those are gons, not hoppers) and Kat’s scenic stack-train photo hadn’t received any votes. They don’t deserve that! Tom’s shot falls into the same category, but he had some votes already.
Erik and Kent: Your shots are good, and interesting. They probably don’t deserve to be left out of my consideration, but for some reason I prefer seeing my freight cars in bulk, not just one or two at a time. (On some other occasion, a single abandoned freight car sitting forlornly in the weeds might get my vote, so I guess it’s my Monday mood or something.) Kent, both of your shots are unusual, and may have more in common than most folks think…consider how people are herded into planes at airports these days (at least that’s what I hear!).
There’s more to railroads than just locomotives. I voted for Kathi, as I thought the bright colors of the cars contrasted well with the usually drabber colors of a railroad ROW. I have to wonder, how accurate the voting is. After my vote, Kathi is still at 0.00%[B)]
I just had Kathi vote for herself and it registered the vote for her. I’m sure Kent appreciates your vote!
Erik
Seriously?
We have dozens of topics to choose from. If you’d like to share some of your ideas with me, please send me a Private Message or e-mail. I’m looking forward to seeing them.
Bergie
Are you saying I voted for Kent, and not Kathi?[D)]
If that’s true, I’ll have to get a tune-up on my progressive bifocals, or move to Florida befoer the next election.[:-,]
I’m just guessing… She has 4 votes now, so I’m thinking you hit one of the people around her.
Erik
Love the topic Bergie.
Tom’s shot…wow. Nice! Maybe the next installment can be for MoW?
Glad to hear that Kat’s getting some votes–that shot was very deserving, but I couldn’t vote for more than one.
Erik, is there any way the results can show either individual vote counts or total number of votes cast? Something more than just the percentage. I suspect that 28 votes have been cast, as of my last check.
Incidentally, Pat says she would “not presume” to pick the best out of this installment’s selection. However, I can state unequivocally that her strongest (and most positive) reaction came after she enlarged Tom’s shot.
Tom’s photo takes it for me this week…endless rolling stock in endless rolling country! But Kent’s fusualage(um?) does make one pause to realize what might be stock for some company or on a manufacturing assembly line.
As is most often the case, all images have lots of positive points. I liked the aircraft fuselage image, and the one with all the colourful double-stacks in the green hills. However, Tom’s was a clear standout for the superelevated foreground cars and the ones in the distance apparently righted. Nice light, too. Excellent.
I had to go with Drew’s shot - I really enjoy seeing a long line of nearly identical cars. Might stem from my days trackside at Rantoul, IL, watching ICG drags of hoppers headed north full and south empty.
I voted for Erik’s presentation…First off, I do like night shots and in my eyes, that is an outstanding one.
But close was Drew’s…With the similar cars hanging over the grade hump…Impressive.
Andy’s shot had good light reflections on the cars and was impressive. The tele lens really made the track look a bit in need of attention but believe most of that was simply amplified by the long lens.
And Kathi’s was quite different…Brightness of the containers and running on what looks to me, an unusual R of W location.
All did represent the theme very well.
Kathi’s shot made me think of Kodachrome, Kent’s shot made me go, “Whoa! Nice catch!”, but it was the honey-colored wide open spaces of Tom’s shot that made me reach for the Vote button.
Kent,
I “bearly” had to think twice. You got my vote. We see many great photos of many great locations every day.
A plane on a train, not so much. Thanks.
Gotta go with Andy this time. I really liked the dusky look…the mixed consist…some distant signal lights…and an adjacent track that looked like it could stand some work.
For color and beauty Kathi’s entry is great…but it’s almost TOO perfect and lacks the grittiness of Andy’s Minnesota shot.
The others were good too…tough choices and an interesting collection to match the theme.
TJB / Nashville, TN
A good selection of photos this time. Each time I thought I saw “the winner”, I would scoll to the next shot and change my mind again. First, I thought Erik’s Galesburg yard night shot had it, until I studied Andy’s mixed manifest shot. Then, the colors of Kathi’s freight snaking up the hill and into the distance impressed me. But finally, Kent’s “multimodal maximus” grabbed me and wouldn’t let go until I voted for it. Nice comeback, Kent! And yes, I’ll admit to some slight bias, since my screen name reflects my job and a certain model of Boeing cargo jet.
A lot of good shots this week… But one piece of art.
Kent had a nice and interesting grab with the fuselages. The color in Kathi’s popped so well, it almost had a surreal quality about it that I liked. Tom’s was very interesting and had a lot that I liked except the harshness of the haze and glare which overpowered the rest of the shot. I think that Drew effectively displayed how his photograph showed the sum of the parts is greater than the whole. The black and white simplicity, the flow and symmetry of the consist was very appealing and his photo is one that I would hang on my wall!