Good morning,
Congratulations to Frank Orona! His photo from Irondale, Alabama showing Norfolk Southern’s massive classification yard takes victory. Look for his photo in the pages of Trains magazine.
We’ll be taking this week off, as it is a short one due to the holiday. Look for a new theme next Monday.
Thanks,
Drew
It is so exhilarating to see those operating the TRAINS Magazine website themselves a victim of their own malfunctioning website!
Case in point, the title of this thread: “Trackside with Trains Vol. 266: "Yards" is LIVE.”
Views count: 192, after seven days. Obviously, there is little economic incentive to fix the forum. If the forum attracted 200 to 300 new subscribers each week, we all would be using a flawless, trouble-free forum.
I will wait to vote until all the photos have captions. [:X]
I had to go with the shot by Christopher Blaszczyk; it seemed to have an eerie, ET look to it.[alien][alien][alien]
ChuckCobliegh (8-31):
Christopher had to be riding ET’s bike through the air when he shot that great photo!
Perhaps the eeriness comes from subconsciously sensing that bike ride. He shot that photo up in the air, didn’t he?
Take care,
K.P.
I was thinking more in terms of what he was shooting towards to make the UFO/ET connection. It also looks like a number of engines to the left in the picture will soon be going behind the vantage point.
EDIT: Think Sheep Jump and Area 51.
The locomotive #345 in Trevor Solokan’s photo was built as an SJ T44 with an EMD 12-645E blower engine, think MP15 or GP15-1…
If it doesn’t sound like that now is must have been rebuilt with an MTU 12V4000 R43, which is of course a four stroke engine.
It would have been numbered T44 345 when new. It may be class Td now.
M636C
I voted for John Wagner’s entry. It looked more like the typical yard you encounter. All the others appear to have too much ballast and good ties.
Jeff
Can’t comment on that neat little switcher’s specifics but Trevor is right. This is a really neat shot with all those overhead wires suggestive of concentrated heavy industry in a small area. I can handle that in my stimulated imagination. Very railroady and dream-worthy. No imagination in a massive yard spread over many miles and acres. Please show me more, Trevor. ~ John A. Swearingen
A good series of pictures this time round. Gave to Frank based on the subject.
… BUT, Mitch was a very close second! Why? I hear you ask… because his description is a classic understatement. Large yard, maybe, but it is grass. And love that the “for sale” notice includes the rail spur. [:D] [8-|]
Thanks John! The shot I took was more of a grab shot while waiting for our train. Usually I’m not that interested in Europian railways but the overhead wire was a new experience for me, as well as seeing a hard working locomotive that I had info on!
-Trevor Sokolan