Train pictures!!!!!!only

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Hey Hey Hey…Thank you for point out shutterfly for me. I am still building my own website though. If you have a website to host your Train pictures, please post them here with the location, and date, and comments. By location, I mean, country, state, and town, and railroad line that the train is on the the line that the engine sponers. Like for example: United States of America, Illinois Glen Ellyn, 11/11/04,Union Pacific railroad line, Southern Pacific angine, an unpatched SP rolls down tword Geneva Illinois at a very fast speed.

Yes I have heard of www.railpictures.net, but they won’t accept any of my photos. Here are some that I took.


  1. In the United States of America, Illinois, Crest Hill, date unknown CSX freight yard, C&O caboose, I hope none of the prisoners from Statesville, (the prison on the other side of the tracks that are not in the picture) don’t get out and screw this old C&O caboose up.


  2. United States of America, Illinois, Wheaton, 11/1/04. It took a few years, but I finally found Union Pacific #3300 with a camera. What is scary about this is that the day before at school, I got a fortune cookie that said, “Tommorrow will be lucky and mamorable for you.” And my lucky number was on it. Makes you think?[8]

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Nice photos!

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Hi,

I like the pictures! I am a local photographer in Arizona and would like to photograph trains in action. How do I find a train schedule? I want to set up my large format camera and be ready. Any help would be great.

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If you want to photograph freight trains, they dont have a schedule. You have to go to a place and sit by the tracks and wait, thats the only way.

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Another good place is www.railimages.com I have a few of my own pictures there. It takes a day or two for creation of an account, but it’s a good place.

Here are a few of mine.

http://www.railimages.com/albums/noahhofrichter/aaa.jpg

This was taken October 30th, 2004, in Rock Springs Wi, at the Pick lady quarry. This is a UP ballast train, run by Wisconsin and Southern railroad crews on there track. The ballast is a pink purple ballast, quartzite rock.

http://www.railimages.com/albums/noahhofrichter/aap.jpg

This is of the CP holiday train when it came to Portage WI on December 10th, 2004. This was my first time using time exposure photography, and it came out very well I think.

And here’s a few of my Model Pictures.

http://www.railimages.com/albums/noahhofrichter/aar.jpg

These are my two WSOR(Wisconsin and Southern) SD40-2’s 4001 and 4003. They were made by athearn for the WSOR company store at www.wsorrailroad.com

http://www.railimages.com/albums/noahhofrichter/aah.jpg

Here’s a photo of my first model scratchbuild, the WSOR’s Transfer caboose. It’s there only caboose, and it’s used(or it’s supposed to, it’s rarely ever moved out of the yard though) for shoves on a small line with no run-around track at the end.

Here’s a photo of the real thing sitting in the Madison WI yard of the WSOR on June 26th, 2004:

http://www.railimages.com/albums/noahhofrichter/aai.thumb.jpg

You can be the judge of how well I did.

Anyway, I hope you like the pictures!

Noah

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To Cabose: another way of finding out what is running would be to have a scanner and listen to the trains as they talk to dispatch and dispatch talks back, to get a general idea of their where abouts. JUst don’t go onto private property when taking pictures. From a street crossing or an overpass, you can get beautiful shots.
ralph zimmer n9kym@aol.com

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beg parten gentelmen,

but I’d rather want some Locamodive pictures, no deisels please, I have lots of locamodive pictures, but I need/want more…[:)]

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Hello cabose,
What large format camera do you have?

underworld

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Hello, thank you for the complemants, I live in the Chicago Subarbs. And yes, I would like to know how to photograph train in action. How do I do that

Passenger schedules can be found everywhere. Freight schedules, when their is a delivery, then their is a train.

Thank you everybody for the comments. I am blushing.[;)]

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Glen Ellyn: just go to one of the local sites where trains travel. You should be able to catch everything and anything on the tracks. I go out with a friend of mine every week and we have a scanner with us, as well as the knowledge of who and what is running. Most of it is just for the fun of it, and our love of ttrains. We sometimes also follow the one road, that I used to work for. Remember the old phrase: Stop, Look, Listen. Well the same goes for trains.

ralph zimmer ralphn9kym@aol.com