Trackside with Trains Vol. 201: Bridges is now live to view and vote!
Six photographers submitted images for the latest round of our biweekly photo competition.
View the selections and vote for your favorite, then return here to discuss Vol. 201!
How do you judge a bridge? The mighty leaps across wide valleys or the short hop across a creed so as not to endanger life around it. One where we’d drive miles to witness it take on a load while being dazzled by its size and architecture? Stone, steel, concrete, wood? I like some of the short trestling work like on the LV’s Southern Central: wood still to this day. I also am astounded by stone of Starrucca and the rock at Rockville and the steel of Moodna and all other which made an engineer dig into his ability to tackle the open space. So, I went with Ed’s pic of a wow bridge of steel on a curve in a canyon in the Canadian Rockies as a salute to all bridges and photographers who see the might and beauty in a bridge.
Nothing really inspiring. I went with Tom Nano’s shot because of the routine nature of it - something one might see just about anywhere.
Pretty hard for me to vote for anything other than our western Oregon beauty, 4449, on central Oregon tracks. What a beautiful scene!
+1
That was the only shot that actually had the bridge as a part of railroading as the subject (IMO). The others were just train shots that happened to have a bridge in them.
Your mileage may vary.
With a subject like bridges there is a lot of choices. I liked all of them but voted for Alex Mayes**, come on it had steam running on it so that wasn’t really fair. Michael Harding**'s was my second choice but all of them were very nice to view. Maybe it should have been pictures with steam or without steam, with trains or without trains or or or… LOL
Make it +2,
I go with Henry 6 and Zug. and vote for Ed’s.
Although it was hard for me to look past the long-hood-forward shot, to others’ points, I had to go with the bridge that was best captured and most represented bridges w.r.t. Trains. What a beautiful shot!
Ed
Would have liked to known about this theme soon enough to submit some of my photos, but guess not.
Ditto. One in particular.
I voted for Michael Harding’s photo by default, it’s the only movable bridge in the set. Of course, growing up in Chicago has made me partial to movable bridges.
+2
+3
We keep asking about this, and we keep getting ignored.
I forget, does the decoder ring come in the Cheerios, or the Frosted Flakes?
Maybe it’s just me, but I think we tend to gravitate toward bridges that made a lasting impression on us…probably as youngsters. In my case it was the Northern Pacific ‘high line’ bridge at Valley City, ND. I particularly liked it because the main line of the Soo Line passed underneath it. It was for that reason that the Alex Mayes photo of SP 4449 on a similar bridge in Oregon got my vote. Even without the train, I probably would have selected this bridge shot.
Tom in Nashville
…Mellow’s rendition shows me a beautiful photo with an impressive line of tank cars {the light on them too}, and bridge. I think it really got my attention with beautiful deep colors and awesome view.
Of course we have the railroad scene including the bridge to make it qualify.
I really like that total image…It gets my vote.
I also like Rogue’s photo…for different reasons. Very impressive “railroad stuff” included in his shot…Impressive bridge and train power…and with the multi track crossover almost perpendicular to bridge traffic is impressive…A distinctive railroad site.
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yeah, but…
But, Sarah, these announcements used to be here announcing the next theme separate from announcements of the present winners. Plus sometimes the Newsletter is missed either by Trains, the internet, or by individuals…so I, for one, am asking you to please announce it here on this forum page as well as in the on line Newsletter. Thank you…
Thanks, Henry. I’m sure we can do that. I will pass this along to my colleagues!