Interesting and Different Photos!

Some blasts from the past.

 

IC crossing in Berwyn, IL at Riverside Drive after a storm (1974):

 

A snowy night in Berwyn (1974):

 

Heavyweights from IRM paused for a quick inspection en route to Chicago for movie work (1983):

 

And, even the pros can goof up a paint job (EMD 1990):

 

Rusty

  Dual trains and double-stacks on the dual-gauge double tracks.

 

Windmill Hill Cutting, Western Australia. Photo by Ace 2009.

 

Here are our two cats, Zachary (l.) and Zoe, with the front of a Lionel 262E restored by Vic Panza in the background

When the CGI movie A Christmas Carol came out, a special train took people behind-the-scenes. I caught up with it in 30th Street Station, Philly. It was dark down there on the platform but I got permission to take a photo.

A fascinating display in one car was a small set with a motion-capture suit. An actor was filmed in this suit. The lights (dots) and grids (tiles) guided animators when they added characters, clothing, details and backgrounds for scenes in the movie.

Siskiyou Line 

 Ace 2003

Siskiyou?  I got good and lost in the Siskiyou Nat. Forest in Oregon trying to follow

the Rogue River (Zane Grey's novel, "The Rogue River Feud") from the coast east.

Vandals had removed all the NFS signs.  That RR tunnel is there?  I finally came out

in Grants Pass just before dark.  I thought I was going to be spending the night with

Big Foot.

Need a better shot of the bikini clad girl.

I don't have anymore of the bikini girl ha ha, so these will have to suffice.

 

I don't quite trust them with helping me work on the layout just yet.

 

 

 

I never get any good shots.

 

 

 

Kent in SD

Tasmania three-rail 

 

 

  

 

Ace 2009

Now that's cool Ace.

Great post - I'll have to dig a bit and see what I have.

 

Joey - those are great, especially like the shot with the train and truck!  More luck then the skill of the others, but really wild.  Regarding the pace shot, however - looks like the blur was after the fact and done in processing with the blur filter - yes?  It looks more like blur then motion.

 

/Mitch

Heck - here are two I know of that were easy to find (at 3 AM, lol):

 

Dog on a Train (Paris)

 

Amtrak AEM-7 "Zoom Pan" taken at 1/13th of second in Bensalem, PA

High(er) resolution here: http://www.railpictures.net/vi...id=251340&nseq=6

 

/Mitch

Great stuff guys keep em' coming, keep em' coming.

 

Mitch, love that dog shot. - pace shot taken with one of my lensbaby lenses, train only doing about 5 mph at the time. If you are familiar with these lenses, although I use them for some of my portrait work, they can be used for a variety of neat stuff.  And Mitch, I remember you when I used to post on RP a long time ago. I am not concerned with foreground clutter or PEQs here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

South Australia. Watch out for them 4-6-0's. 

 

 Ace 2009

My railfaning sidekick, Mrs. Mullan, jots down the train number and leading locomotive of an autorack, Q216, as it passes in the background and is

reflected in our car windows.

 

E

I searched all my files for something "different", and this is all I could find--a cat scan.

 

 

Kent in SD

A trainman caught in the steam of the SP 2472.  Matt

The geometry of CalTrain rails.  Matt

Dining Car on "The Ghan" Darwin to Adelaide.

A Commonwealth Railways Budd Car at the National Railway Museum, Adelaide.

The National Railway Museum also has a nice pavilion.

 

 

 

Ace, do you have an online album of your Aussie Rail adventures? You have some great images.

 

Thanks for the comment Dave. Maybe some day I will set up an online album.   

 

 Collie Visitor Centre, a coal mining area in Western Australia.

Out for a bit today

 

Excellent photos everyone.  Here's a couple...