Trackside with Erik and Mike, Vol. 28: April 4, 2005

[Bergie]

In our online feature, Trackside with Erik and Mike, Trains.com staffers Erik Bergstrom and Mike Yuhas go trackside and share their photo results with you. In each installment, we’ll include let our users vote on who got the best shot. Read this week’s installment.

Read this week's column, then vote and share your comments.

[ValorStorm]

I chose Erik's.

[Anonymous]

Yep. Got to go with the Berg. Have always liked those ole pacing shots!

[Anonymous]

My vote is for Erik's shot. Of the 2, it's the one that really grabbed me. I felt
the movement of the loco gliding along and could get lost in the scene
so to speak.
Mike's shot was good for the conditions but I found the wire clutter
distracting.
Bob Sandusky

[Anonymous]

I voted for Erik,because he mixed some nice girl, pictures in with the engine pictures & any time I can get a good look At PAMELA, I will & THanks hhuubb.

[emmar]

I voted for Mike's shot this week. It was a hard decision, but Mike's shot was batter especially considering the bad lighting. Erik's photo was also good, but it lacked any background interest and just being a pacing shot was not enough to get my vote.

[warriorpilot]

I have to give this one to Mike for a change. The dreary day, the long train, the reflections, the heat, it just seems like more of a gritty, real life shot.

[Anonymous]

Mike whitch picture did you take 1st[?] Thats ok you got my vote for the shot of BNSF// NS an all the detail great shot. that clear signal was for PA[^]

[Anonymous]

Good job, Mike. You had the perfect angle on this train. Eric could have made a good run at you if he had jockeyed for a better position.

[czygmont]

Man o man... what a tough vote for me. Triple tough.

Obviously voting for Pamela Anderson is a no brainer... but that was not to be.

Now it's down to two photos. I'm a BNSF fan, so both railroad subjects are great. I absolutely love Erik's pacing shot, a BNSF pacing through Arizona, one of my favorite places in the country. The photo is beautiful, but I couldn't vote for it. I voted for Mike's. Turns out I'm originally from LaPorte, IN, born and raised there, but now live in Saint Louis. So I voted for the home town. My only question is, where were you standing Mike? you mention an overpass, and the only two I can think of off the top of my head is the US35 overpass in downtown LaPorte next to the courthouse, and Fail Road crossing east of downtown.

[Anonymous]

I voted for Erik's pacing shot, but not only because it is a great pacing shot, where the loco looks like it's about to jump off the track into the air. I also like the colors and terrain of the southwest (where trains run on a terrainy day [;)]), and we don't get to see this much in all those midwest shots.

[Anonymous]

I voted for Mike's photo. My very simple reasoning is the same one that I used for several years when I was a much more active photographer: trains run no matter what the weather.

[espeefoamer]

Mike,in the late 1960s, Railroad Magazine regularly published photos of young,scantily clad women with trains behind them.Maybe you could try this[8D].

[Anonymous]

Like the photo of the BNSF train, but Mike's photo got my vote. There's something about the rainy day with the coal drag that I like. stcastle

[wcnut]

Tough choise this week, although Erik came out on top. His exposure makes every element in the photo "pop" out at you. I did like the framing of Mike's between those high signals.

Greg
"wcnut"