TEEN RAILFAN PLACE-LET'S TALK TRAINS!

[trainboyH16-44]

Replying to posts in chronological order - Kinda glad the place is slow these days, makes it easier....
So, who here has heard the horn from a CN SD70M-2? Like Vazzaz said, they really do blast your ears out.....and I didn't think he was worth more than a passing mention since he wans't here.
Nightrain - I'm not the biggest fan of the yellowbonnets, but I still picked one up in Rochelle last year because of the great price. Here's a pic I have of it leading a 15 car unit grain train...
Unfortunately, something tells me I'll never go to Arizona....California after I graduate, probably, maybe check out Colorado, but what is there in Arizona save for BNSF?
Noah - Funny you should say that, I am currently locked in (sometimes loud) debates with my mum over getting a cheapo digital to supplement my K-1000 (Which I am NOT giving up!) After all, the ones I'm looking at cost between 3 and 5 rolls of film....and I'm now making a graph to show how much the savings will be. Switch fully to digital? Not yet. I have a liking for seeing pictures five feet high projected onto my wall....
Continuing Christian's story of the seventeenth - After we heard that 546 wasn't coming until later, we phoned our respective parents. 'Cept the payhone sucked and kept eating our change. When I eventually got through, my parents were at a winery. (They later got mad at me for not getting in touch with them. Go figure.) so we caught 546 SB and then NB, with the Whistler Mountaineer in between. Then I phoned my mum to tell her I was coming home. 'Cept (at Christian's advisement) I tol her that I had taken 546 to Squamish....turns out she can't take a joke. Whoops. Then we took the bus back across town and while I was waiting for a ride, and he was waiting for a bus, we messed around with pics. Show 'em, Vazzaz!
Railfan1: Welcomes! I'm afraid that I don't know how many trains MRL runs a day, but I assure you it's at least three...
Alec - It felt good to get away from self-appointed constable porker.......hope I never come across anyone like him again.
And now, my latest MRR shots! And some GP38-2s for Evan...


The second one I killed two remote releases to get - There wasn't much headroom down there at all....
Now for some railfanning pics.

I shall edit in some more in a few minutes...then some 6060 pics.

Edit time - Here are shots from my 100km bike ride to Alyth, Ogden, and CN Sarcee.
SW9 I found  with the above GP38-2s at Alyth

For a little while I thought this was the first SD40 I'd seen in a long time, but it looked like an SD40-2, and on inspection of the roster I found that it was CP's first SD40-2, of 1972 heritage.

Here I found a pair of great-looking EMD cabs at the crew office.

Nice thing about Alyth is that, if you stay behind the yellow 'PPE Required' line, nobody gets mad at you. (Yet) (Not like Missoula)
This is when I got lost and found my way to Ogden, where pics of all the incredible locomotives were impossible, but I got a pic of the mechanical man, built from spare parts around the shop. (I think his staff is made of crankshafts)
From there, I wound up going up along the EASTERN city limit to the CN yard, which was vastly disappointing. Two pictures...

At least I got the GMD-1 I came to see.
On the way back, I found CP 1700 and 1701, GG20Bs, working the south end of the yard. Here's the best shot of it...not much of a chance to get good pics.
 
Then I went back to the north end of Alyth in hopes of getting a good shot, but alas, nothing was happening.

Now some mediocre GP38-2 pics specifically for Evan! It might seem a bit repetitive, with reason...


And one from later that evening, which was blurred, tipped, and overexposed. (I tried to meter it on some trees with lots of shadows...)

Next set: 2816 and 6060!

[NightrainAFD1987]

Nice loco! Flagstaff AZ was where I grew up train spotting, so thought I would share with you, another great place (In my opinion of course) to watch trains and get some caught on film, or memory card

[trainboyH16-44]

Sweet, the last photo on this post is now on railpictures.
So, 2816. While we waited for hourse at Golden, the westbound RMR came by.

Then 2816 came in, and the pics turned out shallow.



Then we set off!



Fun canyon...the last one was going into the Lower Spiral Tunnel!

Then there were a pair of meets at Banff. First was an intermodal..

Second was the Royal Canadian Pacific behind 3084. I wodner how many years it's been since the last time two sets of tuscan red passenger cars passed here....sorry about the 'tipped' pic, it won't let me edit it. Same with all the rest...


Exshaw, one of my favorite and least-visited photo locations - I set up my tripod on that little knob of rock.
 
Here's why:

Finally for 2816, coming through the Twin Birdges, where the path that goes down the hill from my house emerges

6060 will be edited again...

[Noah Hofrichter]

Matt, you've got some really nice pictures there, and I'll bet you had fun riding behind the 2816. I know I always enjoy riding behind mainline steam locomotives going 60mph or more, and I got the chance to do that this summer behind the Milwaukee Road 261. Unforunately the weather that day was rainy and cloudy so I don't have that many good pictures like you do though.....

If you are looking at a digital, I'd be careful that you don't go too cheap, you'll just end up being disappointed and sticking with film all the time anyway. What you really need is a DSLR camera, but if you can't get you hands on that because of the cost (like me), at least get a camera that's pretty good quality (like 4-6 megapixels), and you probably want something that has an optical zoom on it. This is going to be more expensive than some of the 2 or 3 megapixel camera, but you'll be much happier with the results. For instance this photo was taken with a 3 megapixel camera I started with, which had no zoom other than digital zoom:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=80635

And this shot, from the same location, was taken with a 6.2 megapixel digital camera with a 35-105mm equivelant optical zoom telephoto to the 105mm setting:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=120715

It's definately a difference, so that's one thing to keep in mind. Of course the other is that the second camera cost be about $150 dollars more than the first(which was $120 about 4 years ago, probably a $75 camera now), but that's something I was willing to pay. Now I just need to come up with about $900 for a Cannon Digital Rebel XT, and I'll be truely happy.....

John, if you still pop in here, contgrats on Photo of the Week at Railpictures.net.

Noah

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the congrats Noah. I haven't been posting on here that much any more because, who are we kidding, its been pretty slow. I bet when school starts up again and everybody has to procrastinate on homework, it will pick up again.

[oskar]

Dang haven't posted here in a long time well it happens other things makes this place low priorty.

Nice pics but a Iron Man painted with Flames logos makes me want to come down there and put a Canes' logo or Ducks since the Flames' got eliminated by Jiggy and the Ducks.

I sure would hope this forum gets back up and running like the old days but here HW is really no problem but its a pain for some folks I'm probaly going to have a HW filled day. Another reason in Hockey related things with the ECHL starting their 19th season October 20th. Another is rail fanning I am already planning some trips during school breaks and Augusta Lynx away games to Pensacola,FL, Charlotte,NC (includes Hamlet,NC along with a possible Aberdeen & Rockfish ride with two freinds, also includes Fort Mill,NC) Atlanta,GA, Columbia,NC, Charleston,SC and a TBD trip to Fort Myers,FL which includes a stop to Folkston.

Since CSX is getting rid of DTC here I have to check out the line across the river see where the signals are on the SC side.

 

Looking forward to these trips hopefully things turn out good for trains.

 

 

kevin

[Lord Atmo]

went to Altoona last night. saw nothing of interest really. but i'm headed to Wisconsin Dells tomorrow and i hope to see some CP and SOO stuff while there

[nssr9169]

Man MAX you missed the 2500 (FP7) ROARING...I mean REALLY ROARING out of the lsrm w/ the lesters and 193(sd18) The 193 was isolated and it was a FP7in 8 notch baby..I can still not see very well from the smog. Cristoferson was told by M.C. Fair to work it ......and boy did he..first 20mph. runnaround I've seen......................... 

[nssr9169]

wow.........I wish the railroad seanery around here was that nice...all we have is a big puddle 

[Guilford Guy]

well yesterday I biked a few miles to a local passenger station
no freight but 4 Commuter trains in about an hour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hYhVoyhQPo

[Anonymous]

mmm....GP38-2s.

[coborn35]

Man MAX you missed the 2500 (FP7) ROARING...I mean REALLY ROARING out of the lsrm w/ the lesters and 193(sd18) The 193 was isolated and it was a FP7in 8 notch baby..I can still not see very well from the smog. Cristoferson was told by M.C. Fair to work it ......and boy did he..first 20mph. runnaround I've seen......................... 

Nope,

heard/saw it come by during football practice. What a brute eh?

 

Today was a great day

We played Grand Rapids in football ad we won 42-2.

I had TWO touchdowns and THREE nice catches.

[Ham549]

Man the railroadeing in my ariea is lame the NewEngland Centreals come at night and the two Amtracks are all pulled by crappy Genies locomotives :-(

[wctransfer]

Well Max, nothing to be proud of, i mean seriously..... Who get sacked in the endzone nowadays? (or fumbles, etc etc) LOL!

Hammy, the door is up in the upper right corner, its even open.....

Alec

[oskar]

Jeez Ham if the trains in you area suck, then look at your spelling.

 

 

kevin