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2012 Trains photo contest

on Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Thanks again for sending us more than 400 photos for our 2012 contest. The theme was the blue hour, or the one hour before sunrise and one hour after sunset. Check out the winners below, and please let us know what you think by commenting.

Grand prize: Robert Jordan's aerial image of a Canadian Pacific freight at Bellevue, Iowa.

First prize: Eric Williams shot of a Metro-North train crossing Moodna Viaduct at Salisbury Mills, N.Y.

Second prize: Stewart Buck's stark photo of a switchman at Union Pacific's Short Line Yard in Des Moines, Iowa.

Runner-up: Dennis Livesey's Amtrak Empire Service train at Cortlandt, N.Y.

Runner-up: Bruce Stahl's Chicago Transit Authority Green Line train.

Runner-up: Greg Durling's photo of Amtrak's Blue Water at Durand, Mich., en route to Port Huron.

Runner-up: Renaud Chodkowski's photo of a Paris commuter train as it arrives at Persan-Beaumont station.

Runner-up: Ken Fitzgerald's image of a tower operator at Union Pacific's Davidson Yard in Fort Worth, Texas.

Thanks for checking them out! And thank you to those that entered and those that won! When you leave your comments, please remember to be courteous.

Want to enter our 2013 contest? Get all the details now!

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