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Posted by chateauricher on Monday, March 24, 2008 10:56 PM

The following are among the images I use as a desktop:

Looking north from the end of the south-bound train in the Agawa Canyon on the Algoma Central...

 

Two views (looking south) of the tressle over the Montreal River on the Algoma Central...

 

The Hull-Chelsea-Wakefield RR as it passes through Wakefield, QC (Canada)...

 

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Posted by pcarrell on Monday, March 24, 2008 10:43 PM

I have a photo I took back in December as my desktop.

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Posted by Oakhurst Railroad Engineer on Monday, March 24, 2008 10:39 PM

I rotate various pictures of my layout ... this is a logging camp photo that I'm using this week ...

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Posted by larak on Monday, March 24, 2008 10:21 PM

 loathar wrote:
SteamFreak gets the photo credit.
Lately, I need that pic to remind myself exactly why I'm a Republican.Whistling [:-^]

(Un)fortunately for me I DON'T need a picture like that. That carpet bagger is my state senator. It was nice to see her finally showing her true face though. Maybe someone broke her train?

 

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Posted by bogp40 on Monday, March 24, 2008 10:17 PM

Change them every so often. These are some of the last few.

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Posted by SteamFreak on Monday, March 24, 2008 9:58 PM

 loathar wrote:
SteamFreak gets the photo credit.

Don't blame me for that thing! I only passed it along. 

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Posted by loathar on Monday, March 24, 2008 9:56 PM
SteamFreak gets the photo credit.
Lately, I need that pic to remind myself exactly why I'm a Republican.Whistling [:-^]
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Posted by superbe on Monday, March 24, 2008 8:35 PM

Like others have mentioned, I rotate my desk top when I get bored. Some pictures last longer than others. My track laying is reaching the point where I hope to have this scene along with the rest of the Bulk Plant on the layout along with a zillion tank cars. The reason for the 5 tanks being so high is that when the plant was built it was a pump up and gravity down.

 

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Posted by tstage on Monday, March 24, 2008 8:28 PM

Whoa, Loathar!  Is that a substitute for coffee in the morning?

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Posted by sfcouple on Monday, March 24, 2008 7:53 PM

Loathar, that would be hard to look at every day.Smile [:)]

Mine is a picture I took at the Keddie Wye a few years ago, only wish there had been a locomotive crossing the trestle at the time.  

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Posted by GAPPLEG on Monday, March 24, 2008 7:48 PM
Mine too is a copyright photo so I can't show it.  It's a photo of the Southern Pacific Heritage unit as done by UP.
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Posted by SteamFreak on Monday, March 24, 2008 7:16 PM

I always knew Loathar was a masochist. Smile,Wink, & Grin [swg]

 

Currently, it's this shot from Stuck In Customs.

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Posted by SilverSpike on Monday, March 24, 2008 7:03 PM

I've had this one since May of 2007 just after our visit to the NC Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC.

This photo was taken just minutes before our cab ride in the Southern #6133 FP-7 Cab Ride

Click this You Tube link to see the cab ride video

 

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Posted by PMeyer on Monday, March 24, 2008 6:52 PM
 sleeper33 wrote:

 Mine is the same as my avatar

Gav

So is mine. Smile [:)]

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Posted by lvanhen on Monday, March 24, 2008 6:48 PM
Loathar, You're too scary!!!Shock [:O]
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Posted by tomikawaTT on Monday, March 24, 2008 6:43 PM

Mine is a photo of Jamie Dantzscher (UCLA) on the balance beam at the 2002 NCAA Gymnastics Finals.  (Watching gymnastics is one of my other hobbies.)

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Posted by AntonioFP45 on Monday, March 24, 2008 6:23 PM

Loathar! LOL!

Too much!  Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D] 

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Posted by LNEFAN on Monday, March 24, 2008 5:36 PM
I use Webshots (Google to find it). They have lots of train/railroad related pics that can be made into wallpaper and screensavers. Also, you can use your own collections of pictures. With this software I can rotate lots and lots of pictures as my mood for them dictates. It's a very neat setup.
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Posted by sleeper33 on Monday, March 24, 2008 5:08 PM

 Mine is the same as my avatar

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Posted by loathar on Monday, March 24, 2008 4:55 PM

You asked...

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Posted by MOJAX on Monday, March 24, 2008 3:58 PM
Here is the photo I use on my desktop:

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Posted by Dave Vollmer on Monday, March 24, 2008 3:45 PM
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As of this morning:

Laugh [(-D]

I'd better not show the kids though. 

I was working on Thomas with a ball-gag (a la Pulp Fiction) when I looked down and noticed "the LINE."  I was about to cross it...  Ooops!  So I turned around.

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Posted by Pathfinder on Monday, March 24, 2008 3:35 PM
 Dave Vollmer wrote:

As of this morning:

Laugh [(-D]

I'd better not show the kids though. 

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 24, 2008 3:31 PM

Here's mine:

 

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Posted by jfallon on Monday, March 24, 2008 3:22 PM

 

 

    I use this photo of the enginehouse on my module layout.

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Posted by Dave Vollmer on Monday, March 24, 2008 2:43 PM

As of this morning:

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Posted by tstage on Monday, March 24, 2008 2:38 PM

Taken at the Cincinnati Union Terminal (CUT), this is one of two identical signs set at the entry way to the old concourse, which now only partially exists.

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Posted by OzarkBelt on Monday, March 24, 2008 2:30 PM

Here's mine. I rotoate them when ever the mood strikes me. my last one was up for about two weeks, the one before that almost a year!

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Posted by Geared Steam on Monday, March 24, 2008 2:22 PM

The Milwaukee Road bridge over the Columbia in Beverly WA.

David Honan is the photographer.

 

 

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Posted by Kenfolk on Monday, March 24, 2008 2:14 PM

One of the many things I enjoy is photography, particularly lighthouses. So this shot (taken from the top of a lighthouse, by the way) currently graces my desktop. 

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