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Posted by MisterBeasley on Monday, March 24, 2008 2:12 PM
 SpaceMouse wrote:
 Don Z wrote:

1000th Post!!! Do I get a check or something?

I've gotten 9 so far. If you don't get it by the end of the week, I'd write Bergie.

I've gotten 6 big checks from Bergie.  I invested them all in mortgage-backed securities with Bear-Stearns.  Boy, am I gonna clean up.

This is mine, from my own layout:

 

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Posted by Cannoli on Monday, March 24, 2008 1:52 PM
I rotate my images once a week or so, at the moment it is one that I took quite a while back but is one of my favorites, please pardon my poor photography skills and lack of decent camera at the time Smile [:)] . A great site I often find images from is http://photos.nerail.org.

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Posted by Looshi on Monday, March 24, 2008 1:47 PM

This is a shot I took last Saturday at a crossing in Middletown, Ohio. Not professional by any means, but good enough for my desktop.


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Posted by lvanhen on Monday, March 24, 2008 1:44 PM

How about this for a desktop!!Big Smile [:D] From the photo gallery section of the Polar Express site http://polarexpressmovie.warnerbros.com/  Cool [8D]

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Monday, March 24, 2008 1:34 PM

This is my desktop image for now. I generally change them about every two or three months.

 

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Posted by Pathfinder on Monday, March 24, 2008 1:20 PM

 I took this photo in Lillooet BC in the fall of 2006.  The CN train (ex BC Rail) is heading north towards Prince George.  The rear of the train is still down on the yard.  I quite like the way the ditch lights shine of the rail although this is tough to see with the desktop icons in the way.  Photo was taken with a Canon AE1 on Kodak 200 speed print film and transferred to digital when developed.

 

 

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Posted by SpaceMouse on Monday, March 24, 2008 12:55 PM
 Don Z wrote:

1000th Post!!! Do I get a check or something?

I've gotten 9 so far. If you don't get it by the end of the week, I'd write Bergie.

Chip

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Posted by Don Z on Monday, March 24, 2008 12:43 PM

Sorry, not train related at the present time. It's a photo I took on the west side of Wolfcreek Pass, CO.

Don Z.

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Posted by Tilden on Monday, March 24, 2008 12:34 PM
  I change my desktop about once a week too.  Currently I have a picture of UP 71, a DD35A, leading two GP30B's and a GE U50C, and pulling a freight across the Green River Bridge, Wyoming.
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Posted by selector on Monday, March 24, 2008 12:14 PM

Very nice image, Mouse. Tongue [:P]

I have used several, including ones from fallenflags that I can't post here for copyright reasons.  But, just as often I'll use one of my own latest modelling images for the simple reason that at that full screen size I have all the zits plainly visible and I get to have them ingrained every time I turn on the computer or get out of a programme.

So, the latest is my latest:

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Posted by Robby P. on Monday, March 24, 2008 12:09 PM

I normally change my backdrop once a week.  Right now I have a hopper I took of when I was visiting in NC.  This car was in SC on a siding.  Talk about a white out (pun intended) Whistling [:-^]

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Show your desktop (Photo Intensive)
Posted by SpaceMouse on Monday, March 24, 2008 12:00 PM

What do you use as a backdrop? Here does it come from?

Mine is a public domain photo from the library of congress. It is the Chicago Round house in the 40's.

Chip

Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.

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