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well anyone goin to trainfest in milwaukee?
im planning on sunday dont know for sure though
Well, I haven't done much railfanning since last weekend but I have taken the time to go back through the archives and it worked quite nicely. The result: Two rare trains on Railpictures, and both of them were shots I thought didn't have a chance. Here they are but I'm just posting the links this time as I admit I went overboard with photos last page.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=210912&nseq=0
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=210385&nseq=2
What I saw on the Delaware Lackawanna, which only owns Alcos, is one thing I am looking forward to with the MNNR.
I see what you mean about the first one, the light's fairly bland (And I see you know the B&W for cloudy trick!) but I think the second one's fine. I would have tried to use more zoom (was that possible?) but the light's great and the power's interesting, and it's fairly well composed.
Anyways, I got a pair of C30-7s in LS&I today! I'm absolutely ecstatic, and they sound GREAT! I think I'll take the lamps downstairs and snap some pics so I can post them in a month or two
Well, here are the photos from today.
KCS Southern Belle SD70ACe head east through Mazon.
A few seconds after the engines cleared the bridge another eastbound with another great consist on the other track showed up with a pair of BN GP15-1s and a GP60B.
The eastbound train with the GP15-1s caused the KCS to have to stop and wait for it to clear in order to cross back over to the correct eastbound main at Coal City. Here are two more shots of the KCS from when it was stopped just outside of Coal City.
Back at the bridge, a NS C40-8W in patched LMSX paint heads east.
A pair of BNSF H1 Dash 9s head under the grain silos in Ransom, IL.
More trains came other then these but nothing else really good. Quite a successful day!
Robby, nice pictures. I really like the KCS scheme.
Well I'm considering a new camera scene mines falling apart and the MP is very low. What one would you recommend. I know I don't want a 7-8 MP, it would be nice, but WAY to much our of my price range. I was thinking a 6 MP, but would a 5 MP be just as good? Plus how much would a 5 or 6 MP camera cost? Thanks for your help.
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well next friday goin to madtown
NL beat clintonville 28-0 today & playin for the D3 state championship
hopefully ill get some trains in madison & the WSOR line runs right past camp randall stadium.
Jordan, I have two 5 MP cameras right now, a Kodak and a Olympus. I've had them both for about two years now. Both of them are very reliable I must say. 5 MPs is plenty good for me. Maybe someday I'll go up to a 6 or 7, but it will probably be a Kodak like my current one, and that probably won't be until either the current one breaks (I hope that doesn't happen!) or I just feel like getting something different.
Brent, I believe there is a WSOR yard somewhere in Madison. I've never been there myself and I don't know how accessable it is. Noah would probably be able to tell you that more then me.
I'm liking what I've seen the last 5 years with class ones reverting to old paint schemes, CSX with YN3 (looks just like C&O), UP with the wings (not the flag!) and the heritage engines, NS with their F9s, and now KCS with the Southern Belle. Now we just need BNSF, CP, and CN to do something neat like that, even though I like CP becuase they have their own steam engine, F9s, the Holiday Train, and lots of power still in Soo Line paint.
Matt, LS&I! Oooo! I'll be waiting for those pictures sometime next month!
Brent, Sundays in Madison on the WSOR is a pretty slow day. No AM job, and really the only train running is the PM job that goes on duty around 1500 for a run North to Reedsburg. Lately though they haven't been getting out of the yard until well after dark.
The line by Camp Randall goes out to Prarie Du Chein via Middleton, Mazomaine, etc, eventually. Normally the AM job spots coal loads at the UW power plant near the stadium, but since there isn't one on Sunday, there usually isn't anything out that way.
Your best bet to see anything WSOR is to check out the Johnson Street yard (the corner of Fordem and Johnson Street). There probably won't be much moving, but you might be able to see a couple of WSOR engines and maybe the bilevels from the edge of the yard. I wouldn't advise going back into the yard, but you can usually pull into the driveway and shoot anything from that edge.
Well, I chased the SOO Line 1003 today, and despite the clouds, I still got a few decent photos out of the chase, along with a couple of freight shots. Hopefully I'll get them edited and posted sometime tomorrow.
Noah
i did catch the local in new london today. it came earlier then usual but i got it on my way out to ashwaubenon. CN GP9 7044 was incharge today. & it ran long head forward.
ya ill be leavin early next friday the game is at 10 AM so prolly after ill stop at the yard.
Neat shots Robbie. I also caught that TFM unit leaving Northtown. Seems we see the same stuff all the time now!
Alec
WCfan wrote:Well I'm considering a new camera scene mines falling apart and the MP is very low. What one would you recommend. I know I don't want a 7-8 MP, it would be nice, but WAY to much our of my price range. I was thinking a 6 MP, but would a 5 MP be just as good? Plus how much would a 5 or 6 MP camera cost? Thanks for your help.
Don't judge on MP. There are cameras I wouldn't touch unless I was givin them away that are still 8 MP. I'd suggest one of the newer superzooms.
Seriously, why does everybody judge cameras by megapixels? That's one of the last specs I look at!
And Noah...they're pretending to be BN, so expect some mountain action
You know, I swear that the KCS scheme is the best to come out since...
Since...
I'm gonna aim for 1949 here.
It's a pretty wicked scheme.