Trackside with Trains, Vol. 87 with guest Jim Wrinn

[Rocket Man]

Gosh, I can't believe no one's mentioned anything about the abonimable snowman...

Actually Mike you have never looked more graceful than in that picture.  Disney on Ice will be calling for sure. 

Dave Nelson

With all due respect Dave, I disagree. The abominable snowman photo doesn't hold a candle to this:

 

http://www.trains.com/trn/objects/images/mike-yuhas.jpg

I rest my case.

[Green Mouintain Guy]

Good to see the three Acela units in Washington Union Station as most of us will never have the oppportunity but the W&S Geeps in the snow and cold, especially with me in comfort at home, was most interesting.  I am overdue in going up to Vermont to again see the Vermont Rail System in the snow.     Ed [e-mail]

[espeefoamer]

I guess I'm getting old enough to be a traditionalist,but I voted for Mike's local shot.The two geeps pulling a short string of covered hoppers in the snow really caught my eye.The bulbous noses of the Acelas reminded me of the blobs floating around in a lava lamp.( I guess I'm really showing my age here!) Jim,I really liked your CN night shot at Saukville.I would like to see this scene modeled and used as a center spread in Model Railroader.I would have voted for that picture.This is not the first time I have preferred a shot in the presentation portion of this contest to the actual entry.

[da Milwaukee beerNut]

Gosh, I can't believe no one's mentioned anything about the abonimable snowman...

With all due respect Dave, I disagree. The abominable snowman photo doesn't hold a candle to the ballerina!   

Thanks Rocket Man. The abominable tutu lensing the frigid snow-laden GP7 goose beak trumps three noses even Streisand could love (pretty as those were). PLOW specials all over the state - spreaders and wedge plows dormant for years rousted from hibernation. Trains embargoed due to skating rink grade crossings.

Musical WSOR 3801 in drift blasting vids earlier this month * this is Wisconsin's winter. 

Belch, the Butler dragon, is enjoying the most playing time he's had in years.

Stands-tall-without-ladder has another 4-6 weeks ahead to practice descent strategies.

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons simply 'cuz you're crunchy & taste good with ketchup.  

[dknelson]

Yes I posted without thinking.  Mike the ballerina is more graceful, more tender, more ethereal.    I guess Mike Yuhas just photographs well no matter what the circumstances ....  like some steam locomotives.

Dave Nelson

 

[WSOR 3801]

I feel Mike usually puts the wrong shots in for the contest.  Some of the other shots of us that day I feel would have been better. 

We hit a few more snow drifts that day.  Here is crew change at Random Lake.

 

[espeefoamer]

To this PRR guy,there is something very disturbing about a photo of catenary in the corridor shot from a NYC observation car.

[Ishmael]

I too liked Jim Wrinn's shots, but couldn't vote for the photos in Washington's Metro. That is my all time favorite city transit system, and I've ridden quite a few. The arrangement of their platforms, I thought, was a death blow for graffiti scribblers. And I especially like the fact that Metro stations are not dark and gloomy.

Of the two presented, I voted for Mike's for many of the above reasons, but mainly because it is more "railroady". The Acela photos, although technically excellent, could have been taken in an aircraft hangar.