I'm really looking forward to this winter. Romping around in snow railfanning is the best, isn't it? Somehow I've been so far behind that I'm still editing photos from last winter, but it sure makes me happy about this one.
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I recall some of your photo's being posted last winter, they looked great. I too like to romp in the snow for photo's. Many railfans in my area hibernate in the winter, they don't know what they are missing. Here along Lake Erie and her snow machine, it makes for some nice scenery photo's that just happen to have a train in them. Hope to see more of your work this year!
Oh, they'll be coming! I'm glad you're looking forward to it. I hope that the power's a little bit less ratty this year. (Ha!)
While I, too, have turned out some decent winter pics, I've also waded through knee deep snow cleaning off the air intakes of HEP gensets and digging out switches....
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Very nice railroad shot. Sunshine really makes everything bright and very scenic background behind the main subject of the photo.
Looking forward to Winter....No, for sure, not me. I've seen a lot of 'em, but I'd much rather be heading into Spring and sights such as colorful blossoms, and the wakening green of bushes and grass.
Quentin
I think snow is wonderful! When I look at Mount Charleston, 25 miles west and 9,000 feet higher than my humble abode, it sure looks nice.
Especially when I'm standing down here railfanning the LA&SL in my short-sleeved shirt - in February.
Chuck
I am also looking forward to winter. Don't have to hang ice jewlery on the big truckor pour alky in the service line to keep air lines from freezing up and knock frosen slush off brake arms. Most of all hoping to find a safe place to get off the road in a blizzard or whiteout. Yes I love winter time.
Cannonball
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
As miserable as my commute will become, I'm looking forward to shooting it for an article I'm working on for Trains!
Yeah boy, if it ever snows ankle deep in Columbia, South Carolina I plan to romp in it! Until then, I'll settle for romping in 70 degree temps, cloudless blue skies, lots of sunshine!!!!!
It snowed today! There's already a lot in the mountains, but this is really the first time it's snowed in the city.
I also uploaded one more of my backlog to celebrate the occasion.
You folks in the stable climates are lucky. You know what kind of winter you'll have and can move if you don't like it. Here in the center of the US, we never know what kind of winter we'll have. One year it will be mild and warm, the next year we'll have snow up to our hips.
One year, when I was on the Police, we had a blizzard. The Wabash main line was snowed up and a gasoline truck went belly up on a crossing. I knew the Cannonball was due, (tells you how long ago this was) so I grabbed a sealed beam flashlight and a fusee and went running east on the tracks as fast as I could. I got them stopped in plenty of time and the truck was hauled off. I got a lot of pats on the back and congratulations from the train crew, and my Sergeant and Captain.
What I never told anyone, until now, was that I was trying to put as much space as I could between me and that truck.
I don't know what your definition of 'stable' is, but I think that you experience on a yearly basis what we experience bi-weekly. It's not uncommon for it to be 30 degrees below one day, 40 degrees above two days later, and don't forget the June and July snowfalls...or December heat waves...
Ishmael What I never told anyone, until now, was that I was trying to put as much space as I could between me and that truck.
Sounds like a very wise move on your part.
- Erik
Must agree as the Barnum Bailey red train just went southbound thru Rockwood, Tn at 12:45 today.
trainboyH16-44 I don't know what your definition of 'stable' is, but I think that you experience on a yearly basis what we experience bi-weekly. It's not uncommon for it to be 30 degrees below one day, 40 degrees above two days later, and don't forget the June and July snowfalls...or December heat waves...
Sounds like north Florida/south Georgia (except we're warmer, thank goodness). One night within the last two weeks, at 11:00 PM it was colder in Tallahassee than in Caribou, ME or Fargo, ND. At Christmas, you never know if you will be in shorts or heavy jackets, and the two can come less than 48 hours apart. It is not unusual to have the heat on first thing in the morning, the A/C on at midday, and the heat on again at bedtime. Snow isn't a problem - when it happens once every 30-40 years, everyone loses the capacity for rational thought and everything shuts down. Snow in July would be a blessing - by then it has already been miserably hot for two months, will be miserable for at least two more months, and snow would be welcomed with open arms. It's 79 degrees as I write this . . .
This kinda confirms something I heard a while back: many people up north actually LIKE cold weather.
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Could be but not ALL of them, that's for sure!!!
(I is one, and I DON'T like it!! And no, I can't move.---- I'll survive.)
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