Trackside Vol. 220 is live for viewing and voting.
Thirteen photos were selected for this round. Vote for your favorite here!
Remember, the winning photo will be featured in an upcoming issue of Trains magazine.
Drew
Oh come on! They are all the same photo only with different colors in different light...a train going across a bridge over a body of water. All except one, that is. One shows an engineer holding a bottle of water apparently to quench his thirst. Reader Tom Downey gets my vote for sure! It's not that the photographers weren't creative and imaginative but that the judges weren't.
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I can't honestly say that any of them were outstanding, but for some unexplainable reason I decided the Michael Berry entry merited my vote. Go figure. Considering the category, I expected better material. BTW...I almost voted for the engineer drinking the bottled water.
Tom in TN
Don, do you remember Barry Goldwater? Back in 1964, the "Biggest Loser" TV show would have been about him. I couldn't vote yet...Anyway, your picture got my vote. Plenty of water, a neat bridge, and a couple of neat old tank cars...all it took!
Carl
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I liked Jon Wright's taking advantage of the light from the sinking sun upon the water.
At first, I thought of voting for the crossing of Lake Pontchartrain, for it reminded me somewhat of my first crossing, in the summer of 1951, on Southern #43; of course at that time there were many fishing camps just west of the causeway, and I doubt that any remain now. When I went into New Orleans last month, it was too dark see much on the west side of the train.
Johnny
CShaveRR Don, do you remember Barry Goldwater? Back in 1964, the "Biggest Loser" TV show would have been about him. I couldn't vote yet...Anyway, your picture got my vote. Plenty of water, a neat bridge, and a couple of neat old tank cars...all it took!
I do remember Barry Goldwater! I was 8 in 1964 and remember seeing AuH2O scrawled all sorts of places, too.
I should have used "Gold-water" as the title and tied in the MEC "gold" locomotives with the waterfall via the AuH2O...oh well.
I believe the MEC was moving locomotive lube oil in those old tank cars, though I'm not certain.
We took a three day trip to go see the MEC and BAR. We used an article in Railfan as our guide. We started at South Station in Boston to catch the evening rush. Lots of interesting, decrepit things running then. The D&H PAs were there, still looking sharp. Was the last time I saw them. Then up to the MEC. Signed a waiver at the office in Portland and got the run of the place - even into the enginehouses. The MEC was really interesting. A wide variety of motive power, still substantial on-line traffic base, and that crazy mountain division (where Conway Scenic runs now).
-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/)
I didn't vote for any of them. Not a single photo of a port scene, where rail and water interact in the course of each of their businesses.
CSSHEGEWISCH I didn't vote for any of them. Not a single photo of a port scene, where rail and water interact in the course of each of their businesses.
I voted for the water bottle pic for the same reason, Paul. And I personally know they had at least one ferry boat and train picture to choose from, too.
While I agree that the "water as means for multi-modal transportation" is missing, I don't think all the shots except the water bottle are the same.
You have:
1. Water as obstacle to be overcome during construction - bridges
2. Water as temporary obstacle - flood
3. Water's physical property as a liquid - reflection
4. Water's physical property as a liquid - level grade for route construction
5. Water's physical property as a liquid - turbulent and laminar flow as artistic element - river and water fall.
6. Water to be harnessed for energy - dam.
The photo by Thomas Downey took the vote this week because it is the only different shot in the mix. Everything else is about a body of water near a train.
Thomas has shown the human side of trains in that crew need water as much as any locomotive does.
All the other shots were good in their way, but really reflect the same view of water. Hard to say which one takes 2nd place in this round.
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