The latest round of our biweekly photo contest, Trackside with Trains.com, is now live. Six of our 14 photographers submitted entries for the theme: Junctions.
View the selection and vote for your favorite here.
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Carl
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This was a difficult one for me. So many unique, good photographs, and including the theme, Junction.
Just had to bite the bullet, and go for Andy's rendition. Like the photograph, as I did most of the others....I note how quick the grade separates after the "junction", just something of "railroading" for me....and it is an overall good photo to my liking....But some of the others are too....
Had to settle on one.
Quentin
I closed my eyes, flipped a coin three times, and turned around and came up with Alex's over Andy's. Point of Rocks is classic junction of two rail lines, several era's of technology, and lot's of history. It's a shame none of the LIRR junctions around Jamaica or the nee NY and H and NY, NH & H or classic PRR junctions were depected. So after Alex's it was Andy's classic sylvan setting of a branch wandering off and down into the woods. Closest toss up contest ever here for me.
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Interesting theme. Elrond had my vote until I saw Andy Cumming's shot. Cool!
Dan
Somewhere I had already seen Alex's shot, and I really liked it then. I still do. I'm just not sure why. Composition, lighting, historical location, implied movement, or all of the above?
Jim's shot is really unique! It looks so much like a "N"-gauge layout.
The others were ok, but didn't elicit any emotional response from me.
Voted for Alex.
Jim, Andy, Alex?
Andy, Alex, Jim?
Alex, Jim, Andy?
Oh I don't know. Having lived in Europe the Swiss picture is so . . . well. Swiss.
And I like the Old/New side by side in Alex's picture.
But Andy's reminds me of home in the midwest.
OK. Andy.
A mile from the tracks, but I still hear the whistle! Cleveland, Tennessee
I must go with Alex. I live about 10 miles from Point-of-Rocks and have a watercolor of the station in our family room.
Alex is right. It's a neat place and close to the C&O canal if you are into hiking or biking.
Jim H
Things that SAY "junction" didn't do much for me, so that narrowed my options considerably and I wound up with Alex and Andy in a dead heat.
I opted for Andy's only because it had a bit more of a mysterious element to it...insofar as that little line leaving the main looked like it would be a lot more interesting and less predictable than the high rail in Alex' shot. Does that make any sense? It did to me.
TJB in Nashville
I went with David Lustig's photo. Railroading is very much a tradition-bound business, even with its technological advances. The office behind the door is modern and indistinguishable from thousands of others but the sign on the door breathes "Railroad HQ" by its very style.
FYI: KINDA LIKED "DOOR #2". Guess am pro ICE/DME even though don't live in IOWAY/DAKOTA ANYMORE.
GOOD TO SEE A "SPIFFY" ICE SD IN THE LEAD... W/COUPLE FADED "REDS"... Only one didn't like was: THE FOTO OF A SIGN ON A DOOR... As a Producer/Reporter-Photog with 3 decades and a few "atta boys" to my credit: WE WERE TAUGHT "NEVER" TO SHOOT SIGNS ETC... Unless u were out of foto ops' to cover the story. Stand alone shot like that: PUTS ME TO SLEEP... BORING! Sorry. Will exit soap box and head back to Bama's still pristine "GOLD COAST".
CIAO
DASADLER
Please don't use this lime green for posts...it's too doggone hard for us old guys to read. LOL
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davefingerFYI: KINDA LIKED "DOOR #2". Guess am pro ICE/DME even though don't live in IOWAY/DAKOTA ANYMORE. <snip> GOOD TO SEE A "SPIFFY" ICE SD IN THE LEAD... W/COUPLE FADED "REDS"... Only one didn't like was: THE FOTO OF A SIGN ON A DOOR... As a Producer/Reporter-Photog with 3 decades and a few "atta boys" to my credit: WE WERE TAUGHT "NEVER" TO SHOOT SIGNS ETC... Unless u were out of foto ops' to cover the story. Stand alone shot like that: PUTS ME TO SLEEP... BORING! Sorry. Will exit soap box and head back to Bama's still pristine "GOLD COAST". CIAO DASADLER
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