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Trackside with Trains Vol. 260: "Crazy consists" is LIVE

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Trackside with Trains Vol. 260: "Crazy consists" is LIVE
Posted by D-Halv on Monday, June 1, 2015 8:53 AM
Good morning,

This week's Trackside with Trains theme "crazy consists" is open for viewing and voting. 

http://trn.trains.com/photos-videos/trackside/2015/06/crazy-consists

Good luck to this week's eight participants!

 

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Monday, June 8, 2015 12:07 PM

I went with Michael Berry's photo.  It has a good mix of locomotive models and liveries to add some color to the sameness of an oil train.

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Posted by edblysard on Monday, June 8, 2015 3:33 PM

Went with Dons' shot...while Anthony's was very colorful, it was not a consist....Don's was, and had the "best" mix of motive power.

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Posted by LYLE WALTER on Monday, June 8, 2015 3:48 PM

So this train has not run in a month or so.... I guess that explains why we are paying CDN $1.14.9 a liter for gasoline here in Ottawa.  Thats equal to about US $3.80. and all along I was buying the wild fires in Alberta excuse.

Great picture!!You have my vote.

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Posted by tree68 on Monday, June 8, 2015 10:04 PM

I went with Don's shot as well - although Mike's came in a close second.  In fact, I had to check my cell phone to see if I had the same consist as shot at Utica a while back.  

Turned out that the only thing the two shots had in common was a BC Rail "Draper Taper" unit following a CN unit...

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Posted by cx500 on Friday, June 12, 2015 6:11 PM

I picked Michael Berry's over Don's, mostly because you could see the various locomotives better.  The museum train of cabooses I discounted as a novelty than true railroading.

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Posted by zardoz on Friday, June 12, 2015 8:38 PM

I went with Michael's.  I liked the composition, the subject matter, and the location with the same type of housing unit repeating into the distance, just like the repeating tank cars. But what I first noticed about this image was the sharpness. I bet the hi-res version of that photo is really amazing!

Gary image was my runner-up. There are alot of things in his photo to keep one quite interested for a while (like what's with the road grade crossing protection sign at the clearance point for the spur?)

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