Trackside Photographer Article

[CopCarSS]

Hello All,

Sorry it's been awhile since I've been here. Life's been crazy hectic again.

I'm again honored to be the featured contributor for the week over at The Trackside Photographer — a site that focuses on railroad photography less centered on trains/locomotives. Articles are published every Thursday with occasional additional articles. If you haven't had a chance to stop by, I'd highly recommend checking it out. Editor Edd Fuller has featured some amazing photographers/authors and I'm truly humbled to be counted among them.

My article for the week is about the people I've encountered trackside and features a set of B&W images of crews/passengers and even an appearance by Kalmbach's own Drew Halverson! It can be found here:

http://thetracksidephotographer.com/2017/02/16/trackside-people/

Hope everyone is well!

Chris

[diningcar]

Thanks Chris for capturing everyday events and peoples response to them.

Having 'been there, done that', it would be so very interesting to see through photographs the railroaders performing their everyday work. But that would take permission of the RR to be on their property and subject to the same dangers those railroad workers face. Not likely to happen unless you are employed by the RR.

[ChuckCobleigh]

Thanks for the link.  As I've heard said, "You done good."  Some familiar pictures and some not-so-familiar that you shared with a new audience and I'm quite sure they appreciated your selections.

Once again, I draw the favorable comparison to O. Winston Link, who recognized that the "people connection" to railroad photography was of utmost importance.  That, and the need to tell a story with an image.

I know I said it at the top of my reply, but thanks again for sharing with the forum and the "other" audience.

[samfp1943]

Thanks, Chris, for sharing some terrific photos! 

           I am constantly amazed at the details, and interests in Black&White photos.  Appreciate your view on the 'passing parade'

[K. P. Harrier]

CopCarSS (2-16):

Cool photos!

You’ve been gone for so long some here thought you had died!  I for one, because you did not respond to a thread made especially for you.  It currently is on Page 11 of this forum, but the link doesn't work herein.

Don’t get eaten by any lions out there …

Best,

K.P.

PS:  Use outside of the TRAINS forums: 

http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/t/259231.aspx

[Electroliner 1935]

Thanks Chris. Great photo's and I like them.  I can relate to the child reaching for the conductors cap as I have had mine appreciated by kids. And as I take the BNSF commuter trains in Chicago, that is a familiar view that you captured. I wonder if the Rochelle car is being moved by a trackmobile. Also, I learned something I didn't know. You list your location as fourteener country. I had never heard of that term but looked it up and found what it means. So thenks, I leared something new. I wish I had taken photos when I drove over Rollins Pass back in the 70's. I don't think one can do that today.