Favorite Steam Engine Shot

That's genuine railroading, Don.  Thanks for posting it.

He's obviously got his eye on the road ahead and on the exhaust stack, but you can bet that he has been taken back to his youth in a unique way that few can experience.  All his aches and pains are gone this day!

Here's my favorite steam loco shot...

My good friend, former OGR staffer and fellow 765 crew member George Seil took this photo.

I love it because of the "mood" of the shot (a foggy morning in Huntington, West Virginia), but also because of the two people standing there. It gives you a great sense of perspective showing how big the 765 is.

This is one of over 200 photos that appear in my 765 book.

Although I've posted this previously, here's mine from 1984 on the New Orleans World's Fair Daylight (photo taken with my Pentax 6X7 camera by Doyle McCormack).

@Hot Water posted:

Although I've posted this previously, here's mine from 1984 on the New Orleans World's Fair Daylight (photo taken with my Pentax 6X7 camera by Doyle McCormack).

Wow.. Nice picture!! Is that you Hot Water??

@Woodson posted:

Wow.. Nice picture!!

Thanks.

Is that you Hot Water??

Yes, 36 years ago.

Here's mine: 

October 5, 2019 was a day I was kindly reminded why C.E. Pond and the rest of the team in the N&W Motive Power department produced some of the finest pieces of motive power in the history of American railroading. 

@Hot Water posted:

Although I've posted this previously, here's mine from 1984 on the New Orleans World's Fair Daylight (photo taken with my Pentax 6X7 camera by Doyle McCormack).

I see the throttle is in the “company notch.” Love it!

Here's one of mine:

Rusty

@Rich Melvin posted:

I see the throttle is in the “company notch.” Love it!

Darn right! And note where the reverse gear is, and the steam chest pressure gauge is reading. Speed wast probably 65 to 70 MPH, eastbound on the SP main line across Arizona, if I remember correctly.

@Hot Water posted:

Darn right! And note where the reverse gear is, and the steam chest pressure gauge is reading. Speed wast probably 65 to 70 MPH, eastbound on the SP main line across Arizona, if I remember correctly.

Oh yeah...I noticed that, too. You’ve  got ‘er hooked up just right for that speed, Jack!

My favorite shot (of mine) is from chasing the UP 4014 exactly one year ago, when they made their big Southwestern tour.  We caught up with it in SW Utah - this shot is from Milford, UT after they had tied down for the night.

I posted a series of pictures from our chase about a year ago on OGR.  As it turned out, I didn't have any really good shots with it under steam.  My all-time favorite pictures of 4014 from that tour are the snow pictures taken by Erik Lindgren in Colorado near the end of the tour and posted here.

- Rich

PM 1225 with the bell mounted upside down. 

765 was stopped to load passengers but that didn't stop the horses from fearing for their lives.  Clearly this was some sort of fire breathing monster.

I'm afraid I can't boil it down to just one ...but here's one that makes me smile every time I look at it...so ya wanna be a movie star???

I do not have many from which to choose, but here's mine.

That morning I was wearing a white shirt, clean vest, and a new fedora, all of which got covered in cinders...and I truly did not care.   :-)

Once in a lifetime chance for us Easterners to see this magnificent machine. Caught her just East of West Chicago and without people/fans in the photo!

And, our favorite all-time locomotive at Strasburg, PA. Long live the J-611!

2009 TrainFestival Owasso, Mi.  #110 in the pouring rain.
Dennis

Can't boil down one particular favorite, but I've loved this one lately.

A pair of volunteers create a stamping on a connecting rod of Reading 2100.

Inside the cab of Durango and Silverton 482

Ken

@TrainMan1225 posted:

Can't boil down one particular favorite, but I've loved this one lately.

A pair of volunteers create a stamping on a connecting rod of Reading 2100.

OK, please explain just why they are stamping ANYTHING into a side/main rod.

The 765 at Lasalle Station 2018.

 In the cab of NKP 765

@Hot Water posted:

OK, please explain just why they are stamping ANYTHING into a side/main rod.

It was to denote where the rod was mounted. I do not recall that there were any other visible stampings denoting this. This was done under the supervision of our running gear contractor, Dan Pluta.

Arcade and Attica 18 on Father's Day a few years ago.  She's always been my favorite 

@naresar posted:

765 was stopped to load passengers but that didn't stop the horses from fearing for their lives.  Clearly this was some sort of fire breathing monster.

Was this taken near the Bedford Reservation in Ohio?

My pictures.

Here's a couple that I am fond of that I took.  Both being the 765.

765 through the cut in West Park, Pittsburgh's North Side.  Never in my lifetime did I think I'd see a steam engine pass through here again.

765 approach to the Ohio Connecting Railroad Bridge northwest of Pittsburgh.

Here's a closeup of my dad, daughter, and 611 back in 1982 when it came into Norfolk:

Also at Lambert's Point 1982:

(need a people filter for my camera)

Plus a photo I took of N&W 4-8-0 #1134 in Portsmouth taken just a couple of years ago:

@GeoPeg posted:

Was this taken near the Bedford Reservation in Ohio?

That was at the Brecksville Station on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic which is in the national park there.

I took these on a Karl Franz photo special on the Cass Scenic.   

Here are a few of mine from 2000 featuring CPR # 2816 coming Eastbound from Vancouver for the  first time under Steam

  It was incredible to hear a steam engine barking up grade through the Spiral Tunnels
Up to the Continental Divide at Stephen

    Al

My Dad and our Son with the 614 at Somerset, Pa:

The 734 working upgrade:

And from the way-back machine the 2124 and 2100 on a photo-runby somewhere near Tamaqua, Pa:

Black Hills Central 104 at work:

Remembered another one of my favorite shots of 765.

I’m the furthest left near the cab.

I took both of these photos.

Engineer oils around on N&W number 475 at Strasburg, PA.

N&W J class 611 at Manassas, VA. in 2015.  

Here is the Pere Marquette 1225 • Berkshire

At Howell, Michigan

Gary 🚂

@trainroomgary posted:

Here is the Pere Marquette 1225 • Berkshire

At Howell, Michigan

Gary 🚂

I really have to get to your side of the state for several reasons.

Strasburg #90 pre-trip lubrication:

Tom

I've got all kinds of steam locomotive shots, including several of 4014 which I am proud of, but this one has the most meaning to me.

This is a 2.5" scale steamer that my grandfather built just before his passing in 1993.  This photo was January of this year, the 1st time it had been back on rails at the local club since his passing (27 years).  Within a month of this shot it was cleaned up, inspected, lubed, and fired.  It ran like a Swiss watch.  As much as I love all steam locomotives, this will always be near and dear to me not just because I can run it whenever I want, but because it was made by the man that gave me my love of all things trains.

I might have posted this before... 765 on the Erie Limited in western New York...

On a trip several years ago.

We visited the East Broad Top almost 17 years ago, and these have been favorites for a long time. In spite of hundreds of photos of WMSR 734, these I like very much.

Oilin' Around:

The 1912 Baldwin and the dress of the engineer all add to a time of another era!

Ed

A few years ago at Webster, Va.

...or maybe this one.

@Big Jim posted:

A few years ago at Webster, Va.

Something appears seriously wrong with the up-load of your two phots. They seem "blotchy" or maybe the pixels are distorted somehow.

@Hot Water posted:

Something appears seriously wrong with the up-load of your two phots. They seem "blotchy" or maybe the pixels are distorted somehow.

Then, lay off of the "Red Cap"! 😉

Looking at the image names they appear to have been "retouched" with a watercolor tool.  Interesting.

May 5, 2007, Western Maryland Scenic  My picture from the bike trail. 

Mike, your pic has a certain familiar feel to it.

I took these pics from atop the tender of Alder Gulch #12 (where we were riding):

Here's a couple more shots of steam. Don

No Contest.  I'm standing up in the tender and my Father is at the throttle.

Here is one my Dad took when I was very little, he worked for the SP at that time as a signal maintainer and road around on a speeder.  I now own all of the negatives plus the original 11 X 14 B&W prints that he made.  These have always been one of my favorite locomotives.  It's been so long since he told me I don't recall which place this shot was taken

Here is another shot that you don't see very often, this was right outside the backshops in El Paso, TX

@J. Motts posted:

Here is another shot that you don't see very often, this was right outside the backshops in El Paso, TX

Tough neighborhood! Even the locomotive's alarm didn't deter the bad guys. They stripped her down and put her on blocks.

Seriously, it's a great shot.

Rusty