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.