I took these pictures at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn (2007). I wasn't into trains at the time. All I remember is that I was the only person in there. It's in a decommissioned subway station. I need to go back now.
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Best?
I was never able to take photos that qualify as "best"... mainly I took slob shots and did the best I could. That so, here's one from a perspective that I always enjoyed.
Coming out of the tunnel into Winslow, AR...
Andre
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@laming posted:Best?
I was never able to take photos that qualify as "best"... mainly I took slob shots and did the best I could. That so, here's one from a perspective that I always enjoyed.
Coming out of the tunnel into Winslow, AR...
Andre
Laming that is a great shot. If was mine would enlarge it to at least a 16 X 20.
Ron
Thanks for the kind words, there Ron.
In keeping with the "hoggin' in the snow" theme, I've always liked this one. It shows just what a ground crew has to deal with during nasty weather...
Once in engine service, I loved days like this as long as the heaters in the engine were good ones and I had ample hot, black, coffee in my Stanley thermal bottle. Sure, I felt for the ground crews, but I paid my dues "out there", so I figured they could too.
I still have my Stanley thermos. It's like an old friend that I don't visit much anymore... but have very fond memories of. Here's a pic of Old Faithful after all the decades of hard use. That thing has even took trips to the ballast when exiting the cab door with my grip/etc and it came unhooked from its anchor point on the grip...
Even in its bruised and battered condition, there at the last of my engine service it would still hold my jug of coffee hot enough to drink almost to the end of a hog law day.
Indeed an old friend.
Andre
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@laming posted:Thanks for the kind words, there Ron.
In keeping with the "hoggin' in the snow" theme, I've always liked this one. It shows just what a ground crew has to deal with during nasty weather...
Once in engine service, I loved days like this as long as the heaters in the engine were good ones and I had ample hot, black, coffee in my Stanley thermal bottle. Sure, I felt for the ground crews, but I paid my dues "out there", so I figured they could too.
I still have my Stanley thermos. It's like an old friend that I don't visit much anymore... but have very fond memories of. Here's a pic of Old Faithful after all the decades of hard use. That thing has even took trips to the ballast when exiting the cab door with my grip/etc and it came unhooked from its anchor point on the grip...
Even in its bruised and battered condition, there at the last of my engine service it would still hold my jug of coffee hot enough to drink almost to the end of a hog law day.
Indeed an old friend.
Andre
This should be enlarged and hung next to the previous one.
Ron
Speaking of ground crews Andre, I took this photo on an interchange track in Cadillac, Michigan on the Michigan Northern Railroad in February 1982
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Thanks Ron. I don't know if I'll ever frame any of my stuff... but it does bring back memories to view them in their respective folders. So, that's a good thing.
Jerry:
Wooo boy, does that ever look cold. That brings back mental images of having to use a fusee to thaw out a frozen switch lock. Been there, done that, more times that I can remember!
Railroading is a tough business and the lazy, or creature comfort loving, need not apply.
I sure miss it at times, though.
Andre
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When I was a Trainmaster at Enola Yard. 2011 when the Heritage Units were just released:
Norfolk Southern Day at the Pennsylvania Railroad Museum in Strasburg, PA