Picture time 11/12/21
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2021 7:55 pm
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Re: Picture time 11/12/21
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2021 7:56 pm
Re: Picture time 11/12/21
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2021 8:50 pm
Nice. I know that country! If I was not so tickled with SoCal, I might be in Raton. I have flown the pass at track level multiple times and on Amtrak once at 10 mph.
Re: Picture time 11/12/21
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2021 9:25 pm
Re: Picture time 11/12/21
Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2021 12:22 am
Nice looking trains, I'm unfamiliar with the manufacturer of the E units, very nice models did they offer them with B units?
The first photo in particular certainly imparts the sense of speed with the slight blur of the landscape suggesting a panned shot , well done!
The first photo in particular certainly imparts the sense of speed with the slight blur of the landscape suggesting a panned shot , well done!
Re: Picture time 11/12/21
Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2021 6:43 am
If we were to be so presumptuous (and why not? Grin!) as to turn this into a vote your favourite of the three, I’m firmly casting mine for #1. Often, less drama is better. Lovely.
Re: Picture time 11/12/21
Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2021 10:55 am
I'm pleased you enjoy it Sarge 
Re: Picture time 11/12/21
Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2021 11:08 pm
I'm not a fan of the early E's with those slant pilots, but the scenery in number 2 is amazingly realistic! Put an E7 or E8 out there and it would be prefect!
Re: Picture time 11/12/21
Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2021 11:54 pm
Funny - me too. My interest starts and ends at E7s. Then I go to Alcos and F-M. Still, evocative photos.
Re: Picture time 11/12/21
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2021 12:57 pm
Each to their own. I am an equal-opportunity admirer of all the E-units. As long as the unit at the head-end is historically appropriate for the consist, I'm in.
Erik, you are in league by yourself. My doorstops and I will watch and cheer from the stands.
Jim
Erik, you are in league by yourself. My doorstops and I will watch and cheer from the stands.
Jim
Re: Picture time 11/12/21
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2021 1:15 pm
It would be horrible if we all liked only the same things. There are not enough redheads to go around - good thing I like Greeks.
I think the DL-109 and those feathered Lehigh Valley Pacifics are atrocities, and the weird commuter trains now running out of Portland, Oregon, belong in a museum of the absolute ugliest creations of mankind ever, but others love them.
I think the DL-109 and those feathered Lehigh Valley Pacifics are atrocities, and the weird commuter trains now running out of Portland, Oregon, belong in a museum of the absolute ugliest creations of mankind ever, but others love them.
Re: Picture time 11/12/21
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2021 5:09 pm
It would be boring, yes.
I personally love a PA and found green NH DL-109s to be elegant, almost delicate in their appearance. Love ‘em both as well as a slant-nose E; I remember them on L&N as a kid visiting my mother’s family.
I don’t know why but (heresy, I know) the EMD bulldog nose really never excited me. Now, a bunch of NYC FA’s, even mixed with RS-3s, bellowing up to the summit of the Berkshires was a sight and sound to excite the soul!
I personally love a PA and found green NH DL-109s to be elegant, almost delicate in their appearance. Love ‘em both as well as a slant-nose E; I remember them on L&N as a kid visiting my mother’s family.
I don’t know why but (heresy, I know) the EMD bulldog nose really never excited me. Now, a bunch of NYC FA’s, even mixed with RS-3s, bellowing up to the summit of the Berkshires was a sight and sound to excite the soul!