Thursday Proto Photo, Jul 28/11

[Lenny53]

[conrailthomas519]

Great photo! Very attractive with its color.  A nice inspiration guide for a simplistic modeling scene. Do you intend to model that scene?

[up1950s]

Geez Lenny53 , that shot looks more like a drawing than the real deal because if the crispness in the entire DOF .

[packers#1]

Lenny, uhm, DANGGGGGGG that's a great shot!
so this is definitely not to the level of lenny's shot; I snapped this with my cell phone back in the fall last year. I was shocked to see a dash-8, because all i'd seen before is Geeps, Geeps, and more Geeps. From my understanding there's a branch line with a couple of kaolin clay mines and then a few other industries as well. I guess this is what happens when railroads have really advanced their loco rosters

[Ntrainz1]

I was in Ontario last week for work




Bob.

[wcfn100]

A couple more shots from my last trip.








Jason

[Guilford Guy]

Ah, those CDAC units. Funny how the former Bangor & Aroostook experienced a huge shift from EMD to GE power with the MM&A purchase.
On Tuesday I biked over 30 miles on hilly New England roads to shoot some Pan Am equipment.
POED in West Chelmsford. The 2nd unit has a snoot nose.



I then continued biking west to Westford, where the Nashua Acton & Boston (which ceased operations in 1925) crossed what's now the Pan Am freight main, and the Stony Brook Electric Railway. Here my bike is on the trolley line, with the abutments belonging to the NA&B and the PAR line out of frame to the left.

And just south of here is a massive stone arch bridge on the NA&B. My bike is at the top for reference.


Lastly I made it to Ayer station to catch an inbound train back in the direction of my house, though a couple outbounds came by before hand running wrong iron.

[up1950s]

Proof that sometimes I do leave the house are these taken at 2:30PM today while waiting for my wife at the eye God on Roosevelt Ave , Valley Stream , looking east . This is the Far Rockaway branch just south of Sunrise Highway . Not the best of settings at all , but that's the way the cookie crumbles .

[wcfn100]

Double dip for me.  As I was driving home, I caught a BNSF train with some heavy flats at the front.  So home I went to get the camera.  I caught up to it about seven miles out of town.

Jason