Steam train

ThwackThwack Registered Users Posts: 487 Major grins
edited May 27, 2005 in Landscapes
This one was taken yesterday under very overcast skies (they really were as grey and boring as the picture implies).

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The full size original looks much better but is too huge to paste here. If you want to see the original, try this link: http://thwack.smugmug.com/photos/3409801-O.jpg

I know I have a similar view of another steam engine from the same place, but I don't have it uploaded yet.

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  • ThwackThwack Registered Users Posts: 487 Major grins
    edited April 13, 2004
    Another one
    This little steam engine was built in 1899 and has been in continuous service. On a steep grade, it reminds you of the storybook train and you want to start chanting, "I think I can, I think I can!". :D

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    The full size picture can be found at:

    http://thwack.smugmug.com/photos/3455116-O.jpg
  • SeamaidenSeamaiden Registered Users Posts: 339 Major grins
    edited April 13, 2004
    This might make a good place for some of my Jackson pictures (if you don't mind, Thwack, I'll wait for your blessings first). I plan on moving to Lake Tahoe this summer, in the meantime my boyfriend and I get together when/wherever we can. The last time was end of February while he was on a job deploying wireless access points in Jackson. It was the first time I'd gotten to play with my camera, but I was stuck on foot so only got to explore the downtown area.
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  • ThwackThwack Registered Users Posts: 487 Major grins
    edited April 13, 2004
    Post 'em, please. I don't mind sharing thread space.
  • SeamaidenSeamaiden Registered Users Posts: 339 Major grins
    edited April 14, 2004
    Thank you.

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  • SeamaidenSeamaiden Registered Users Posts: 339 Major grins
    edited April 14, 2004
    Part of downtown's building facades.
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  • ThwackThwack Registered Users Posts: 487 Major grins
    edited April 15, 2004
    No train pics?
  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited April 15, 2004
    sorry thwack...ive become a bit of a photoshop tart
  • SeamaidenSeamaiden Registered Users Posts: 339 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2004
    Thwack wrote:
    No train pics?
    Heh.. nope! Didn't even come across a track where I was.
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  • fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2004
    Roaring Camp is cool. It's about time for us to go back.
    "Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk." - Edward Weston
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  • ThwackThwack Registered Users Posts: 487 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2004
    Humungus wrote:
    sorry thwack...ive become a bit of a photoshop tart

    No apologies necessary. I like the tweaks you made to the pic...
  • fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2004
    My take...
    "Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk." - Edward Weston
    "The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."-Hunter S.Thompson
  • ThwackThwack Registered Users Posts: 487 Major grins
    edited May 21, 2005
    fish wrote:
    My take...

    Sorry for being slow to reply. I must've dozed off (for a year). :)

    Darned day job keeps getting in the way of having fun.

    I like the version you posted, Fish. It looks like it was taken in the Fall though instead of in the Spring. The loss of green really changes the season which I never would've expected...

    Kind of a cool thing to keep in mind. Thanks.
  • Aussie_blueyAussie_bluey Registered Users Posts: 593 Major grins
    edited May 22, 2005
    I like the first train, I have not seen many where the Steam Pistons are vertical not horizontal. Have you any of a Garret Steam Train?
    Tim
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  • ThwackThwack Registered Users Posts: 487 Major grins
    edited May 25, 2005
    Aussie_bluey wrote:
    I like the first train, I have not seen many where the Steam Pistons are vertical not horizontal. Have you any of a Garret Steam Train?
    Tim

    Until your post, I'd never heard of a Garret Steam Train...but Google had. That's one weird looking engine! I found a couple at the bottom of

    http://www.routes.co.za/wc/choo-tjoe/train.html
  • BigAlBigAl Registered Users Posts: 2,294 Major grins
    edited May 25, 2005
    Thwack wrote:
    Until your post, I'd never heard of a Garret Steam Train...but Google had. That's one weird looking engine! I found a couple at the bottom of

    http://www.routes.co.za/wc/choo-tjoe/train.html
    Hey, I've got pics of that first steam train (not the Garret unfortunately). Yours is great BTW.

    regards
    alan
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  • ThwackThwack Registered Users Posts: 487 Major grins
    edited May 27, 2005
    BigAl wrote:
    Hey, I've got pics of that first steam train (not the Garret unfortunately). Yours is great BTW.

    regards
    alan

    Thanks! Roaring Camp is an interesting place to visit...too bad they charge so much for a ride up the hill on their train. Can't really blame them though...it's got to be expensive to keep those things running!
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