Any chance for rare power?

coaststarlight14 · 02-08-2011, 10:33 PM

http://www.railpictures.net/viewqueued.php?id=902865
http://www.railpictures.net/viewqueued.php?id=902864
http://www.railpictures.net/viewqueued.php?id=902863

give me advice!

coaststarlight14 · 02-08-2011, 10:34 PM

sorry forgot that you cant see those...
here are the photos:

AntD. · 02-08-2011, 10:37 PM

And you guys over there laugh at us when we go nuts over Yellow & Orange GEs... You guys can keep that trash over there for as long as you want...hell send it to Mexico.

Anyways, why do you shoot from that one spot at JLS again?

coaststarlight14 · 02-08-2011, 10:40 PM

haha, this spot gave me better results then the platform... so i decided to shoot the rare power from there...

coborn35 · 02-08-2011, 10:41 PM

I see a boring NS unit and possibly a P42. Why not show the whole train? The engine itself isnt rare, but the train as a whole is not uncommon, but at the same time not a normal occurrence(although around here it seems like thats all they run with). I think if you had shot the train it would stand a better shot. And why the hell did you submit two of the same shot pretty much?

JimThias · 02-08-2011, 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by coaststarlight14

sorry forgot that you cant see those...
here are the photos:

Bad angle, compostion or cropping on all of them. Seriously...pay attention to signs and whatnot when shooting. One of them says "Square." Uhh, WHAT "Square?"

coaststarlight14 · 02-08-2011, 11:02 PM

i see what you mean...but well, we can't change what already happened...so i'll deal with these photos now, and hope for a northbound with the same consist or something...

nikos1 · 02-08-2011, 11:13 PM

You never learn will you....
Railroad photography basics: Outside of the curve sucks unless your going for a nose tellemash, very bad for showing a interesting consist.
Second: I'm surpised the self proclaimed "street running king" hasn't bitched you out about it yet, but why on earth would you shoot at a fairly boring Amtrak station rather than the awesome streetrunning, makes absolutely no sense.
Third: Its pretty poor practice to send in 3 identical shots at once.

Oh and Ant speak for yourself, wont see me foaming over UP and BNSF trashcabs

Paolo Roffo · 02-09-2011, 03:17 AM

Not to put too fine a point on it, but...

I just did a quick search through the home page for an NS C40-9W, and it returned 11,590 images. Does that answer your question RE rare power?

Greg P · 02-09-2011, 03:23 AM

I think what Coast means is that this is a Norfolk Southern engine pulling a passenger train into Jack London Square in Oakland California, 2,000 miles from it's home rails.

To me this seems fairly rare to have the combination of NS engine pulling a passenger train in Oakland CA. I'd expect to see a UP or BNSF helper unit.

I know there is an NS engine that works with BNSF running back and fourth on the BNSF Mainline though.

Chase55671 · 02-09-2011, 03:32 AM

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Originally Posted by nikos1

You never learn will you....
Railroad photography basics: Outside of the curve sucks unless your going for a nose tellemash, very bad for showing a interesting consist.
Second: I'm surpised the self proclaimed "street running king" hasn't bitched you out about it yet, but why on earth would you shoot at a fairly boring Amtrak station rather than the awesome streetrunning, makes absolutely no sense.
Third: Its pretty poor practice to send in 3 identical shots at once.

Oh and Ant speak for yourself, wont see me foaming over UP and BNSF trashcabs

Haha, street running king? More like, master of the wedgie.

Chase

Ween · 02-09-2011, 04:09 AM

Why were the first two shots in the queue back-to-back? It's the same shot at the same location of the same thing...just a little farther down the line. Pick one (the best one) and submit only that.

I'm surprised you're not down to 1 or 2 uploads per day...

Freericks · 02-09-2011, 05:13 AM

I would recommend in the future that when something like this happens, that you make a special effort to show the location (as well as the entire train).

As others have pointed out, an NS wide cab GE is meaningless... but a NS wide cab GE leading an Amtrak through Jack London Square is a once ever shot. You need to get that shot... with a familiar Jack London iconic building and the famous street running.

It's a mistake I made when I was a kid. A Frisco U25B came through NJ once, and I got to it and shot it tight, so you couldn't tell where it was.

Watain · 02-09-2011, 06:12 AM

I kind of like the third one, I would have shot something similar, but from the other side of the tracks coming around the curve. Hard to do when you don't have a lot of reach though..

As for the other two, I would have zoomed out as wide as possible to shoot the catfish leading a passenger train. I think its a cool consist, but I would shoot it completely different.

AntD. · 02-09-2011, 06:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Chase55671

Haha, street running king? More like, master of the wedgie.

Chase

No, that would actually be another RP contributor, but we won't mention any names, We'll just keep this mud fight between me and the King of Point & Shoot....

BTW, the wedgies were a thing of the past, being that my first page of photos there's only maybe 4-15 so called wedgies...

PhotoID: 350758
Photograph © Anthony Davis

Last time I checked that wasn't a wedgie in my book

Oh and Nikos, don't act like you don't foam over Orange...

PhotoID: 309845
Photograph © Nikos Kavoori

Chase55671 · 02-09-2011, 07:48 AM

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Originally Posted by AntD.

No, that would actually be another RP contributor, but we won't mention any names, We'll just keep this mud fight between me and the King of Point & Shoot....

BTW, the wedgies were a thing of the past, being that my first page of photos there's only maybe 4-15 so called wedgies...

PhotoID: 350758
Photograph © Anthony Davis

Last time I checked that wasn't a wedgie in my book

And it certainly doesn't appear to be a street running scene, so that makes both of our statements inaccurate.

Perhaps "king of excessive use of the bold font" would be an appropriate title.

Chase

cblaz · 02-09-2011, 01:14 PM

How does shooting the same stretch of street running in one town make someone the "street running king"? Shouldn't the name go to someone who has a bunch of different locations in their street running portfolio?

- Chris

bigbassloyd · 02-09-2011, 01:16 PM

No rules apply when you're self appointed?

Loyd L.

JRMDC · 02-09-2011, 02:30 PM

In my view, if the engine does not appear in a shot (in this case CSXT 4617) then its number should not appear in the locomotive ID section. The B/W simply is not a shot of CSXT 4617.

AntD. · 02-09-2011, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Chase55671

And it certainly doesn't appear to be a street running scene, so that makes both of our statements inaccurate.

Perhaps "king of excessive use of the bold font" would be an appropriate title.

Chase

Yea, that's more like it! Haven't you heard Chase? Bold is Better! BTW, I didn't know making one sentence bold was excessive, my bad.

And oh, you meant non-wedgie street running scene eh? Well here ya, go.

PhotoID: 352378
Photograph © Anthony Davis

Quote:

Originally Posted by cblaz

How does shooting the same stretch of street running in one town make someone the "street running king"? Shouldn't the name go to someone who has a bunch of different locations in their street running portfolio?

- Chris

Actually Chris I don't think was Augusta (Oh, boy watch Nikos try to take credit for this)... but I'm planning on trying to revisit this spot next week to hopefully get better shot along this line....

PhotoID: 324099
Photograph © Anthony Davis

Just gotta take some vacation from work to go visit NC, PA, CA, NY, KY just to name a few so I can obtain my official crown.

AntD. · 02-09-2011, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by JRMDC

In my view, if the engine does not appear in a shot (in this case CSXT 4617) then its number should not appear in the locomotive ID section. The B/W simply is not a shot of CSXT 4617.

Oh, let me go fix that...I wouldn't want too many people crying over it...

nikos1 · 02-09-2011, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by AntD.

Last time I checked that wasn't a wedgie in my book

Oh and Nikos, don't act like you don't foam over Orange...

Oh boy where to start, weee you shot a MOW dude walking in the dust, so awesome that must make you 3000000X more creative than me....
2. as for the BNSF, FAIL......A: I was waiting for something much better -

and B: The light was awesome and it was a good shot, wasnt going to not shoot it because it was junk. Do we need to bring up the little hissy fit you had over missing a BNSF GEVO that first time in Atlanta?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chase55671

Perhaps "king of excessive use of the bold font" would be an appropriate title.

Chase

-Nikos Kavoori likes this....

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Originally Posted by AntD.

Actually Chris I don't think was Augusta (Oh, boy watch Nikos try to take credit for this)...

The fact that you didnt have a clue Sandersville had street running before I told you?

Are you getting bored because I dont sign onto Yahoo nowdays?

coborn35 · 02-09-2011, 05:05 PM

AntD. · 02-09-2011, 05:07 PM

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Are you getting bored because I dont sign onto Yahoo nowdays?

That's probably the most homo thing I've heard... and I'm just going to leave it at that...This has gone too far...

coborn35 · 02-09-2011, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by AntD.

That's probably the most homo thing I've heard... and I'm just going to leave it at that...This has went too far...