Railway pictures (10)

pegelli wrote: Joseph, congrats on your 2000th and rest assured, your pictures look fine on my computer screen. Great catches all of them and you did fine given the very difficult light Ian, I just went through your Flickr photostream and wow, you're a real railway (and public transport) enthusiast, highly recommended to have a look for all the railway fans here. Are you still an active fireman? Have you ever fired one of the many great mainline machines like a Black 5 or something similar? I've never fired/driven anything bigger than a 0-6-0 tank engine, allthough I did a short mainline tour with one at ~60 km/hr once.

Hello Pieter. Thank you for the compliment. One of my reasons for joining this wonderful forum is to broaden my photography, and hopefully improve my skills. Up to now I have been too transport focused, especially trains.

I am not presently an active fireman. My rules exam is overdue and until I take it I can't fire. I have fired (from memory, I think) six black fives. I've fired most of the preserved ex LMS and BR types of locomotives with the exception of a Royal Scot. Other notable types include the newly built LNER A1 class locomotive Tornado, Southern Railway pacific City of Wells and the A4 Union of South Africa. I haven't done any UK mainline work though. I have visited Poland where I fired and drove on the main line for a week. Mainly the OL class locomotives although one day we had the pacific PM class. Don't knock the smaller locomotives. They need more skill to fire than the bigger ones. Some of my best days out have been on an LMS 0-6-0 shunter, known as Jinties in the UK. On one occasion we ran four miles non-stop with a train of 205 tons at 40 kph (A large load for a small locomotive). It was memorable. As this is a picture forum I'll stop writing now! Happy to discuss my railway experiences if any enthusiasts want to get in touch.

Coast wrote: 2 check out all the buzzards

What?1? I see no birds!
Do I presume right that those BNSF locomotives have buzzard nickname?

PS. And for the sake of variety, please try to find also another sky image, the one you used to replace the sky in these pictures looks nice, but it is bit odd to see the same clouds in the same positions in every picture...

ObRail:

Tram in central Helsinki in spring snow shower

Hello Doc, glad you liked the Johnny Cash one, had a lot of fun w those posts

Thank you Bob J, great hearing from you. looking forward to another 2000

Pieter, when things get right, I think it would be awesome if you could make it back out here and you, me an Doc have a mini Dyxum "train photo fest" meeting

Fred_S wrote: [QUOTE=Coast] That sounds a bit like what I did for my daughter's sports career, although my car isn't purple

Your right Fred, my thing, wasn't easy, lived downtown San Francisco for the last decade for daughter


IanC, welcome to Dyxum, especially a "real" train guy. Your in here w some real "Masters" (not me) so enjoy it. About being a newbe and posting, you might want to check w Fred S, I think he did 2000 posts in his 1st 2 weeks

If you want to see long trains, like you can't see the beginning and can't see the end. Just come out here when things get right

Edited by Coast - 22 August 2020 at 12:13

With apologies to all the dedicated pursuers of great locomotive shots ...

I was on holiday in Dorset last week and didn't realise that the Swanage Railway had re-opened under the easing of lockdown regulations. I was in a stationary traffic queue outside Corfe Castle returning from Studland when I heard a steam whistle. So with nothing planned and thinking of this thread, I snatched a picture with the selfie camera of my Smartphone.


Snatched steam train shot

The locomotive is an unrebuilt SR 4-6-2 "Battle of Britain" Class No. 34072 257 Squadron.

Next time I promise to do better, and with Dyxum-approved gear!



Edited by Howard_S - 22 August 2020 at 11:57

My mistake in post-processing - thanks for spotting, Ian. Now corrected.

Coast wrote: IanC, welcome to Dyxum, especially a "real" train guy. Your in here w some real "Masters" (not me) so enjoy it. About being a newbe and posting, you might want to check w Fred S, I think he did 2000 posts in his 1st 2 weeks

Well, it took just a bit longer actually