Rules: - Screenshot should be in some way (can be very tenuous) linked to a theme. Otherwise anything goes. - You can enter up to 3 screenshots, posted as separate posts. You can delete and replace if you wish. - Entries to be submitted by 9pm Friday (GMT). - Previous week's winner to decide winner (can't enter themselves). - The winner chooses the new theme for next week (and becomes the new judge). This week's theme is Going Straight and will be judged this week by me, IronBladder.
Located somewhere between Palmdale and Mojave, a Southern Pacific Intermodal train races across the flat desert towards the desert town of Mojave, where the train will continue its journey north to Oregon.
"Going Straight - To Jail" "Go to Jail, Go Straight to Jail, Do Not Pass Downham Market, Do Not Collect £200". HST Driver arrested doing 126mph in a 125mph zone. Idea for the scene came from this 1984 BR Inter City advertisement.
Going straight over the Hutchinson River - an Amtrak ACS-64 crossing the Pelham Bay Bridge. New York - New Haven Route
Going Straight as a die past Ratcliffe on Soar power station, (or as my daughter has always called it "The Cloud Factory") next stop Nottingham. East Midlands Railway Class 222 Meridian on the JT Midland Mainline Network
Going Straight to Brighton. With the 150th Anniversary of the London to Brighton line, a railtour was organised in commemoration of the day. Formed of 73101 'Brighton Evening Argus', specially repainted in Pullman Umber and Cream for the occasion, and a rake of VSOE Pullman stock, usually used for the Orient Express. Date: 21st September 1991 MKS Class 73 with the VP Brighton Belle Reskin
A Cross Country 221 Voyager Going Straight past EMT Meridian 222 101, being towed by 20 142 from Crofton Depot to Derby Etches Park on 19th December 2013 as per real events that day. Seen just South of Chesterfield on the MML
A rake of old boilers "Going Straight" to the scrapyard. Only question is do we also weigh in the BR7200 2-8-2 boiler that is pulling them?
Southern Pacific roll on! roll on! With Dash 9 8124 at the head and Dash 2s bringing up the rear, a 69 car train of trona makes its way down the Mojave Sub.
A pair of former New York Central GP40s find themselves on a southbound consist at Longmeadow MA, far from Central tracks.
It's the early 1970's, and NKP 759 is heading up a High Iron Company excursion special along the Erie Lackawanna from Binghamton, PA to Hoboken, NJ. Here the locomotive is seen climbing grade along the outskirts of Port Jervis with a train load of happy passengers in tow. Route Used: New York Division - Bergen Line Locomotive Used: NKP Berkshire
In the dead of night, a B&LE 2-10-2 deadheads an employee appreciation special from the Greenville Shops to Conneaut for the trip the next day. Thanks to the use of flashbulbs, the train is captured by a local railfan just outside of Albion, PA. Route Used: Bessemer & Lake Erie Locomotive Used: B&LE Santa Fe
I assume it's additional spot lights that Buynot added to route in this location with the editor. All routes have light assets that can be edited in/out/moved with the editor. Light sources are visible as objects in the editor, but transparent when running, apart from the light they cast which can be area (no shadows) or point (with shadows).
"Swan On The Line" Based on real events from 2019. The Hastings DEMU railtour was going straight to Lowestoft from Norwich and was stopped as a family of swans was attempting to cross the line! Featuring Custom swan asset and Reskinned AP Class 205 both by myself. Really wanted to enter this into this weeks Nature competition but couldnt for obvious reasons
OK folks, It's 21:00, so judging time. It's a great set of screenshots to choose from and I like them all, but winners are needed, so: In third place, cscarpenter with his clever interpretation of going straight in a law and order context. In second place, JGRudnick with his in your face straightness to the vanishing point. In first place, NEC Railfan for his well composed multiple straightness of track, train and telegraph. Well done all. NEC Railfan, over to you for next week's theme and judging.
Well uh, it's been two days and we appear to be lacking a new theme to get the next contest going. Being a sorta cover-all-bases type, I propose that as a fail-safe in the case of a new theme not being declared in, shall we say, three days time after the winner's been declared, someone makes the next contest thread and the theme just be freestyle where contestants are allowed to enter any kinda screenshot that they like, circumstances around the lack of a new theme being specified within time notwithstanding. Does that sound agreeable to everyone? Of course, I don't intend to step on anybody's toes with this. Just trying to make sure things go smoothly.
Sorry if I was out of the forums these past two days (been a busy weekend) but this week's theme will be Under the Wire, it is free to any interpretation. I'll have the thread up in a few minutes. (Again I apologize for delaying everyone).
