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. - 3rd party content / Reshades / Reskins etc. are welcomed but are not mandatory. - 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). Entries will close at 9:00 PM GMT on Friday, January 21st and will be judged by me - Nick Y In the event of this weeks winner not responding by 5PM Sunday, January 23rd a new thread will be created using the theme with the highest votes in this weeks poll. This weeks theme will be: Heavy Haul (Freight) - Any era applies
A Western Pacific GE U30B crosses the gorgeous and unique bridge junction at Keddie on the Feather River Canyon.
The heavy haul from Folkeston docks is nearly over, the Ditton Intermodal yard is only a few miles away. (AP enhanced Class 92 on the ATS WCML Midland & Northwest)
"Clagging for England" D6717 & D6725 haul a heavy load of bitumen tanks on the climb out of Evenwood............ (Please click on image to see full effect)
............... and a couple of years earlier at the same spot, a pair of LMS 8Fs performed the same task. (Please click on image to see full effect)
Freightliner Class 66 pulling a heavy haul of freight containers along the Felixstowe Branch Line on the Great Eastern Main Line.
************** PLEASE DISREGARD FOR THE COMP ****************** Just realised I have entered four. Whoops sorry, got carried away Heavy hauling German style. Loco:- DB BR232 "Ludmilla" Route:- Wutachtalbahn
A freightliner train, double headed by 86s, fights its way through the blizzards on the way to Lockerbie.
Just starting the long night haul out of Coatbridge RFT Loco:- Class 90 Route:- WCML North (Please click on image to remove white background for best effect)
86 614 & 86 637 are not even half way hauling a heavy rake of 22 fully laden FEA/FTA/FSA container wagons from Tilbury Docks in Essex up to Coatbridge FLT in Scotland. They are currently climbing up & over the Barking Flyover on a horrible damp foggy London morning. (Please click on image to remove white background for best effect) Loco:- AP Class 86 Route:- Goblin & North London Lines
For many years these Torpedowagen carried molten pig Iron from the blast furnaces at the steelworks. Now decomissioned they are heading to become melted down for scrap themselves, ooh don't you love a bit of irony (or should that be Iron - y ). (Please click on image to remove white background for best effect) Locos:- DB BR 294 / DB BR232 Route:- Munich - Augsberg
UP 1943 starts out of Bakersfield yard with a grain train while an AC4400CW waits its turn on another track.
April, 1949: A Pennsylvania Railroad I1 decapod slips its drivers as it struggles to get a heavy coal drag underway. Its shotgun-like exhaust reverberates across downtown Altoona as it picks up speed. The train could be heard for hours after as it struggled up the steep grade. Route Used: Horseshoe Curve Locomotive Used: PRR I1
August, 1961: A quartet of Santa Fe F7's belch out smoke as they make their way past Bellemont, AZ with an extraordinarily long string of boxcars and reefers. Route Used: Arizona Divide Locomotive Used: EMD F7
well, it's gonna be difficult to choose winners this week as they are all fantastic screenshots. I shall have a good scan through tonight and you should hopefully see the winners listed in the morning UK time.
Ok, so after much deliberation I have decided on the winners this week. It was a really hard choice to make this week with all the brilliant screenshots. In joint 3rd place cscarpenter with his amazing and unusual shot of German torpedowagens and also Blazin with his Cajon Pass intermodal train. Also, we have joint second places this week going to Cragie-C and Buynot for their old school diesels. Our winner this week is Blazin with this lovely shot of the trestle bridges at Keddie on the Feather River Canyon route. Fantastic entries everyone so everyone who entered gets special mentions. Thanks to Blazin, Cragie-C, cscarpenter, Buynot, Inversnecky and mfeets for entering. It really was tough this week. I now switch the track over to our winner Blazin for the 3rd week of this contest.
I'm very happy I won! Thank you and well done to all the other contestants! And could you please tell me what to do next? Thank you in advance.
Basically what I do when I win is copy and paste the large paragraph at the start of the post and then change the name of the judge the dates to match the next week. So in your case you'd change the date to the 28th January for the end of the contest and then the if no reply date to the 30th January. You then decide what you'd like your theme to be. You can also set up a poll for options for the next week theme in case the winner doesn't respond (in this case I forgot to do that). You just need to set up a thread in the creation centre with the week of the contest (so something like unofficial screenshot contest (or competition) 2022 week 3). If you need any help, one of us can set the thread up for you.
Thanks, I just set up the new thread. This week's theme will be "Slam Door Trains" Here is the link to the new thread - https://forums.dovetailgames.com/threads/unofficial-screenshot-contest-2022-week-3.51227/
Well done to the winners. I love these mono shots, Craigie - I can almost imagine them as framed photos up in a 1960s era BR manager’s office!
Thanks, I can sell you a signed copy if you llike. LOL Looking forward to next week, I absolutely love Slam Door stock.
Due to living in a remoter past of Scotland, as far from the nearest railway station as I would normally want to drive to, I've only been on a train once in the last 25 years, so it has been news to me that slam doors have actually now become a historical feature!
A door that opens and swings out, and makes a slamming noise when shut. Now largely supplanted by sliding doors that can be centrally locked for safety reasons.
Interestingly, it tends to be a term associated with (especially Southern Region) multiple units, though of course coaches had ‘slamming doors’ too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slam-door_train