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 PDT on Friday, December 10th and will be judged by me- mfeets In the event of this weeks winner not responding by 5 PM Sunday, December 5th a new thread will be created using the theme with the highest votes in this weeks poll. This weeks theme will be: "Before 2000" (interpret however you wish) Good luck everyone!
With only a couple days until the new millennium, a pair of BNSF locomotives lead a unit coal train on a mild, Alabama winter day.
A trio of Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac F7s lead a mixed freight, sometime in the 1950s (photographer unknown).
Travelling through Europe 1970s style, a DB E03 careers through germany with the Trans Europe Express. (Loco & coaches coutesy of Virtual Railroads Expert Line)
With only one second to spare the evening commuter arrives at Balcombe Station just before 20:00. (AP Class 411 on the South London to Brighton Network)
With less than 2000 miles on the odometer, in fact its closer to zero miles, a trio of Conrail SD60Is lead an autorack train on their maiden voyage
Class 40 D328 pulls out of Barnard Castle in the late 1960s. Loco:- AP Class 40 (discontinued) Route:- Stainmore, Shap & Eden Valley
8th August 1963, 1M44 D326 just waiting to get robbed. (Headcode & Loco number historicaly accurate). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Train_Robbery_(1963) Loco:- AP Class 40 (discontinued) Route:- WCML South
Jumping forward 50 years, we come to the second golden age of railroading, the 1980s, where a long unit train of empties joins the mainline at Roper.
An NSE class 47 service departs London Paddington heading to Oxford alongside the famous Intercity 125 HST (class 43).
In 1997, a special railtour was organised by Hertfordshire railtours from Ealing Broadway to Whitby and back. This railtour used the iconic Great Western Merlin livery on the HST. Here that railtour is seen being passed by a GNER Class 91 (IC225) heading south towards York on the return leg of the tour.
Okay, i'm cutting this a little close, but here are the results: First place: NEC railfan with this great shot on one of my favorite routes Second place: triznya.andras for the great background and angle Third place: cscarpenter with a great story behind his shot Thanks for participating all. NEC railfan, next week's officially yours!
Should I create the next competition thread with Modern Memories in place of NEC Railfan? He wasn't online since yesterday morning, or shall I say Friday afternoon for him. Considering the (so far minor) delay, unless we have like a million posts right away, it should run until Dec 24th, Friday.
Well I'm here, sorry for holding you all over, good old time zones I guess, and the fact I was busy yesterday. I just posted the new thread and extended the entry time to Saturday. If there isn't much participation I'll extend it to the 24th.