Welcome to the Unofficial Screenshot Competition This is a fun and friendly alternative to the official Screenshot Competition run by DTG. Here you can share your weekly themed TSC screenshots using any 3rd party / post shot editing etc. creations which are not allowed in the official competition. Rules: TSC only shots allowed. Screenshot should be in some way (can be very tenuous) linked to the 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). The Judge of the week's decision is final. We strongly discourage any negative comment or criticism of another entry by a fellow contributor, this is a light hearted & fun contest! This is a major "we are all friendly" thread and we hope it will always remain so. Please keep chat to an absolute minimum. Entries will close at 9:00 PM BST on Friday, May 31st 2024 and will be judged by me - PaulC In the event of this weeks winner not responding by 5:00 PM BST Sunday, June 2nd, a new thread will be created using the theme with the highest votes in this weeks poll. Theme for this week : "Freight/industry" Feel free to interpret the theme however you wish. Good luck to all, but most importantly, remember to have fun.
Exempt example shot...... 66152 heads out of Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station after unloading. AP66 JT MML
Route: Koln-Koblenz Train: MRCE BR 266 A pretty obscure locomotive to be seen on this line, pulling a freight train towards France.
A double stacked container train meanders its way along the Feather River Canyon Route: Feather River Canyon (original) Train: Union Pacific Heritage SD70ACes
A J94 Austerity snorts its way up one of the many steep gradients on the Maerdy branch line with 30 empty wagons in tow. Route: Memories of Maerdy Train: J94 Austerity
Robinson O4 No. 63573 snorts its way upgrade through Wortley station on the Woodhead line with a rake of empty wangons in tow. Route: The Woodhead Line Loco: Robinson O4
In the wee hours of the morning, postmen hurry to load the most valuable and time sensitive freight there is onto the Down Postal at Newton Abbot
The EMD GP9 was the backbone of early US diesel freight for many years but now their time has come for their withdrawal. BNSF EMD GP9 '1614' is seen departing from the industrial sidings of Victorville, California located in the United States of America and takes itself and a further 5 EMD GP9s from fallen flag railroads to be stripped down and scrapped at Barstow on the Cajon Subdivision. Loco: EMD GP9 Route: Cajon Pass Scenario: Switch Off Enhancements: Armstrong Powerhouse Sky & Weather Enhancement Pack 2.0 + Armstrong Powerhouse Cloud Enhancement Pack, ReShade
British Railways 5700 Class '5786' pulls into the industrial dockside freight yard sidings of Newham in England, United Kingdom during 1952 with a short set of empty wagons for storage in the yard to be used on later freight movements. Loco: GWR 5700 Class Route: Falmouth Branch Scenario: Newham Goods Enhancements: Armstrong Powerhouse Sky & Weather Enhancement Pack 2.0 + Armstrong Powerhouse Cloud Enhancement Pack, ReShade
Lots of industrial freight movements seen taking place at the Düsseldorf-Reisholz yard on a gloomy Spring afternoon in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany! Locos: DB Class 294, DR Class 243 Route: Cologne-Dusseldorf Scenario: vR 03 Pack - SC01 - PBK GZ89534 Enhancements: Armstrong Powerhouse Sky & Weather Enhancement Pack 2.0 + Armstrong Powerhouse Cloud Enhancement Pack, RW Enhancer 2, ReShade
The UK Peak District is renowned for it's Limestone Quarries. Locos:- AP Class 37, Class 60 Route:- JT MML Buxton & Peak Forest extension.
Freightliner 66616 hauling a 1900 ton rake of loaded Lafarge cement JPA tanks from Tunstead to West Thurrock. Loco:- AP Class 66 Route:- AP MML London St. Pancras - Bedford
A veteran ALCO S2 moves a couple of large transformers on depressed center flats into an industrial siding. Route: Chicago & Goose Island
Tucked in the Sierra Nevada mountains in Northern California is a small narrow gauge logging operation. They supply wood for the local sawmills using their 0-6-0 Mogul and class B Shay locomotives. On Friday night it has been known that for a bottle of Old Curmudgeon, the engineer will hitch a few log buggies to the Mogul to ride on for the 7 miles to town for some fun and a little social life. Route: 1000 mm Narrow Gauge
Back in 1869 in Cheyenne Wyoming, cattle and horses were a big industry for the Union Pacific Railroad. Here we have a fresh load of horses arriving for the Army at Fort Cheyenne and cattle to ship back to the stock yards in Chicago. Route: Cheyenne 1869 Locomotive: UP 119
Letchworth Garden City in the early 1950s. The 'garden city' concept was born at the start of the Twentieth Century to create new, idealised cities. They included parks, planned urban spaces...and industrial zones, set to one side so as not to pollute the idyllic lives of their inhabitants. This view shows the distinctive exhaust towers of the Electricity (First Garden City Limited) Company with the larger towers of the coal generating station and the gas storage of the gas company behind.An O4 has just dropped off a train of loaded coal wagons which the diminuitive steam shunter will take round the site. A B2 (Norwich City) passes with a short, fast passenger train to Hitchin.
Network Rail 31107 with a shed load of rails, at Dalzell Steel works, even a steel works occasionally need their tracks replacing.
Lots of excellent entries well done everyone, I'll have a proper look through the pics before lunch today as I've got to go out in a min & post the winners then. Thanks all!
Right, today`s timings went out the window & here we are at well past 2am, listening to an essentail mix (John 00 Fleming) & judging a TSC comp when I should be sleeping Joint 3rd place is Maxtedrw with Late autumn afternoon at Burcott sand & gravel works I love this image as it captures the workings of the quarry loading the sand & gravel into the hoppers. & PhÜnKî_Rø0sTā with A J94 Austerity snorts its way up one of the many steep gradients on the Maerdy branch line with 30 empty wagons in tow. I love the worn out unloved look of this loco! well done to the both of you! In joint 2nd place is cscarpenter & Blazin with these 2 amazing images of industry and freight in action..... & the winner is!!!! Rwaday who has absolutely owned this weeks comp with a series of images that have captured the theme of the comp perfectly & have made me smile when I viewed the pics, all 3 entries were awesome but I can only choose one & I think my favorite is this one from way back in 1869! Back in 1869 in Cheyenne Wyoming, cattle and horses were a big industry for the Union Pacific Railroad. Here we have a fresh load of horses arriving for the Army at Fort Cheyenne and cattle to ship back to the stock yards in Chicago. I love the position this pic was taken from & the horse is just brilliant Congratulations & I look forward to whatever theme you choose for the next comp.
Thank you very much. There were many great shots in this weeks contest. There were a few others that I would have picked. I will have next weeks contest up tomorrow morning about 10:00 AKST Alaska time about 1900 BST.
