Unofficial Screenshot Contest Week 22

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  1. paulc

    paulc Well-Known Member

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    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.
     
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    Exempt example shot......

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    66152 heads out of Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station after unloading.

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    JT MML
     
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  3. I`m a railfan obviously

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    Route: Norfolk Southern N-Line Train: NS GP38, NS GP9.
    Spotted the Local Freight! Screenshot_Norfolk Southern N Line_35.48861--80.29945_14-13-14.jpg
     
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    Route: Koln-Koblenz Train: MRCE BR 266
    A pretty obscure locomotive to be seen on this line, pulling a freight train towards France. Screenshot_Köln to Koblenz_50.42327-7.44832_08-45-43.jpg
     
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    Route: Inseldbahn Train: DB BR 204
    The small, but powerful 204 serving the harbour of Sassnitz. Screenshot_Inselbahn - Stralsund to Sassnitz_54.48582-13.58950_14-48-09.jpg
     
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    A double stacked container train meanders its way along the Feather River Canyon
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    Route: Feather River Canyon (original)
    Train: Union Pacific Heritage SD70ACes
     
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    A J94 Austerity snorts its way up one of the many steep gradients on the Maerdy branch line with 30 empty wagons in tow.
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    Route: Memories of Maerdy
    Train: J94 Austerity
     
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    Late autumn afternoon at Burcott sand & gravel works
     
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    Robinson O4 No. 63573 snorts its way upgrade through Wortley station on the Woodhead line with a rake of empty wangons in tow. 20240217150526_1.jpg
    Route: The Woodhead Line
    Loco: Robinson O4
     
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    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 20240319125015_1.jpg
     
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    EMD GP9 11.jpg
    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
     
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    GWR 5700 CLass 4.jpg
    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
     
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    DR Class 243 10.jpg
    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
     
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    The UK Peak District is renowned for it's Limestone Quarries.
    Locos:- AP Class 37, Class 60
    Route:- JT MML Buxton & Peak Forest extension.
     
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    The Earles Cement Works in the Hope Valley.
    Loco:- Class 20
    Route:- JT MML Hope Vally extension.
     
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    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
     
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    20240529194451_1.jpg A veteran ALCO S2 moves a couple of large transformers on depressed center flats into an industrial siding.
    Route: Chicago & Goose Island
     
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    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
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    An early start for EWS 33030 at Grangemouth Refinery with a rake of TTA tanks in tow.
     
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    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
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    Letch industry2.jpg
    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.
     
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    Letchworth Industry.jpg

    And the same scene in grimier weather
     
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    Network Rail 31107 with a shed load of rails, at Dalzell Steel works, even a steel works occasionally need their tracks replacing.
     
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    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!
     
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    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 maxtedrw.png
    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. PhÜnKî_Rø0sTā.jpg

    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.....

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    & 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. rwaday1.jpg

    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.
     
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    Congratulations to the other winners and thank you for 2nd place!!
     
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    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.
     
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    Thank you for a third place, I am suprised as there were some great entries
     

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