Access for photographer - Loco Cab

Walking around for a while taking exterior shots ..... Guy walks by..

Me: "Hi - nice trains you have here"..

"Thanks".

"I see lots of them are locked up tight"

"Yea - we dont' let the public up and actually IN the old trains, but you can walk all around the outside of them"

"I've been on a lot of trains, but never been up in the Locomotive Cab before .... I see this one is also locked up"

"Yea - we dont' let the public actually IN the old trains.."

"But ............... I'm a photographer."

Looooooooooong pause while he stares at the coupler... "OK, here's the master key - return it to me - AND DON'T GET HURT"

Being a photographer is really really cool.

Nice , that would indeed be a treat to shoot.

Image seems a bit too cool (blue) though.

Good narrative, but...

...where are they?

All that for one shot? Are you holding out on us?

That's pretty unusual for someone to hand you the master keys.

I'm a volunteer at a railroad museum and we're pretty accommodating to photographers but we don't let anyone on or in the display equipment without an escort...

JWright wrote in post #14051590
That's pretty unusual for someone to hand you the master keys.

I'm a volunteer at a railroad museum and we're pretty accommodating to photographers but we don't let anyone on or in the display equipment without an escort...

He had a small cart and was working on the old mail car not too far away so it wasn't a problem keeping his eye on me... This was at a small RR museum in a little town in Nevada. Took a couple, but this one turned out the best.. Went over to an old Steam Locomotive, but the interior was really beat up, so it wasn't condusive to pictures.. He said that there were no funds to recondition it.. bummer, as I love old trains..

Here's one of the exterior...

Was this in Ely ?

That's more like it! Nice one.

JTW_Jr wrote in post #14052875
Was this in Ely ?

This may have been the one in Boulder... I think Ely only has Steam engines. Never been to that one. I drove the SouthWest for a couple of weeks, and it's hard to remember.

I am gonna trek up to Ely to check out the steamers this year before the snow starts to fly up there.

I see now , that it does appear to be Boulder City ( judging from the area outside the train in the first image ). Which is about 12 miles from my house.

but one picture though? seems a perfect opportunity to show 7 more