Post Your Best Train Shot......

Cormac wrote in post #17907481

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Nice PP work... was this train sitting still or moving? It appears to not be moving

It was moving. It also definitly needed pp. Originally i thought i got carried away, but liked how powerful it makes the engine look!

Your photo just emanates raw power, One of the best in this forum. My eyes were drawn straight to the horse on the nose of the engine. it was like deja vu i seen that horse before and low and behold its the same logo as the Ferrari. (just reversed)
For members who whine about a kit lens they should take a look at this photo! Well done.

Copper NYC wrote in post #17908036
Your photo just emanates raw power, One of the best in this forum. My eyes were drawn straight to the horse on the nose of the engine. it was like deja vu i seen that horse before and low and behold its the same logo as the Ferrari. (just reversed)
For members who whine about a kit lens they should take a look at this photo! Well done.

Thanks! That's what I was going for Raw power! Only way it could be better is if it were a steam engine! Curious who had that logo first, ferrari or norfolk southern?

Cormac wrote in post #17908045
Thanks! That's what I was going for Raw power! Only way it could be better is if it were a steam engine! Curious who had that logo first, ferrari or norfolk southern?

Great question - it motivated me to do a bit of reading to find out. Norfolk Southern was created, as a result of a merger, in 1982. Best I can tell is at that time - the new merged company adopted the slogan "the Thoroughbred of Transportation." Here's what I found regarding markings:

====Paint and colors====
Norfolk Southern's locomotives are often called "catfish" by railfans, as the stripes are said to look like catfish whiskers. [[EMD GP59]] no. 4610 was painted in predecessor Southern colors of green and white with gold trim and was a favorite of railfans. The work was done at the DeButts Yard in [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]] during the summer of 1994 and the locomotive received a repaint in the summer of 2004. The locomotive was repainted standard Norfolk Southern black and white in February 2012.

The current paint scheme for Norfolk Southern locomotives is black and white, with yellow grab irons and step-edge highlights. Locomotives feature a rearing horse decal enclosed in the "catfish" stripes on both the nose and rear, which is consistent with marketing campaigns where NS has billed itself as "The Thoroughbred of Transportation".

Norfolk Southern painted 20 new-order ES44ACs and SD70ACes in commemorative heritage paint schemes as part of Norfolk Southern Corporation's 30th anniversary celebration in 2012 (more info below in the "Heritage Schemes" section).

So - Ferrari was first . . .

So it's not necessarily copying ferrari. Though if they wanted to push the issue, they could probably sue in this day and age where people win law suits for burning themselves with coffee.

Anyway, went back and re-edited an older shot I did, also of a NS train. I like the style of this engine better than the one I posted yesterday. This is a tighter crop with more post work to give it that "power" feeling. More so than my original edit. Which is further back in the thread. Pretty sure it's in my gallery here as well. Ironically enough, this version has less noise, since I've figured out how to do noise reduction since the original edit of this same photo.

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How true some people just don't take responsibility for their own stupid acts. Btw i think Norfolk Southern railroad is good to go, one uses a Gelding and the other uses a Mare, LOL

Funny how a B&W conversion can make that nasty orange and green look ok.

Willllburrrr wrote in post #17915388

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Our turn to go after this guy clears up

Nice shot Willllburrrr

Today when I was out driving with my wifey we saw a train that had 5-6 flat cars (sorry do not know the official name of the car) on a train that was carrying many brand new John Deere farm tractors! I have seen this before, but not very often. Since I of course do not see every train going thru town I really have no idea how often this happens. Anyway I did not have my 60D with me, but I still wanted to try and get a show with my smart phone. At first I was able to drive faster than the train, but then I started hitting RED lights... 3 or 4 in a row..... GRRRRRR

But then the train was picking up speed and I could not get ahead of the train, so I had to say good bye to the very nice looking John Deere tractors.

I was so sad because I wanted to post them here