November 2011 Photography Contest - Curves - CLOSED

[kenszok]

Open entry period will run from November 1st through November 30th. On December 1st the voting poll will be set up in the Contest Voting forum.

For the month of November the photography contest will focus on trains working their way through curves. Photos for this contest can be from your archives or something shot in the month of November 2011.

The image must be composed and shot by the person submitting the entry. Limit one entry per person.

The entries are moderated, so they will not show up until the contest administrator approves them. If the entry is not approved, you will receive a private message explaining why it was not approved.

Images must be added as attachments to the thread. Do not link images from other sites because linked images make it difficult to set up the voting poll.

Do not comment or ask question in this thread since it is for contest entries.

If you have any questions or comments, you can post them in the General Photo Contest Discussion section at http://www.westcoastrailforums.com/forum-171.html

When Submitting images, please include the following:

Title

Brief description

Date

Example of acceptable entries:

                                   

[kearthfan101]

Entry #1 - Amtrak 14 Highball Simi Valley!
   

Amtrak's Coast Starlight Train #14 departs the Simi Valley Amtrak Station, and heads around a great curve, before travelling off towards the North.

January 7th, 2011

[kenszok]

Entry #2 - Two working the switchbacks at Ludlow

Two stack trains meet at they work through the switchbacks near Ludlow, CA.

February 18, 2008

   

[MrMRL]

Entry #3 - BNSF 4092 westbound

BNSF 4092 leads a Q-ATGLAC1-20 westbound past the Mormon Rocks along Cajon Pass. SD70ACe 9317 was second out. (1/23/10)

Mr. MRL

   

[Holloran Grade]

Entry #4 - climbing out of Ludlow

A Westbound climbs out of Ludlow, California as a second stack train rolls off of Ash Hill in the background to the right.

Taken from Lavic looking East - April 2011.

   

[trainsonthebrain]

Entry #5 - wesbound manifest into Tunnel #2

UP 5455 leads a wesbound manifest into Tunnel #2, and the setting sun, on a cool February evening. (02/02/2008)
   

[bastatim4294]

Entry #6 - UP 844 Steam Special.

   

UP 844 noses into the S curve on a cold and windy day in Cajon Pass.

9:42 AM -11-19-11

[TC Smith]

Entry #7 - Rollin' down the south track.
April 17, 2010

TCS - ready, Ames, fire.

[Cliffs]

Entry #8 - BNSF 4926 rolling east at Maryhill

BNSF 4926 rolls east-bound through the curves at Maryhill, WA as a loaded west-bound grainer pauses in the siding. 22 OCT 2011.

   

[Van Nuys Local]

Entry #9 - Helpers shoving hard

   

BNSF helpers are shoving an EB manifest over Tehachapi between tunnels 10 and 14 on June 5, 2010. The last of the wildflowers called "Farewell to Spring" are in bloom as the rear of the freight winds through the curves and up the hill. This was a monster of a manifest with seven units up front, including a NS SD60 unit and two Geeps numbers 2954 and 2319.