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RE: CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge - GoldOxide_imp - 11-04-2023

Are those train commuter cars the same style as back then, suhawk?

RE: CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge - Gone in 60 - 11-04-2023

1. Park bike near tracks.
2. Wait for train
3. Take pictures

Our freight trains are usually festooned with graffiti, so I wanted to catch one. This was a big-un, all stacked containers, taking about ten minutes to pass, with two sets of multiple locomotives.




I also wanted to catch a passenger train. This is the Metrolink, our commuter train service that connects Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. This is the train I used to take from my town to Union Station in Downtown L.A. when I worked there daily.



RE: CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge - GoldOxide_imp - 11-04-2023

Looked like a mostly un-festooned moment in southern California train spotting.

RE: CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge - the Ferret - 11-04-2023

Cool Gone. How long did you have to wait?

RE: CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge - Gone in 60 - 11-05-2023

I went to Fullerton, which is a busy Orange County station where passenger and freight traffic pass through frequently. The freight train rolled through a few minutes after I parked.

For the commuter train, I checked the schedule for when the last one would pass through my town before sunset. Being my last ride before the time change, I wanted to get a shot with the sunset reflecting off of the bike and train.

As far as graffiti, the truck trailer containers don’t usually get hit, but check out the gondola train cars they are riding in.

RE: CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge - suhawk305 - 11-05-2023

(11-04-2023, 01:16 PM)GoldOxide_imp Wrote: Are those train commuter cars the same style as back then, suhawk?

Yes, the passenger cars look the same. Though through the years, passenger cars were replaced with better electronic information displays and new non-ergonomic seating, replacing the old non-ergonomic seating, etc.


Good pictures Gone.

RE: CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge - pdedse - 11-05-2023

(11-04-2023, 04:36 PM)Gone in 60_imp Wrote: 1. Park bike near tracks.
2. Wait for train
3. Take pictures

Our freight trains are usually festooned with graffiti, so I wanted to catch one. This was a big-un, all stacked containers, taking about ten minutes to pass, with two sets of multiple locomotives.




I also wanted to catch a passenger train. This is the Metrolink, our commuter train service that connects Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. This is the train I used to take from my town to Union Station in Downtown L.A. when I worked there daily.

BNSF, 3rd foto...My brother and his son both work for BNSF (Burlington Northern Santa Fe) in Topeka, Kansas. Those locomotives very likely have their fingerprints on them.

Along the Columbia River, BNSF runs along the north bank in Washington, while Union Pacific owns the south bank rail line on the Oregon side of the river.

While at the Bonneville Dam a few days ago, the UP train rolled by, but a little difficult to spot with all the other things going on in the photo: the locks of the dam, fall leaves, powerlines, the skeletal remains of the burned trunks...and of course, the CB1100...
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That upper forest used to be as green as the middle line of trees until a youngin' of 15 years thought shooting bottle-rockets into the forest at the height of the dry season would be fun (Sept, 2017). The fire that resulted would consume 48,000 acres, shut down a 30 mile length of interstate 84, and wouldn't be fully contained for 3 months. A couple of days after the fire started, about an 1/8" of ash covered our house, deck, cars...fun cleanup.

The boy was fined 36 million dollars (can be "collected" after 10 years, good luck there), and he was given 1920 hours of community service with the Forest Service. So many beautiful hiking trails were destroyed, some will never re-open. A sad tale all around

But, things starting to grow back after five years. It will just be another hundred and five till the forest looks similar. Whoops, off topic.
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RE: CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge - Gone in 60 - 11-06-2023

The train in that photo is a Where's Waldo!
Yeah... forest fires are not cool. We've been ominously lucky here in CA so far this year, but with all of the dry brush brought about by our winter rains, they'll be coming. The last stupid-reason fire we had was a gender reveal party in a forest park using fireworks for the reveal. Yup, huge fire erupted. But, if there's an upshot, one of the people who left the area to get away from the raining ash came and bought some motorcycle parts that I had listed.

RE: CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge - Cormanus - 11-06-2023

(11-06-2023, 04:28 AM)Gone in 60_imp Wrote: The train in that photo is a Where's Waldo!
Yeah... forest fires are not cool. We've been ominously lucky here in CA so far this year, but with all of the dry brush brought about by our winter rains, they'll be coming. The last stupid-reason fire we had was a gender reveal party in a forest park using fireworks for the reveal. Yup, huge fire erupted. But, if there's an upshot, one of the people who left the area to get away from the raining ash came and bought some motorcycle parts that I had listed.

Indeed.

RE: CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge - pdedse - 11-06-2023

(11-06-2023, 07:07 AM)Cormanus_imp Wrote:
(11-06-2023, 04:28 AM)Gone in 60_imp Wrote: The train in that photo is a Where's Waldo!
Yeah... forest fires are not cool. We've been ominously lucky here in CA so far this year, but with all of the dry brush brought about by our winter rains, they'll be coming. The last stupid-reason fire we had was a gender reveal party in a forest park using fireworks for the reveal. Yup, huge fire erupted. But, if there's an upshot, one of the people who left the area to get away from the raining ash came and bought some motorcycle parts that I had listed.

Indeed.

Indeed.
Waldo being Waldo would only blend in right behind the fall foilage, right?