Train Scene 2017

by Bob Campbell

Overview

Experience the rail excitement throughout the entire year of 2017 through almost 200 full color images covering every month of the year, along with detailed snippets and visual trips throughout the Pacific Northwest including:
Locomotive Makes and Models identified in every shot;
Livery Parade reviewing some of the varied colors passing in front of the camera lens - plus a more detailed look at the variations BNSF provides all-by-itself as it continues to integrate the ATSF and BN color into the corporate fold, plus a couple cool Union Pacific (UP) livery catches;
Visits to -
Powerland Heritage Park
Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation Center;
A couple Bridges and the local turntable seeing action;
Vancouver Center BNSF Yard Power review;
Fright and Rolling Stock;
and finally a quick set of low-light / night images (as we tick out of room in allowable images in one ebook);
Along with that monthly visual breakdown of how we experienced rail traffic on our local BNSF / Burlington Northern Santa Fe Vancouver Center yard and maintenance system.
Whether you're a scale train modeler or an armchair railfan, this collection aims to fill any railroad void your life might be lacking in remembering 2017.
Come along with this massive set of images and enjoy the track-side views you might have missed (without getting your feet wet, nose frozen, or face sunburned - well, maybe not really that last one, but unlike many years, this was the one where you ran the risk, that's for sure).

Product Details

BN ID:	2940156003891
Publisher:	Bob Campbell
Publication date:	03/03/2019
Series:	Long Long Short Long - Railway and Railroad Images
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	15 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

The short of it: over-educated, unemployed, and annoying with a camera. Quite possibly a dangerous combination. The long of it: I've been snapping pictures for over a quarter-of-a-century on equipment ranging from a Pentax k1000 to Canon SX700hs - but nothing fancier. In fact, after they retired my Kodachrome 64 film, I hung up the 'real cameras' and settled for "digital pocket snappers." It seems ninety percent of the challenge to taking pictures is to remember your camera (would seem obvious, wouldn't it? But look around at the folks with large, fancy cameras - no wonder they claim the phone-based lens will be the death of real photography). So I do my part and pack it almost everywhere. I was a latecomer to photography, though, so I had time to grow up in many different parts of the country with my formative stage in the South, but junior high and onward in the Pacific Northwest. The last set of initials after my name tacked on by the Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine - making the 'highest degree attained' line of the survey read Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. I still live in the state of Washington with my lovely wife of over two decades who continues to be an invaluable accomplice. For any hazard I manage to avoid, our son does his best to ensure we'll see an early grave. Having spent a little time teaching, I've grown to miss a captive audience to inflict my photography upon, so thank you Smashwords for providing me a forum for dispersing my imagery pain to be loosed upon the world.