Railroaders place to shoot the shit.

Cy Valley · Upgraded Condition

*cy*

Cy Valley · Upgraded Condition

I almost forgot, thank you, Clavalin!

Snippy · Force Majeure

Cy Valley wrote:
it just occurred to me that a guy got fired using his camera here.

-- Edited by Cy Valley on Saturday 25th of April 2015 05:34:01 PM

Snippy sincerely hopes it wasn't for using that camera.

Cy Valley · Upgraded Condition

Picky Snippy. It's a historical artifact. Cy tried to take good pictures but some were just grab shots. Cy hasn't the viewfinder talents that FMB, for example, has displayed. Does this look any better?

-- Edited by Cy Valley on Saturday 25th of April 2015 07:03:13 PM

Cy Valley · Upgraded Condition

Actually, I was thinking about this and I'm on a bay window NKP-type caboose, looking ahead.

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

Cy Valley wrote:
Picky Snippy. It's a historical artifact. Cy tried to take good pictures but some were just grab shots. Cy hasn't the viewfinder talents that FMB, for example, has displayed. Does this look any better?

-- Edited by Cy Valley on Saturday 25th of April 2015 07:03:13 PM

I'm pretty adept to photoshop and other photo programs and this is a shot

than can never look good.

Snippy · Force Majeure

Cy Valley wrote:
Does this look any better?

Looks a lot better. Thanks.

Snippy didn't realize that he was looking at one of the numerous Red Team mainline train wrecks on their unmaintained track before they joined the Green Team.

Glad the auto rack is empty, wouldn't have wanted to destroy any of that Detroit Big Iron of those days.

On another note, those NKP bay window cabs were the best. Rode good and had a certain ambiance to them.

Cy Valley · Upgraded Condition

Krink, it may never look good but in my dotage, I'm convinced that any picture of any long-gone scene is a glimpse into the past and to be treasured for whatever we can see in them.

Snippy, the finest cabooses I ever rode were SP and UP cabooses, both rode real well and were well equipped.

We'll ignore your comments about bad track and train wrecks, we had a safe, uneventful trip from the fine county of Cy's ancestral origins to the home of picnic table lovers in the north, it wasn't bad track, we've just left the Valley a couple of miles behind us, and passing the Ohio State fairgrounds.

Scene of the crime, some 35 years later:

Snippy · Force Majeure

The Krink wrote:
I'm pretty adept to photoshop and other photo programs and this is a shot
than can never look good.

Krink, thank you for your own sort of Tough Love visited upon *cy*. He needed that.

Snippy got it good enough that he can read that the rack closest to the camera is a Shit on the Frisco rack...

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Cy Valley · Upgraded Condition

Vera, January, 1978. When Cy was a brakie.

Troll · 500 - Internal Server Error

Cy Valley wrote:
Vera, January, 1978. When Cy was a brakie.

You're old....Troll wouldn't be 14 until May of '78.

Snippy · Force Majeure

Notice that picture was taken from the fireman's side of a Red Team steamer.

Cy Valley · Upgraded Condition

Troll wrote:
Cy Valley wrote:
Vera, January, 1978. When Cy was a brakie.

You're old....Troll wouldn't be 14 until May of '78.

Keep breathing, Troll. It'll happen.

Troll · 500 - Internal Server Error

Cy Valley wrote:
Troll wrote:
Uncle *cy* wrote:
Vera, January, 1978. When Cy was a brakie.

You're old....Troll wouldn't be 14 until May of '78.
Keep breathing, Troll. It'll happen.

-- Edited by Troll on Monday 27th of April 2015 08:36:55 AM

Troll · 500 - Internal Server Error

Snippy wrote:
Notice that picture was taken from the fireman's side of a Red Team steamer.

Tu busy taking pictures while Bobby Jo is running....