April 2014 Contest "Steam"

[Forum Admin]

With the start of the Spring "21st Century Steam" schedule already underway for the year, the theme for the April contest will be STEAM! 

Show us your best Two Steam shots of the Southern or NS Steam program. Images MUST be taken by you, and must feature a engine used by the Southern or NS during either era of the excursion program. You may enter up to Two images, and standard contest rules apply. 

Entries will be taken up till 10pm on Friday, April 25th.   

[TylerHardin33]

Here is my only two encounters with steam so far. I hope I managed to capture the "WOW" factor


Southern 630 running on the Belt line through Chattanooga after returning from Attalla at Dusk.


765 powers up the grade at Climber Indiana as it heads West towards Lafayette Indiana.

[Batman]

triple header at Brown.   Nov 1991 Chattanooga, Tn



SR 630 greets the NS OCS at Jersey.    Chattanooga , Tn.    Oct 2013

[chipallen16]

SOU 630 on the East Industrial Lead (Belt Line) during the Attalla trips last fall:



SOU 630 at Valley Head on the same trip:



-Chip 

[JHood4501]

My two from last spring's trips:

Photo 1: SOU 630 sprints beside Highway 11 near Collinsville on the March 2nd, 2013 Chattanooga to Attalla round trip.

Photo 2: A man and young boy pose in front of SOU 630 following the final Spencer to Barber Junction round trips in April 2013. To me this captures what the steam program is all about: timeless memories with those from every generation.

[K8DTI]

N&W 1218 at Richwood, Kentucky on June 10, 1990.

[K8DTI]

N&W 611 begins it assault on Saluda Grade at Melrose, North Carolina on May 30, 1993.

[Ptrainman]

630 pulling out of Bristol headed for Radford on April 5th.




Paul

[Ptrainman]

630 sprints north at Glade Springs, VA




Paul

[butch]

This may be the best contest ever!

Here are my two entries; first is 630 coming through Jarrett's Tunnel in the NC Loops.   The second is the NKP 765 leading the NS Pokey excursion going through the KY Hatfield Tunnels.

[John Owens]

In November of 2013, the Southern 630 and friends thunder through the country near White Pine, TN on a round trip from Knoxville to Asheville.

John

[Bill Richardson]

   In the early 1990s I made photos of an excursion train that stopped at Princeton, KY.  Nickel Plate 765 was pulling it.  Looking through these photos in the contest, I found one photo of 765.  I got out my pictures of that excursion train to see what I had.  There it was--#765.  I didn't know anything about the Nickel Plate RR back then.  I just went to make photos of a train with a steam engine that stopped for a photo op for visitors.  Photo made with a 35mm SLR, color negative film.  I scanned the film. Adjusted the tones to where it looks pretty good on my computer.   [It showed up darker on jreb.]

   I am going to attach this photo here, instead of using Photobucket.  Using my old computer. Can't get into Photobucket. 

[NSyorktown]

Mr. Forum Admin for the photo contest:

No image to contribute; just a comment.  I sure hope you give us plenty of votes this month!  

So far, the pics are outstanding . . . and it's going to be hard to narrow down the "best" images to only one or two scenes.  

Last month you had to run a tie-breaker round for the top photo, and this month I could see 4-5 images getting significant votes.  What a great group of entries so far!

[Ponce de Leon]

I agree...great images! I'd much rather see the work of others than post my images...so I'll just take the Jimmy Swaggart route: "....I just want to watch..."

[T. Mahan]

Here's my pair of deuces, don't know how they'll fare against some of the rest, good topic this year!  Both photos are from the 2012 Railfest at TVRM.

1) With the second ever public mainline steam excursion of the new NS steam program, 630 wastes no time getting up to track speed!

2) 630 shoves out on to the NS main with a trainload full of happy passengers!

[Gage O'Dell]

Now that I can finally add something to the contest

1) SOU 630 leads NS 066 across Elk Creek in Woodman, KY




2) SOU 630 leads the Afternoon trip across the Wye in Devon, WV

[Forum Admin]

Thanks for all of the awesome entries folks, this may be one of the better contest we have had! 

Be looking and thinking about who you want to vote for. The poll will go up Late Saturday or early Sunday, depending on the staff schedule. 

[Forum Admin]

Thanks for the outstanding number of entries this month!  The poll is open and will be active until Thursday, May 1 @ 11:00 pm.   Be sure to get your votes in before then.

The topic for the May Contest will be announced around May 1st.

[Forum Admin]

Just a reminder, voting closes tonight at 10pm Est. Be sure to get your votes in before then!

[Forum Admin]

Congratulations to Gage Odell "Trainchaser2" for his winning Image "Southern 630 at Devon WV"

Thanks to everyone for sharing your great steam images.  The Subject of the May contest will be announce at the First of the week.