September 2008 Contest

[Michael Knight]

The theme for the September contest will be seasonal. Enter your images that capture the "dog days of summer."  Stormlight, sunlight, and scenes capturing heat waves as they rise are all welcome, as are any pictures taken during summer months.  Show us your summertime pictures!

All images must be of NS or its predecessors, and no more than two entries per person will be considered. If in doubt, please read the updated list of contest rules. http://jreb.org/ns/index.php?topic=4060.0

If anyone has questions, please P.M. me. Good luck!

[TonytheTiger]

Cloudy skies and scattered thunderstorms, that pop up most every day in mid summer, killed the light as this pair of ex-Conrail SD80MACs headed west from Enola, Pennsylvania, but clear skies off to the west promised better conditions, if I could get there before the train arrived.  Well, I did . . . .



Addendum (8/24/08):  I just found out that two weeks after I took this photo the 7215 was painted NS black.

Rob Kitchen
Harrisburg, PA

[Whitethorne]

J53 Coopers WV the pokey.

[Whitethorne]

18M is going from main on to main two at Hull WV the pokey!

[trainmasterrob]

23R northbound Hagerstown District H 26 Ranson, West Virginia

[CAGY 2777]

Here's NS A-37 switching Tamko in Tuscaloosa,AL kicking up dust in the hot early July sun.

[GAandFLA-RR]

Hot and bright outside, hot in the shade.  Our car shop in Savannah.

[TonytheTiger]

The orange rays of the setting sun light the nose of NS westbound train 19G at CP Ruth on the east side of Harrisburg, Pennsylvaina.



Rob Kitchen
Harrisburg, PA

[NS2593]

NS 111 rolls through the Virginia countryside under some wild looking cloud coverage.

[NS2593]

NS 15T heading west out of Bristol on a hot summer day. The crew has the front door open to try to get some air flowing through the cab.

[IORY_Engr]

Westbound coke train 412 under stormy skies @ Townwood, OH, on the Fostoria District.

AJB

[Expoacher]

  While not an NS motor, NS daily freight 147 smokes it westbound thru Antler #2 tunnel just east of Davy and just west of Mohegan, WV on a hot and humid day in the mountains. This was the first train thru after the Heartland Corridor project workers cleared main one and two for the day, thus the heavy dust thrown up and the equipment parked outside the portal. The project work calls for tunnel clearances to be raised and involves chiseling away the ceilings or notching the sides, allowing doublestacks in the near future.
  Brent A. Harrison

[Batman]

Southern Rwy GP30 exits the Civil War era tunnel in Chattanooga.

[TB4JY]

Wow!  It's really going to be hard to pick just one of these photos.  You all have done a great job.

[Michael Knight]

Get your last minute entries in because voting will begin soon! Good luck!

[Khalua10]

22A crew changes units due to air trouble on the inbound leader. The jam up in the yard is due to 111 having trouble on the trip from Knoxville clogging the A line.

[tq-07fan]

1) Rented an SUV for a day in June and eventually chased this Eastbound seen here crossing from West Virginia into Virginia at Glen Lyn.

2) It's an unusually cool early August evening in Ohio, it's around 8:30 pm as this Westbound heads into the sunset at London.

[Michael Knight]

Let the voting begin! Good luck!

[Michael Knight]

Congratulations to Mike Ray, the winner of the September 2008 contest! Thanks to all who participated!