Official Train, Plane, and Tram thread #18

A cool, clear, beautiful day on the Atlantic and a fun, well-paced air show featuring the Italian Frecce Tricolori flying team, US Air Force, US Navy, and WW2 warbirds. All in all, a great day with my new-ish OM System OM-1 Mark II and Leica Panasonic 100-400mm zoom.

It's been a while since anyone's posted in this thread, so I thought I'd resurrect it

The Severn Valley Railway had another photography evening earlier this month, and I was lucky enough to get a ticket. I was also really lucky with the weather, as my drive up was horrible, it took three hours of driving in torrential rain to get there, but miraculously it stayed dry whilst I was there!

More BR blue preserved diesels; including five of my favourite Class 50's!


From left to right: Class 50, Class 17, Class 46, Class 40, Class 25, and Class 20


Class 08, Class 20, and Class 42


50044. D8568, 46045, and 40106


50035, 50033, 50049 and 50007 around the turntable


50033, 50049, 50007 and 50035


50035 on the turntable


Class 40, 40106 with steam heating boiler on.


50044. D8568, 46045, 40106, 25262 and 20048


50044, 40106 (steam boiler on), 25262 and 20048 (long exposure)


50044, D8568, 46045 (boiler on), and 40106 (boiler on)


A couple of BR drivers giving their uniforms a steam pressing


50033 Glorious, and 50035 Ark Royal


50035 Ark Royal, 50033 Glorious, 50049 Defiance, and 50007 Hercules


BR Class 08 (13201) and in the distance Network Rail test train 153311 (VIU 1) - VIU = Video Inspection Unit


50044, 40106, 25262 and 20048

In case you were wondering why diesel locos are producing steam; although modern UK rolling stock uses ETH (electric train heat), older carriages built during the steam era were heated directly by steam, so the early passenger locomotives were fitted with boilers to provide "steam heat"

All taken using a Sony A7R4 and the Sony 24-105 f4 G/OSS lens.

If you'd like to read more about most of the locomotives, you can find information here:

https://www.svrwiki.com/Diesel_Locomotives

The Class 50's are operated by the Fifty-Fund-Alliance and more information about that can be found here:

https://www.fiftyfund-alliance.co.uk/locos

Enjoy!

Thanks Lan for trying to breathe some new life into the thread. Here's my contribution

An Osaka to Tokyo Shinkansen service arrives at Kyoto around sunset. Taken through glass from the top of the Kyoto Tower.


Sunset Shinkansen

Caught CSX engine #911 leading a local rock train in Tampa, FL. This is probably the most eye-catching and popular CSX engine.

Very high ISO photography, all captures from 4k video using Adobe Premiere Pro with Neat denoise plugin, and DxO Photolab 6 for final processing.


CSX 911 'Spirit of our First Responders' backing L778 up Neve Wye S. Canon R8, RF 35mm f1.8, 1/160s, ISO 25,600


CSX 911 'Spirit of our First Responders' crossing N 39th St, leading L778


CSX 911 'Spirit of our First Responders' rear seen from N 39th St

Larry Rexley said:

Caught CSX engine #911 leading a local rock train in Tampa, FL. This is probably the most eye-catching and popular CSX engine.

Very high ISO photography, all captures from 4k video using Adobe Premiere Pro with Neat denoise plugin, and DxO Photolab 6 for final processing.

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Excellent shots Larry! It's remarkable how much wider our shooting envelope is these days, with better cameras, faster lenses and far better noise reduction software

Lan said:

Larry Rexley said:

Caught CSX engine #911 leading a local rock train in Tampa, FL. This is probably the most eye-catching and popular CSX engine.

Very high ISO photography, all captures from 4k video using Adobe Premiere Pro with Neat denoise plugin, and DxO Photolab 6 for final processing.

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Excellent shots Larry! It's remarkable how much wider our shooting envelope is these days, with better cameras, faster lenses and far better noise reduction software

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Agree... I've been trying for more than 3 years to do low-light photography of trains.... and only now are mainstream consumer gear and post-processing options up to the task. Amazingly this is off 4k video... I could have done this from RAW files a couple years ago.

A few train snaps from a recent round the island journey using trains, planes and car. Overall I was impressed by TR passenger rail service. The bento boxes offered at stations and onboard were delicious and inexpensive.


Hitachi EMU3000 at Chihshang crossing


EMU3000 at Chihshang station


E1000 at Taichung station


TEMU2000 at Taichung


DR1000 on the tourism oriented Pingxi branch line

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"No matter how elegant the subject, an image requires something more than a literal recording of that scene. It needs a moment a gesture or light or color to add that third dimension and make it memorable." - Annie Griffiths

Merry Christmas everyone!

Not sure whether I've lost track of the current thread, or whether this is it?!

Anyway, an increasingly popular trend in England at the moment is to light up steam trains with Christmas lights during the winter months. As it always seems to be dark at this time of year, at least it gives me something to point my camera at during those long cold evenings!

Here's my 2024 batch:


1. Waiting for the off!


2. Train waterfall; long exposure of the train coming towards me


3. Steam sign, with reflections of Christmas lights. Seemed an accurate reflection to me!


4. Waiting for the off, now facing the right way, with a shunter (assumed BR Class 08)


5. More light trails, with reflected platform lights

All taken with the Sony A7R4 and Sony 24-105 f4 G/OSS, and processed using DxO PhotoLab and in some cases EasyHDR (#1 and #4).

I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas, and that Santa brings you plenty of shiny things to play with in the year ahead

Spent a few hours on Christmas Eve Eve at the Strasburg Railroad. Caught some images of the their Santa train at sunset.

Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday!

Thanks

H

Old Bridge, New Bridge, Rail Bridge, Tram Bridge

Grabbed this shot quickly while walking and recalled this thread. The tram is our regional Sky Train system. Might be best to enlarge to original size.

peace

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Trains... a great subject. Even Richard Butler thinks so! Haven't posted here in a long time.

peace

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Prague


Great Central Railway, UK


Great Central Railway, UK

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An unusual post for me, as I'm usually focussed on trains, not planes.

Not really an intergalactic flight, but I loved the juxtaposition of the aircraft flying in front of the full moon!


1. Space travel?

Sony A7R4 and Sony 200-600 G/OSS, proceeded in DxO PhotoLab v8. I hope you like it

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Are there still watercress beds in Havant ?

I spent my childhood there, but my impression was that the watercress had gone ?

Don

Lan said:

An unusual post for me, as I'm usually focussed on trains, not planes.

Not really an intergalactic flight, but I loved the juxtaposition of the aircraft flying in front of the full moon!


1. Space travel?

Sony A7R4 and Sony 200-600 G/OSS, proceeded in DxO PhotoLab v8. I hope you like it

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Stunning image you got here Lan. I wish I had taken it. :-D

Just love it!

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Box Man

Thank you, Hamada-san! Very kind

D Cox said:

Are there still watercress beds in Havant ?

I spent my childhood there, but my impression was that the watercress had gone ?

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Unfortunately, I think they're all gone. I certainly can't see any when I look at satellite view on Google.

There are still some near The Watercress Line though!