Everyday railway photos
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Mikhail Ter


Share your own pictures about railways - rolling stock, events, infrastructure improvements, etc.

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Matthias Rikka


Ex Estonian DR1A-252.3 now owned by Pasažieru Vilciens. The cab was refurbished and passenger area too. It was renamed from DR1A to DR1AM, M standing for modernized.
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Maersk.146


UP container train on BNSF near Hardin, MO - 3 Sept 2022
NS 9763 West crosses Gill Road, Henrietta, MO - 3 Sept 2022
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Maersk.146


Near Floyd, Missouri, USA - 10 September 2022
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Maersk.146


CF&I 136 lb/yd rail, made in May 1974. Floyd, MO 24 Sep 2022
BNSF 8274 and 4745, latter showing effects of over-heated engine;
burnt paint and lettering, Hardin, MO 24 Sep 2022
John Deere harvester and grain truck, Henrietta, MO 24 Sep 2022
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Maersk.146


NS 4275 West at WB Jct., Carrollton, and Palemon, MO USA 1 Oct 2022
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Maersk.146


BNSF 3926 trails as a DPU on a long container train at Henrietta
AMTK 181 leads #4 over a trestle at Hardin, 8 Oct 2022
An ambulance races to the scene of a motorcycle accident ten miles farther, while BNSF 6897 East proceeds east on NS Main 2 at Palemon.
p.s. - The good news is that the rider's injuries were minor after he rode into a bean field and overturned.
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Maersk.146


Assorted views from 22 Oct 2022
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Maersk.146


A rainy day in Kansas City, 22 Oct 2022
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Maersk.146


BNSF at Rulo, Fortesque and Rulo; MO, 29 Oct 2022
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Lev Pavliuk 96


VL60PK-1010 at Kyiv
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Maersk.146


@LevPavliuk96 - Nice picture! In this case, the cropping of the picture as it appears above works well, but many vertical images do not work out so nicely. Nothing wrong with the picture, by any means, but verticals generally do not work well on the site.
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Lev Pavliuk 96


@Maersk.146 thanks, I agree about cropping, I have enough railway photos with a vertical orientation and many previews will really look strange 🙂 thanks for the clarification, it's a pity that I can't upload even those that will look good on the preview
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Maersk.146


@LevPavliuk96 - Sure, I like the vertical format at times, as well, but find that I rarely shoot that way any more, preferring instead to just frame horizontally and cropping in post if desired. It’s a compromise, of course, but I’m old and must choose my battles more carefully 🙂.
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Maersk.146


@LevPavliuk96 - Also, what I’m finding most pleasing these days is creating panoramic views with a 3:1 ratio for this thread. Not many participants so far, but I think the perspective is worthwhile.
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Lev Pavliuk 96


@Maersk.146 I like your 3:1 photos, especially something like that picture with ambulance and pictures with bridges, it's not as common in railway photography as 16:9 or 4:3 which already looks pretty mundane. With regards to converting 4:3 to 3:4, this is a really good advantage of FF cameras with 30+ MP)
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Maersk.146


Finally did some night photos. Floyd, MO 30 Oct 2022

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Maersk.146


A few pics that won't make the main page, Kansas City region, 4 Nov 2022
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Lev Pavliuk 96


@Maersk.146 good photos, why not put the last 2 on the main page? There are not so many photos of trains running at night on trainspo yet
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Maersk.146


@LevPavliuk96 - Thanks, Lev, I suspect they'd be voted down due to bad lighting, but I might go ahead and try the middle one, since it shows better detail of the unit than the other pic (both are same train).
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Lev Pavliuk 96


@Maersk.146 yes, the middle one is the best, just a little bit too much noise reduction, did you remove the noise via DXO?
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Maersk.146


No, it's with Photoshop CS5. I guess I'd better look at some tutorials on noise reduction. You're not the first to note that I use too much (and can tell exactly what I did). I generally do one NR application and one of Smart Sharpening, and they look "okay" to my untrained eye.
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Maersk.146


In these images, I think I was using a very high ISO, so there may not be much that can be done to smooth them out. I did just recently acquire Topaz Labs Photo AI, but have not had a chance to use it for sharpening and de-noising photos as yet.
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Lev Pavliuk 96


@Maersk.146 oh, the noise reduction in the camera raw or photoshop is rather poor quality, try topaz denoise ai and dxo photolab, these are excellent noise reduction devices that, with proper skill, give a good picture for example on d750 and iso 12800, I have been using these programs for about a year, I managed to get a good result on the d7200 and iso 6400
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Maersk.146


@LevPavliuk96
Oh, that's good to know. I am looking forward to trying those topaz apps out in the near future.
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Maersk.146


Activity near KC Union Station on 12 Nov 2022
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Maersk.146


BNSF 1974 drops off empty cement hoppers..
Sugar Creek, MO, 24 Oct 2022

UP 5432 East prepares to block my view of a
BNSF doublestack train, KCMO, 12 Nov 2022

BNSF 7853 West lights up a dark and rainy night. Sugar Creek, MO, 4 Nov 2022
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Maersk.146


Some recent wide views, Oct/Nov 2022
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Maersk.146


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Maersk.146


@bodya3504
Very nice picture!
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@Maersk.146 Thanks a lot!
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Maersk.146


ATSF 840 West pulls a special train
for Topeka Railroad Days, 6 SEP 1992
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Maersk.146


Some interesting consists seen today at Kansas City Union Station, 26 DEC 2022
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Maersk.146


A few wide views for the final day of 2022.

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Maersk.146


A few images from 7 January 2023 at KC Union Station,
and sunrise the next day at Orrick, MO:
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Rob Fox



In between the rain at Filton Abbey Wood , just north of Bristol today
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Maersk.146


@foxy
Very nice! Is there a lot of rail traffic here?
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Rob Fox


@Maersk.146 it's busy stretch there. 4 tracks . With roughly every hour is 2 trains bristol to Cardiff and back , 1 from Westbury to Gloucester or Worcester , plus stopper into Bristol. Then you get 2 passing from the South West to the North or Scotland and vice versa.

There's a few freight trains too. But not many.
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Maersk.146


Front and rear of the same train at dawn, Fleming, MO, 24 DEC 2022
In the shot at left, the orange tint from the sun was so overwhelming
that I had to crank the blue (+) and cyan (-) to the limits just to get it
to this color balance. Very bright, indeed.
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Rob Fox



Sorry for the mobile shot.

My train I'm driving tonight sat at Bath Spa. Earning my money today as we have thick fog