Railroad tracks #3 by goodoleboy
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Can't you hear that whistle down the line?
Captured back on 5/13/06, at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris, California.
These are low resolution fotos, so don't bother to zoom, taken before I knew what I was doing, digital camerawise, and seven days before joining the Renderosity photographic site.
The Railway Museum is an 80-acre site featuring 200 steam, diesel and electric locomotives as well as passenger and freight cars, streetcars, and other railway equipment. Rail transportation in the West from the late 1870s through the 1960s is on display.
Okay, that's what the tour book says, but may I also add that besides a museum, the site is also a graveyard and junkyard, with tons of rusted equipment lying around, loose rocks and tracks to scramble and trip over, and big red ants to elude. One can also get a good sunburn there in mid May. Simply put, it sits out in a desert.
Adjo, thankx for the peek, and for any and all favs and noncritical comments.
Comments (14)
magnus073
These are some cool photos Harry, I love the various scenes. Always enjoy visiting your gallery.
npauling
I can hear the call of the tracks so well in these captures and I think I will hitch a ride and just goooooooooooo.......
jocko500
wonderful pov on these trains tracks
MrsRatbag
But what great photographic opportunities; we have a railroad museum here too, it's a big string of disintegrating railcars of various ages, behind a chain-link fence that makes it really tough to get decent shots. I like yours better, even if it is in the desert. Excellent series of shots to make me jealous with, Harry!
bobrgallegos
Great collage!!!
Feliciti
beautiful captures of this !!like the old style trains too !
durleybeachbum
I should love to spend a day there doing rusty stuff!
Hendesse
Fantastic collage. Impressive depth, especially in the second shot. Beautiful colors, textures and excellent details!
thecytron
Xcellent clarity and details and colors!
tennesseecowgirl
Great shots!
debbielove
This is great Harry! And sounds HUGE! For the age of the pictures, they look super, really good quality mate! And, furthermore! A MASSIVE collage to boot.. Stunning.. I hope we will see more from this place.. Well shown.. Rob
Rainastorm
Harry this is so cool...I love trains...allot. I like the last two shots best...just something about that ver last one that reminds me of home...and the bright red on the other...just love it. Great shots my friend. Hope you are well...not heard much from you as of late. I do worry.
bmac62
Another neat collage of this unique museum in the sand. So much to see and to marvel at..but it doesn't sound like you'll be making a return visit to this rather forelorn place. Love all the track, switches, overhead lines, etc. I find photography in the desert to be very difficult...bright, flat light most of the day. You've handled it well, as usual.
anahata.c
some of these shots would be great with a high resolution super large formats, which of course you say you didn't have back then. But your pov's and choice of what to include---a big factor in shots like these---make them just fascinating views, and views one could jump into and sit with for a long time. The 2d & 3d show such a sense of being surrounded by typical rail-track 'tumbleweed'. They're so typical of large stretches of railway in the U.S., and you got that feel of long stretches of track surrounded by rock, sand and scruffy bush. The 1st shot has a classic sense of confluence (of tracks coming together), and the last I just love because of that 'graveyard' you speak of: the morass of dead & dying rail cars, discolored by rotting paint & metal, and piled up with other detritus that one only sees in trainyards. Most museums present their fare in the most pristine & conserved states; but it's fitting that rail museums allow the old & rusted to be part of their fare, because they're so much a part of trains. I love this collection, and the first shot really brings home where you live: Next to mountains and desert. So very different from my hometown. And bill's comment, about shooting in the desert, is fascinating: I never thought about it, as I've never come close to shooting in such a place...A compliment well-deserved, I'm sure.