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Post by philmco on Dec 11, 2005 17:16:08 GMT -5
 Local model train enthusiast providing rides for kids at Xmas. F5, 35-70 2.8, with Fuji 400 and SB28 flash |
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Post by vintageslrs on Dec 11, 2005 21:26:52 GMT -5
Nice shot Phil...
you captured the moment in time!! ;D
Bob
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Post by Randy on Dec 11, 2005 23:16:02 GMT -5
Nice Pennsy K-4 Phil. We have a park a ways from here that has a simular setup. The place is called Penitentary Glen and is in Kirtland Ohio. They run quite a few live steam locomotives there.
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Post by philmco on Dec 12, 2005 1:25:10 GMT -5
I am amazed at the power of one of these small engines. It can pull about 5 cars of similar scale to the engine and with about a dozen kids in/on it. All at speeds of approximately 15-20 KPH.
At various times during the summer there can be as many as a half a dozen of these things - some a bit bigger and some a little smaller, all providing free rides for anyone wanting one. They run around the grounds (several acres) over bridges and through the woods out here.
Phil
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Post by Randy on Dec 12, 2005 7:19:33 GMT -5
Makes you wish you could afford one, eh? But they aren't cheap either. I've got about 50 H-O Scale engines, and that's the extent of my involvement in the model railroading hobby.  |
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Post by herron on Dec 12, 2005 9:54:43 GMT -5
I've still got the Lionel O-gauge (I think that's right...it's the one where the engine is about 8" [20cm?] long). I got it for Christmas when I was about seven...which makes it 50 years old this year! It has the old black steam engine, a coal car, a box car, a passenger car, an open freight hauler and the caboose. Still works, although I have not actually had it out of the box for about 10 years...since my kids got too old to think it was neat under the Christmas tree!  Doesn't exactly make me a model railroad collector, I guess!   |
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Post by PeterW on Dec 12, 2005 12:54:32 GMT -5
Phil,
I like the shot of the big guy on the small engine. You've caught it with some steam hovering over the top and a jet of steam from the back of the cylinder (?). The flash has covered it nicely.
Randy: With your 50 HO engines, all your large scale diecasts and your cameras where on earth do you keep them all? Have you built an extension on the back of the house? Or maybe bought the house next door just to display them? ;D
Peter
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Post by kamera on Dec 12, 2005 15:30:40 GMT -5
Phil,
The shot is great...and the bellowing steam really adds to it.
Glad to see it was the good ol' Pennsylvania line as that is where I was born and reared. Have a lot of memories from those days when the line ran about 100 yards behind our house.
We have similar ones around here, but not that small.
Peter,
The different collections are like pets...they allow the humans to live in the house...usually just in a small room or two instead of the other way around like with most of us. Right...Randy??
Ron Head
Kalamazoo, MI
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Post by Randy on Dec 12, 2005 19:20:11 GMT -5
Phil, I like the shot of the big guy on the small engine. You've caught it with some steam hovering over the top and a jet of steam from the back of the cylinder (?). The flash has covered it nicely. Randy: With your 50 HO engines, all your large scale diecasts and your cameras where on earth do you keep them all? Have you built an extension on the back of the house? Or maybe bought the house next door just to display them? ;D Peter Well, let's see...80+ cameras, 300+ 1/18 diecasts, 200+ model kits, 50 locomotives and about 400+ freight cars, one cat, and two humans...YIKES! Not to mention my record collection. I still have room, everything is arranged rather well actually. No problem Peter! |
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Post by Randy on Dec 12, 2005 19:23:28 GMT -5
Phil, The shot is great...and the bellowing steam really adds to it. Glad to see it was the good ol' Pennsylvania line as that is where I was born and reared. Have a lot of memories from those days when the line ran about 100 yards behind our house. We have similar ones around here, but not that small. Peter, The different collections are like pets...they allow the humans to live in the house...usually just in a small room or two instead of the other way around like with most of us. Right...Randy?? Ron Head Kalamazoo, MI Right Ron! All this stuff keeps me off the streets! ;D |
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Post by PeterW on Dec 12, 2005 20:46:09 GMT -5
Randy wrote:
Oh, very simple then. I've got a big old Victorian house and at the moment there are six adults plus another (my eldest grandson's girlfriend) who practically lives here, a very lively four-year-old with all his boxes of toys and impedimenta, four cats and a Border Collie - not to mention my 250-odd cameras, about 80 1/43 scale diecasts, the magazines and books I've lost count of and all my other bits and pieces like guitars and clocks and ... Loads of room, and never a dull moment!! ;D
Peter
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Post by kamera on Dec 13, 2005 11:58:46 GMT -5
The 'never dull moment', Peter is a big thing...seriously...yes, there are times that it can seem rather hectic but if you think about it...it is what keeps we aging characters youthful, up to date on things and our minds sharp!!
And as Randy said...and I had not thought of this before...and although he was joking...it keeps us off the streets...and I will add...out of mischief.
You see...by nature we photogs are a mischievous bunch...but all in fun. I know a lot of guys who are always 'out on the streets' and never spend quality time with their SO and family. It seems we at the CCG enjoy our 'vices or addictions' but our families come first.
Some of you have SO's who participate in the hobby and some of us don't. Jeanneatte participates in the sense that she chooses which photos to enlarge/mount and hang in main part of the house and her den. In my den, she doesn't care. In the main part of the house, we have a couple purchased canvas paintings, my photos and an assortment of old photos from each side of our families.
Gee...does this rambling make any sense!?
Ron Head
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Post by PeterW on Dec 13, 2005 14:13:20 GMT -5
Perfect sense, Ron. Family must always come first. I know a couple of 'serious' collectors, the sort of one-make-only collector who classes a camera as a different model because the original standard lens has a different shade of lens coating, and that HAS to be documented for posterity. They tell me my collecting is haphazard and disorganised. Fine, I like it that way! I like digging into details, but I also like to keep things in proportion.
The result of their brand of collecting is that, except when they're with other like-minded collectors they're rather boring recluses, poring over lists and catalogues and almost strangers to their families. To bring this back on topic, if it were small-scale locomotives they were interested in they would be rivet counters.
Peter
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Post by herron on Dec 13, 2005 14:25:06 GMT -5
The result of their brand of collecting is that, except when they're with other like-minded collectors they're rather boring recluses, poring over lists and catalogues and almost strangers to their families. To bring this back on topic, if it were small-scale locomotives they were interested in they would be rivet counters. Lord, let me never become a rivet counter! My family is far too important to let that happen! What a way to put it in perspective...thanks, Randy and Peter. |
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Post by philmco on Dec 14, 2005 9:18:34 GMT -5
And I just wanted to show a happy guy with his hobby!
Phil
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