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Trains & A Camera by Jim Boeger Hard Cover
Trains & A Camera by Jim Boeger
Hard Cover
175 pages
Copyright 2009
CONTENTS
Foreword4
1 The Colorado Rockies6
2 The TRANSCON - New Mexico & Arizona26
3 Lewis & Clark's Last Days to the Pacific44
4 AMTRAK62
5 Today's CSX Through the Civil War Area of Virginia90
6 Conquering the Alleghenies106
7 Trains Along the Mighty Mississippi128
8 Some Favorites148
9 Parting Shots174
Biography/Acknowledgments176
FOREWORD
Most of us have hobbies that give us pleasure in our free time. Some collect stamps or coins, some play golf, some run marathons (have you ever seen a marathon runner smiling?) and some sit on the couch exercising with the TV remote. One of my hobbies is chasing trains. No, I don't bite their wheels when I catch them. I take their picture. And this book, written just for your enjoyment, shows some of the pictures I have taken around this great country of ours. There is no great plot, and it won't ruin the book if you turn and read the last page first.
I imagine most of the readers of this page are also rail-fans and/or train photographers. Have you ever tried to explain your hobby to your non-railfan friends or family? "Tomorrow I'm going to get up before dawn, drive a hundred or so miles, sit by the railroad tracks, and wait for a train to come past." The response, typically with a rolling of the eyes is, "You're going to do what?" It never works trying to explain why we like our hobby. But have you ever asked a golfer to explain why he gets up early to hit a ball with a stick into a gopher hole out in the middle of a cow pasture, and then take it out and hit it again into another gopher hole? We do have some pretty strange hobbies that can be hard to explain.
Once, while staying at the Station Inn in Cresson, Pennsylvania, a photographer went trackside for every train, but only took a photo of a car now and then - strange. When asked, he indicated his goal was to get a photo of every car reporting mark on the rails (i.e. the reporting mark for a car owned by the CSX railroad is CSXT). Another fellow I ran into was trying to get a photo of every engine number of the Chicago & North Western. He went to the Rochelle, Illinois, diamond day after day to try to get every engine, before the buyout by Union Pacific. Whatever approach floats your boat is okay when it comes to being a railfan.
To the "normal" citizen, a train is a long, noisy thing that blocks grade crossings, making you late for the hairdresser or whatever. Or the fictional train blocking a grade crossing can come in handy as an excuse for being a few minutes late for work - don't try using it very often.
To the news media, trains are things that derail, hitting chlorine tanks and killing people, explode into fireballs after derailing, hit school busses at grade crossings, and so on. If it isn't a catastrophe, trains probably won't make the news.
This rail photography hobby has given me an excuse to do a lot of traveling, from Virginia to Washington, from Minnesota to Arizona, and most states in between. Typically my photography goal is to get good scenery as a background, and, oh, by the way, there is a train in the picture. I have found most of my photo locations by trying to duplicate good shots I've seen in various railroad magazines, information from friends, and just driving close to a set of railroad tracks. This book is not a "how to" for rail photography, but more of a "here are some of my favorite locations" for taking train photos. I've tried to show you some of my favorite sections of the country and/ or stretches of tracks that provide some enjoyable days for good rail photography.
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