Pic of the Day. Amtrak Cascades

ECP: Agreed.

# 3 Eric

Unfortunately once the plane became common, long haul passenger train travel was doomed. It was never as profitable as freight anyway, so the railroads were happy to dump it off on the government.

Don’t forget the post office took all the mail contracts away from the RR’s and gave them to the Airlines to help prop them up. The Zepher was getting 1-2 mil a year for the post office. when that was gone it became unprofitable over night.

#5 I disagree about a frontal shot. As it is now, there is implied motion away from the person’s point of view which wouldn’t be there in a frontal view. If you use the rule of thirds, it might have been a bit better by moving the train a little bit closer to the bottom of the picture. Otherwise, I like the picture.

In my opinion, having a high speed train between Tampa and Orlando would be a big plus for tourism. People could stay in Tampa for the beaches and just be an hour away from Disney World without having to fight the nightmare of I-4.

I’ve been on amtrak multiple times on long haul trips. One thing I notice is that despite the criminal lack of funding, the employees work very hard and are quite courteous. The food isn’t too bad and the experience is relaxing.
You can tell the employees are frustrated at Amtrak, but they do their work as best they can.

Nice pic.

Hey John, ever think you could see a beautiful sunset in The Bronx? (Throggs Neck)

these are a few blocks from my house raw from the camera, no edits.

the first two are from oct 25 2009 (note: we just had just been chem-trailed for four days prior to the 10/25 pics..whenever they do this, we typically get these wild
red cloud sunsets. -sometimes they produce purple, red and orange sunsets.

-the Whitestone Bridge pic is from august 2008 and taken from near the base of the Throggs Neck Bridge. (about a 20min walk from home)

use them if you wish.

Enjoy!

http://soundwash.net/pics_sky/bronx_sunset_01.jpg
http://soundwash.net/pics_sky/bronx_sunset_02.jpg
http://soundwash.net/pics_sky/whitestone_bridge_01.jpg

-s

Nice pics #10. Especially the power pole and wires.

I live in Seattle and take Amtrak to Vancouver B.C. all the time. It’s one of the most scenic routes, along the water for most of the trip. A MUCH better way to cross the boarder than by car where you can end up with odd waits, especially back in to the U.S. from Canada.

#11 –yeah that EXIF info has been perplexing me, as i’ve never programmed the camera w/my name and the current box i use to surf the net
is an old office PC I inherited and is still regged to the heating company it came from.

#12, -thank you.

my g/f bitches about the wires screwing up the shots. -however, i rather like the effect of them in the shot myself.

fwiw: -i typically underexpose sunset/cloud shots by -1 to -1.3 f-stops in an attempt to force an increase in depth of field (and for deeper colours and effect) as manual mode on a canon 560 still favours higher shutter speeds over higher f-numbers, (and the other program modes are pretty much fried from taking lightening shots in the rain)

-i had a full blown EOS 620
system along with my original full compliment of screw mount and K-mount lenses for my pentax spotmatic and K1000 I grew up with..all which were stolen in 2002.. -a very sad day.

never replaced any of it. -though i’m seeing some awesome stuff showing up in pawn shops that may entice me..

anyway..

-s