SP/SSW Trains and some Cumulus Clouds

NSCALEMIKE Dec 17, 2005

  1. NSCALEMIKE

    NSCALEMIKE TrainBoard Member

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    Being from SoCal...home of lots of hazy, smoggy skies...seeing cumulus clouds...clearly... was a bit of a rarity...got lucky this day...approximately 22yrs ago...this shot of a SP mixed manifest...heading RR east (southbound), near Glendale, Ca

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    NSCALEMIKE, Dec 17, 2005
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  2. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Clouds can surely make a picture outstanding. One nice thing about where I live. The skies are a vivid blue. And clouds can make a person just stand there, staring. I'd love to catch a train at sunset some time. With the yellows, oranges, and reds we see. Would be neat!

    :D

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  3. SP 9811

    SP 9811 TrainBoard Member

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    awesome shot Mike!
    Heres a couple with "clouds", not sure what kinds.
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  4. NSCALEMIKE

    NSCALEMIKE TrainBoard Member

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    Nice shots Thom...I think...from my brief indoctrination into weather info...while I was in the USAF...are Stratus clouds....I am filled with lots of useless information!
     
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  5. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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  6. FriscoCharlie

    FriscoCharlie Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    All good photos guys! Thanks for posting.

    Charlie
     
    FriscoCharlie, Dec 17, 2005
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  7. Tim Loutzenhiser

    Tim Loutzenhiser TrainBoard Supporter

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    How about man-made clouds:
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    And some natural ones:
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    Tim Loutzenhiser, Dec 18, 2005
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  8. EspeeEngineer

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    heres one!
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    Unit grain train working its way out of Helena, MT up to Mullan Pass. Oct. 15, 2005
     
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  9. Peirce

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    I am no expert on clouds, but these look good to me.

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  10. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    I'm no meteorologist, but clouds are clouds...
    Tunnel 7:

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  11. MP333

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    Puffy clouds, little flowers, and big steel thundering by. What could be better? :)
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  12. NSCALEMIKE

    NSCALEMIKE TrainBoard Member

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    Hey Hemi...excellent shot by Tunnel #7...nice image...how cold was it that day??

    Mike
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    NSCALEMIKE, Dec 19, 2005
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  13. fitz

    fitz TrainBoard Member

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    These are some of the funniest looking trains I ever saw, but the clouds are nice. Cancun or Cozumel 1986. Original has cuts up on top and I can't find the negs. Sorry for the off topic post, I just like this shot. :rolleyes:
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  14. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Actually wasn't all that bad.. It was MUCH colder for this shot:

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    HemiAdda2d, Dec 20, 2005
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  15. SP 9811

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    SSW 9404 and 8650 run elephant style as they pull a MTY double stack train east.
    Thom
     
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  16. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    This is the opposite shot of the same train, looking north (timetable west) of the other T7 shot:

    Almost an afterthought, and hair too early--the trailing unit's nose is still in a shadow!

    But it has clouds!

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    HemiAdda2d, Jan 1, 2006
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