Weekly Modeling Photo Challenge "Motive Power" Ends Sunday, December 6th The winner of this challenge will receive a Ten Dollar Gift Certificate to RailroadMerchant.com! *Please read all rules as they may have changed from previous weeks* If you notice a typo, error, or confusing statement, please notify user Mark Watson immediately for correction and clarification. Modeling Photo Challenge Topic: "Motive Power" 1. Challenges are open to everyone, have fun!! 2. The entry deadline is Midnight (UTC -11), Sunday, December 6th. Late entries will be accepted up until the official "Time's up!" post within the thread. 3. For photos to be eligible they must be taken between Monday, November 29th and Sunday, December 6th. Please use the challenge as a motivation to take a new photographs! 4. Any posts with images taken before the commencement of the challenge will not be included in the poll and may be moved to the cutting room floor thread. - Ensure dates and times on your camera are correct. - 5. Only one image per participant so please choose the image carefully. 6. Though realism is popular among voters, it is not required. Any image or snap shot related to the topic is acceptable! 7. Though not required, commenting on other peoples pictures is encouraged. 8. Please use the Cutting Room Floor thread for related but ineligible images. 9. A clever and distinctive title for your image helps identify it among voters. (And makes it easier for me when posting the poll ) 10. Photo editing and enhancing is perfectly acceptable and even encouraged, however the subject and focal point must remain that of a physical model. On December 7th, all entries will be put up for a public vote, in which all members of TrainBoard may vote for their favorite entry(s), regardless of whether you submitted an entry or not. Voting will last 4 days. You may vote for multiple entries. To do this, you must select all entries for which you wish to vote at once, and then click the submit button. Prize information: The result of the member vote will determine the gift certificate winner. If the result is a tie, a tie breaker vote will be held. A limit of two awards per member per year will apply. Should any member win a third challenge within one year, their photo will receive 1st place congratulations, however the gift certificate prize will be awarded to the next eligible runner up. The winner will receive instructions on how to claim the award via Private Message. If you have won and you do not receive your instructions within one week, please Private Message Mark Watson. If you have any further questions, please also direct them to Mark Watson. Please thank RailroadMerchant.com for offering this generous prize! Other rules and/or restrictions may apply. All rules subject to change without notice.
Hello everyone, If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then the images that have appeared in TrainBoard’s Modeling Photo Challenge are probably worth millions. Every entry represents hours of love and dedication for this awesome hobby and sharing the work is meaningful. The photographs provide artful examples of the great talent here, but also give others ideas and inspiration. That is why we are very pleased to be the sponsor of this event. Our thanks to Mark for all the work he puts in to make the Photo Challenge interesting, useful and fun for the members. I look forward to working with Mark on this project and wish all of you the best of luck with your photo entries! Roger Bernhardt The Portfolio Store at RailroadMerchant.com
Boy Roger! I should have let you design the announcement graphic! That's a beautiful poster. And all I had was plain old text on mine.
No worries. And the weathering job on that piece of motive power is excellent! Very well done. :thumbs_up:
SUNDOWN SD&AE #104 pulls into Jacumba late in the afternoon, while an eastbound tenwheeler waits for an open track.
Motive power? Ya wan' motive power? I got motive power. How 'bout 4000 ponies? Fast flyin', snow swirlin', an' steam billowing out with the smoke in the cold crisp sunshine. It's a J Class Northern type motive-atin' the crew to keep alert. :shade:
Great shots so far. I'm hoping to be able to contribute a shot of my new 2-10-2 steamer, but I don't think it's going to arrive in time... :tb-sad:
Thanks, Mark. Looking at the entries so far, your announcement did just fine! Every image is stunning...I am just glad that I don't have to select a winner! Roger
Wow! Outstanding entries, so far. Looks like this is just going to be a contest filler. Power hand off of K4s NO.1361 to E8A No. 5766, which, alas, in a few short years would become permanent. DJ.
Keep the photos coming! Tom, Bruce, Crandell, DJ, and Jim, all excellent photos! I'm with Roger, I'm glad my vote is not the only one selecting the winner! Absolutely! Remember, you miss 100% of the shots you DON'T take.
Locos at the Roundhouse A SP GS-4 pulls onto the turntable to be brought into a stall for maintenance. This is a busy facility, with steam and diesel, and many lines represented. WP F3 MU consist awaits the turntable bridge availability