Name That Station!

[Shanghai]

Elkhart, IN

 

[ALC Rail Writer]

I think you're only allowed to make one guess per day but no.

 

[Notelvis]

Washington Union Station?

 

[ALC Rail Writer]

You got it! That's a shot of 181 leading 30 into WAS, they hit a car around Waterloo and were late picking me up in ALC.

 

[Notelvis]

Cool -

Here's an active station...... photo taken within the past year.

Who can name it first?

 

[AG1]

Mendota, IL

Was that photo taken on film ?

 

[Notelvis]

Yes - Mendota, IL

And yes - taken using film. We had some old 35mm rolls sitting in a drawer that needed to be used up so that's what I took with me (and an old 35mm camera) when I went for a ride on the California Zephyr in February 2013. I was in roomette 10 in the last sleeper and had the railfan window right outside my door. Outside temperature was about 3 degrees.

The photos I wound up with were mostly mediocre but I got a few really nice ones. I scanned the prints so that I could juice the color a little and hide some shadows...... as well as dirt on the window..... a little bit.

FWIW - my avatar photo got the same treatment. It's a scan of a print taken on film of a special excursion train using Amtrak equipment descending Old Fort Mountain in Western North Carolina in the mid-1990's.

Your turn to post RRRick!

 

[AG1]

Yes - Mendota, IL

And yes - taken using film. We had some old 35mm rolls sitting in a drawer that needed to be used up so that's what I took with me (and an old 35mm camera) when I went for a ride on the California Zephyr in February 2013. I was in roomette 10 in the last sleeper and had the railfan window right outside my door. Outside temperature was about 3 degrees.

The photos I wound up with were mostly mediocre but I got a few really nice ones. I scanned the prints so that I could juice the color a little and hide some shadows...... as well as dirt on the window..... a little bit.

Your turn to post RRRick!

I couldn't tell if you were degrading the pixels too blur the station sign or not. I couldn't read the sign but the number of letters was right for Mendota plus the museum cars to the left were in my own photos. I missed your "cool" notation the first time around.

 

[AG1]

Next station ! This might be a duplicate. I haven't gone back through the 200 pages too check.

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[amtkstn]

La junta co? Current crew change point

 

[AG1]

La junta co? Current crew change point

La Junta, CO, is correct ! It is your turn.

 

[cirdan]

Yes - Mendota, IL

And yes - taken using film. We had some old 35mm rolls sitting in a drawer that needed to be used up so that's what I took with me (and an old 35mm camera) when I went for a ride on the California Zephyr in February 2013. I was in roomette 10 in the last sleeper and had the railfan window right outside my door. Outside temperature was about 3 degrees.

The photos I wound up with were mostly mediocre but I got a few really nice ones. I scanned the prints so that I could juice the color a little and hide some shadows...... as well as dirt on the window..... a little bit.

FWIW - my avatar photo got the same treatment. It's a scan of a print taken on film of a special excursion train using Amtrak equipment descending Old Fort Mountain in Western North Carolina in the mid-1990's.

Your turn to post RRRick!

You can probably get a far crisper picture if you scan the negative. I recently invested in a Nikon negative scanner and started scanning my favorites from among my old negatives and these pictures are invariably much richer and crisper than the mediocre prints I've been hanging onto all these years ever were. My problem was that I always had my prints done at a cheap store rather than professionally, and I guess they weren't even checking if their equipment was properly color-calibrated or focussed, hence the lousy print quality.

 

[Notelvis]

Yes - Mendota, IL

And yes - taken using film. We had some old 35mm rolls sitting in a drawer that needed to be used up so that's what I took with me (and an old 35mm camera) when I went for a ride on the California Zephyr in February 2013. I was in roomette 10 in the last sleeper and had the railfan window right outside my door. Outside temperature was about 3 degrees.

The photos I wound up with were mostly mediocre but I got a few really nice ones. I scanned the prints so that I could juice the color a little and hide some shadows...... as well as dirt on the window..... a little bit.

FWIW - my avatar photo got the same treatment. It's a scan of a print taken on film of a special excursion train using Amtrak equipment descending Old Fort Mountain in Western North Carolina in the mid-1990's.

Your turn to post RRRick!

You can probably get a far crisper picture if you scan the negative. I recently invested in a Nikon negative scanner and started scanning my favorites from among my old negatives and these pictures are invariably much richer and crisper than the mediocre prints I've been hanging onto all these years ever were. My problem was that I always had my prints done at a cheap store rather than professionally, and I guess they weren't even checking if their equipment was properly color-calibrated or focussed, hence the lousy print quality.

That's a great suggestion. I may give that a try for all the old stuff I have saved in shoe boxes. Going forward though I don't plan to use film anymore...... the digital technology has improved to the point where the casual hobby photos I take of trains I ride (or encounter by chance) come out better..... and without the expense of developing photos that are mediocre or worse.

 

[Notelvis]

It's been three days with no new action so I'm going to toss up a fairly easy one........ keeping in the spirit of the holiday season of course.

Who will be the first to name this active Amtrak Station and then post a station photo of their own?

 

[amtkstn]

Glenwood springs?

 

[railiner]

No doubt about it.....

 

[Shanghai]

Yes, it is Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

Look at that beautiful snow!!

 

[Notelvis]

amtkstn is correct. Glenwood Springs.

Your turn to post another photo.

Also, my apologies...... got caught up in Christmas preparations today and forgot that I had posted a photo last night!

 

[railiner]

Yes, it is Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

Look at that beautiful snow!

A good place for it!

And, easy for you to say, saying it from Florida.....

 

[Grandpa D]

To keep this alive until NotElvis gets his upload problem solved...

(I haven't been following this lately; I hope it's not a duplicate.)

 

[Notelvis]

That's an attractive station...... no idea where it is though!

 

[Grandpa D]

Hint # 1 -- This station has only two trains a day, one in each direction. And, especially this time of year, they both arrive and leave in the dark.

 

[FreeskierInVT]

Just a wild guess: Texarkana, AR/TX?

 

[Ryan]

Is that the new Norfolk station?

 

[Shanghai]

Houston, TX