American trains are great, but I guess that's my personal opinion.

I'll try to get some pictures on my trip (if I can)

Winter is taking its toll on me to picture trains

111222333444 wrote:Winter is taking its toll on me to picture trains

Especially winter gives you many places to find nice motives. At your place for example the bright orange of a BNSF Dash in front of a winter forest or the nice blue silver of a amtrak 'pepsi can' in the snow...... oh, I would love to take such a shots......



Today I've got some tram pics, taken at Linz and Leonding, both Austria and the same tram network.... One of them you might already know.... in a censored version.

Skimbo wrote:

111222333444 wrote:Winter is taking its toll on me to picture trains

Especially winter gives you many places to find nice motives. At your place for example the bright orange of a BNSF Dash in front of a winter forest or the nice blue silver of a amtrak 'pepsi can' in the snow...... oh, I would love to take such a shots......

But there's no BNSF here, just CP, CN, and VIA...

And I don't want to do it when it's -30C

VIA and CN also got nice liveries.... and I don't think canada? haz always -30° during winter....

but when you factor the windchill, which is usually -20 to -50 every winter, you only have less than 20 minutes outside

Today I have some Amtrak pictures



The Missouri River Runner aproaches Kirkwood Station, this is about 15 minutes from my house

On my Chicago trip, I stopped in this town for lunch, and found an operational Amtrak Station





and there was a small BNSF office too

That first one looks cool

D: Cool!

With the help of my drafting teacher...

wow a holiday train

I've never seen that in rl only on model railroads

Ooh... looks lurvleh!

Cool pics, Mayorm! I especially like #1 =)

and lol @111222333444 I've never seen such a thing before

Some days ago, a new rail cooperation started a regular passenger service between Vienna and Salzburg. Of coures I had to pay a Visit to austria's Westbahn and the Stadler doubledecker EMUs of Westbahn AG. thoose nice thingies top out at 200 kph and can seat 501 passengers.


4010-006 at Dürwien


a closeup on the front 006.


'Mr. Bond' (007) already killed a bird


001 posed on my favorite photo spot

Great pictures skimbo

Very nice, I hope the maglev project here can be bumped back to life so I can go take a picture or two

Ooh.. double decker!

Cool!

Thank you, guys! =)

@Aldini: Maglevs are expansive, the US have no money to waste at the moment..... does not look too good for that project.





Today I just got a trampic for you.... ULF 715 in front of the Burgtheater, Vienna.

Oh my god that is sooooooooo cool!

great picture with the theatre lit up at night

thankya, guys =)

here is some shots of dec 27th

first four taken at Gramatneusiedl, last one near Himberg, lower Austria.

Vehicles are owned by ÖBB (2,4,5) and MAV (1,3)

OOoooooOO Very Fancy

Here are some of the pics which are new to my gallery, just visit there to see all of them!


We start up with a MAV Intercity train on a Vienna-Budapest service via Hegyeshalom and Györ.


The next pic shows a tram of the City Linz.


The HSR-EMU 411 should be already known well. Seen at Linz station.


That's the cab of a West 4010 HSR-EMU


A S-Bahn train speeds out of a station in Vienna


A RailCargo Hungaria loco passes a service vehicle


Last but not least, ÖBB catenary Maintaince vehicle X552 and it's team while repairing the catenary which has been ripped off by a truck at a RR crossing. (I saw the incident, btw)

Wow! :O so good Skimbo, those pictures are definately of proffessional quality. Keep it up

Great pictures, Skimbo!

I've tried to upload some of my own, but due to Majhost being maintained and Imageshack being slow, I've only uploaded one (awful) picture of 'Prince' on the Ffestiniog Railway in Porthmadog. I'll upload some from the York Railway Museum when the image hosting websites work.