Best of the Year : 2013 : Poll now Open

[Saturnalia]

It is close enough for 12-28 for me. Here goes the poll. It will close at 10:38 EST on New Years Eve. Pick your favorite three.

Winner gets the title of Railroadfan's Best Capture of 2013 Award

FYI, the box to vote is ABOVE each entry.

[Saturnalia]

I'm gonna choose this for the power:

[SousaKerry]

Nice!!

Hard to believe there are still a few SP units running around that aren't even patched in 2013.

[atrainguy60]

My favorite is probably the video from this spring of Q321, with a BC Rail and a CN leading, meeting a loaded CSX coal train at Newark, MI. It's not good footage(some raindrops land on the lens, some other misc. other spots here and there, etc.), but since it BC Rail and CN aren't very common visitors on the Saginaw Sub, and I it's not often I catch meets on the Saginaw Sub, I think this is probably my favorite from 2013.

[legostudios34]

Best Power -
I've got three or four choices for this one -

NS 724 with the Pennsy and NW heritage units


NS 251 with a Warbonnet SD75M leader -


NS 64G with CN and BCRail Power (Although technically this could fall to anything I shot on the CN in Mississippi this summer, I'm only gonna post stuff thats rare for the area.)


Hmm... I see a pattern here... The good stuff only comes at night or on cloudy days...
Oh wait, heres NS 23N with an Espee leader.


Best shots -
A few different options here.
NS 739 at sunset with my 576 mm lens. This would be the shot of the year if it wasn't so noisy...


Meridian and Bigbee Railroad train at Meridian, MS. This would be another possible as the absolute best shot, but I was on the dark side of the tracks.


I can probably say this is the shot of the year for me.


And my most popular shot of the year was GRYR 4166, that cabless B30-7 in Missisippi, but it was #1 most viewed on Railpics one day so I wont post it here since everyones seen it already.

So now... If you have read all this crap, vote for the overall best I've done this year!

[alittlevanwerty]

Its Christmas Eve!! Hope we get a few more entries!! I would have submitted earlier but we were in the hospital having our first child

I will add my top 5 videos and top 5 photos.


ND&W Railroad PREX 1603 at Woodburn Indiana Pile Trestle by alittlevanwerty, on Flickr


NKP 765 by alittlevanwerty, on Flickr


3 way south of Deshler by alittlevanwerty, on Flickr


RJ Corman 1856 splitting the signals by alittlevanwerty, on Flickr


CSX J030 Work Train south of Cairo Ohio by alittlevanwerty, on Flickr

[DelayInBlock]

One of my best bits came from Deshler, Ohio's Crossroads Park this October:



Another highlight, for me, was being able to film 110 with GoPro cameras outside the locomotive and in the cab:



Aaaaaand a final highlight was introducing my lady friend to the art of train watching:

[Saturnalia]

Enter, enter, enter! 11 hours and 40 minutes left!

[Y@]

Hard to really choose a best moment, as 2013 was pretty good in its entirety. Was able to make road trips to Illinois and the Virginias, as well as plenty of time closer to home. I guess for moment of the year, I'll go with this:


Insanity by Wang Halen, on Flickr

My reason for picking this is because it was an incredible "right place, right time" scenario. This dramatic sky didn't last very long, as this was taken a few minutes after the sun had physically set. The train had been waiting on a lineup at W. Deshler for nearly 30 minutes at this point, and they just happened to get their signal at the perfect moment.

[Jochs]

I like this one I captured on 9/23/13 at Smilax Rd. near New Carlisle, IN.

[Ypsi]

I have two that are my best of the year, one for a cool engine, the other for a rare move.


BN Triclops- SD60M 8133 by YpsiAmtrakBoy, on Flickr

I found an ex-BN triclops SD60M on the Water Level Route waiting to go east. This was my top power because it was the first time I had a shot to see a Triclops, and being in its BN paint made it even better


NS GP38-2 and MiTrain by YpsiAmtrakBoy, on Flickr

My other moment is a rare move, an NS GP38-2 picks up the trio of Mi-Train cars to head east to Wayne Jct. I had only seen a train on this track once before, and had never seen one move on these rails which was cool, along with the newly refurbished commuter coaches this was a pretty neat catch as well.

[Saturnalia]

I'm going to extend entries through 23:59 EST on 12-27 and hope a few more people jump in

[alittlevanwerty]

Although I am not entering this in the contest I made this edit yesterday of my best shots of 765 this year. I got to chase it on 4 different lines.


MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

[GreatLakesRailfan]

I'm going to extend entries through 23:59 EST on 12-27 and hope a few more people jump in

Thank you. I didn't see this thread until shortly before the original deadline, was on my cell phone and was unable to post anything meaningful.

Of all the shots I took in 2013, these are my personal favorites in the following categories:

Best Scenery


Best Framing


Best Power


Most Unique Power


Crowd Favorite



MQT, you can use whichever one of these you want for the contest. These are some of the better images I found in my photostream on Flickr.

[AARR]

Best Scenery

MKT - Where's this?

[GreatLakesRailfan]

Best Scenery

MKT - Where's this?

Carsonville, looking south at Sheldon (?).

[SD40-2]

For best power I'd go with these two






and this for....well yeah

[Saturnalia]

Oops, forgot to make a new post last night: The Poll is now open.

[GreatLakesRailfan]

It is close enough for 12-28 for me. Here goes the poll. It will close at 10:38 EST on New Years Eve. Pick you favorite four.

Four? The instructions said three.
Is it possible to add a little more space between the box and the image the box is above? I tried to select one of the boxes and the image opened instead...

By the way, and I ask this solely out of curiosity, why 10:38?

[Saturnalia]

It is close enough for 12-28 for me. Here goes the poll. It will close at 10:38 EST on New Years Eve. Pick you favorite four.

Four? The instructions said three.
Is it possible to add a little more space between the box and the image the box is above? I tried to select one of the boxes and the image opened instead...

By the way, and I ask this solely out of curiosity, why 10:38?

Apparently I messed up between the tab entering the info and the one with the description.

I tried to add more space, but then it adds ANOTHER box to be checked because it goes based on each new line. Notice I have to trim the byline from the Flickr posts.

10:38 because I just set it to run for x days, and I made it at 10:38 so it will run until 10:38 on 12/31. Just the default.