Railroad Vistas 2

Paul Roth

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Sujets

• Trains
• Railroads
• Transportation
• Juvenile Nonfiction
• Vistas
• Rail transport
• International
• Train

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• Publié par: AuthorHouse
• Date de parution: 06 mars 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781665569354
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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ISBN: 978-1-4685-5108-2 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-4969-5010-9 (hc)
ISBN: 978-1-6655-6935-4 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2012902631



Published by AuthorHouse 08/24/2022
TABLE OF CONTENTS


INTRODUCTION
VISTAS
PATTERNS
PEOPLE
DYNAMICS
ABBREVIATIONS
AUTHOR”S PROFILE

INTRODUCTION

This is a photographic essay on various aspects of railroads.
It is not intended as a traditional picture-book of trains and locomotives. Some scenes contain no train and some scenes with trains include no locomotive. It is, however, a compendium of scenes which depict some aspect of the railroad, its equipment, its personnel, and most importantly, its scenic context. Traditional ground-level “wedge” shots of a locomotive-headed train have been kept to a minimum.
The book’s four sections offer a pictorial view of particular aspects of railroading which have attracted the author’s interest and lens: dynamics, people, patterns and vistas. Each of these subjects is described at the beginning of a section.
All of the photographs were taken by the author.
The time span of the images is from approximately 1959 to 2011, with one exception: a picture from 1945, taken with the author’s first camera. Some of the earlier images were captured on black-and-white film, a few in the “4x4” format. All of the recent ones were photographed on digital media Most of those on color film were taken with professional-level 35-mm equipment on Kodachrome, Ektachrome and Fuji slide film, later digitized.
Some film emulsions incurred fading or color-change after many years. Therefore selected slides required color-and-contrast restoration or enhancement, which was done digitally by the author.
The reader may note a frequency of certain geographical locations. This is due to the author’s residences for extended periods of time in Western and Southeastern Pennsylvania, Southeastern Michigan and the DC area. It is intended that photos taken during a lengthy present residence in Florida will be included in a future photographic work.
Joe Jack, a retired railroader and an authority on railroad technology, history and lore, provided much-appreciated technical commentary and vetting of the book’s content. Thanks, Joe!
Comments and requests for information or prints may be addressed to [e-mail].
Paul F. Roth
Sarasota, FL, 2012
VISTAS

The railroad can provide a landmark on a geographical scene. In this sense, the train may serve as an accent - rather than the main object - of the scene. In some vistas the railroad can serve as a foreground reference point. In others it can provide a middle point-of-interest which can split the panorama. Rural scenes are particularly suited to such depiction, due to the contrast created by a mechanical object surrounded by natural scenery.
In urban scenes the railroad may have competition from objects such as buildings, signs, etc. River scenes are particularly dramatic. The railroad and the river provide compatible patterns which may contrast or support geographic scenery.
Mountains and hills can provide two aspects for photography. They provide a dramatic background or can provide a high or low location for the camera to capture the scene.
During its westbound ascent of the Rocky Mountains’ Front Range, a Denver Rio Grande Western freight train slowly climbs the grade during a light snow squall.
Far to the northwest, a westbound Canadien Pacific freight train passes through a man-made tunnel as it traverses the Canadian Rockies in British Columbia.
In the western mountains of North America, tracks are sometimes shielded from snow or rock slides by such tunnels, called “snow sheds.” A westbound train is moving through such a tunnel in a scene near Truckee Lake on the old Southern Pacific “Overland Route” through the California Rockies.
On the eastern slopes of the range, a Montana Rail Link train is descending through the foothills into the Clark Fork River valley near Missoula, MT.

In the eastern US, the Pennsylvania Railroad – later Penn Central – climbed the eastern slope of the Allegheny Mountains via the Horse Shoe Curve, seen here in two pictures. A westbound Penn-Central freight rounds the curve, passing the observation park which –for many years - displayed one of the railroad’s signature “K-4s” steam locomotives.
The curve is also viewed from a westbound PRR passenger train whose six locomotives are passing near the same location as those in the previous scene.
Mountain passes and valleys also provide an interesting setting for railroad pictures. Cajon Pass, in southwestern California provides access to the Los Angeles Basin through the San Bernardino Mountains from the Mojave Desert. Two railroad lines, Southern Pacific (upper line) and Santa Fe/ Union Pacific (lower line) traverse “Blue Cut” in the Pass and provide a view of two westbound trains descending.

Farther north in California the Feather River Canyon passes through the Sierra Nevada Range, where an eastbound train labors uphill towards the California-Nevada line.
An interesting type of mountain railroading is the rack line which provides traction and braking for the passenger service which carries pilgrims and visitors to the monastery atop Montserrat in southeastern Spain.
The Mojave Desert! It is a hostile, arid, mountainous region which hosts two colorful phenomena: outrageously vivid blooms in the springtime and frequent passage of BNSF trains. For many miles the mainline east-west tracks are visible from Routes US-66 or I-20, from which we view a westbound BNSF container train.
Crossing New Mexico just east of Gallup, BNSF traverses arid country and passes by a range of red hills. Viewed from I-20, a westbound freight skirts the range near Thoreau, NM.