Exploring Down By The Tracks...

[Drew1125]

Our resident railfan was poking around inside aan old abandoned building down by the K&I tracks, when he happened to get this shot through the doorway, of a K&I local roaring by...

 

[Tyson Rayles]

Nice perspective Charlie.

 

[mrgooch]

Hello Charlie

I know you weren't inside that building when you took that shot,so you must have placed a side of a building in front then shot through it!

 

[Woodie]

Charlie!!!

You peeping Tom!!

 

[Matthyro]

This is a great example of the kind of pictures we can get from our layouts. Show some of them around and folks think you have been on a full scale trainfanning trip

 

[sumpter250]

Charlie,
That railfan is one fast photographer! All I'd have gotten would have been a clear shot of the door, and a blur in the background.
Great shot !
Pete

 

[Tyson Rayles]

That's because the K&I local usually "ROARS BY" at a supersonic 5 or 10 mph!

 

[Drew1125]

You're right Tyson!
Bad track, & heavy traffic make for a 10mph restriction on the branchline.
As for how I got inside thet building...
Y'see, I followed this rabbit down his hole, &...

 

[roryglasgow]

That reminds me of a picture I took recently that's on one of the "undeveloped rolls." My wife and I got away for a weekend and stayed at a hotel in Dallas that just happened to be located next to a railroad track. (I swear that I did not know this when I booked the reservation! But as we were in town, ostensively, to attend a train show, I figured it fit in with "the plan.") As we were fixing to check out I heard a train coming down the track, so I ran to the side door and snapped a photo just as the engine disappeared behind a building. Now where is that roll of film...