Nifty Fifty Finds, 50 Railroad and Railway Discoveries: Long - Long - Short . Long -

by Bob Campbell

Overview

This colorful exploration of the best of the rest covers everything from Holstein's on wheels (Port of Tillamook Bay dairy cow livery) to the somewhat normal seen in a different light (Southern Pacific's 4449 Daylight Special stripped of the fancy panels and decoration) to little local units most will never get a chance to see (and I might never find again).

These one hundred fifty photographs also cover a wide range of travel from Alaska to Texas, although most will obviously be from the Pacific Northwest with Vancouver, Washington being a little over-represented.

So pick up the pace and ponder through my top fifty finds over the past twenty-odd years behind the lens. (And no jokes about "That's twenty years and the odd one is behind the lens.")

Table of Contents:
Cow Ho!
Grain Train
Port of Morrow Surprise
Triple Treat
- Back in Black
- Mini-Munchkin
- Classic Switcher
Kansas City Southern Livery
Seahawk Service
SP 4449 Daylight Special
Lyle Train Bridge
Everyone Has a Kink - SDPX
Heritage Units
- Penn Central
- Chicago North Western
Rent the CIT Blues
Great Northern Fantasy Find
- F7A
- Empire Builder Heavy Weight
Side Cupola Caboose
Bagged and Stuffed Steamies
Working Shortline Mt Hood Railway
"C" Is For...
Nickel Plate Shark-Nose
Registry Reassignment Hijinks
PNWR/WPPR Alphabet Swaps of Genesee
Balmer Hump Yard
Department of Defense Flats
Intermission - The One That Got Away
Coos Bay Rail Link
Sugar Beet Central
Canadian National - Full Winter Cowling
Webb Asset in Boise Valley
- Stampede Livery
- Mellow WAMX Liveries
Mo-Pac Eagles
Movie Steam
Hidden Way Hideaway
Great Northern Classic Yard Diesels
Tunnel Magic
Oregon Pacific GMD
GATX Trainers
Bloody Nose Southern Pacific Livery
Montana Rail Link
Golden West
United Grain Elevators
SPSR A Long Way From Home
Columbia Basin Railway
- Patriot
- Perfect Pairing of C-Swoosh
- Livery Kaleidoscope
SP&S Pit-Stop
War Bonnets
Alaska Yard Unit
Rails and Rainbows
Rolling Stock - Someone Has To Pay the Bills
Ode to the Caboose

Product Details

BN ID:	2940152619478
Publisher:	Bob Campbell
Publication date:	02/08/2016
Series:	Long Long Short Long - Railway and Railroad Images
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

The short of it: over-educated, unemployed, and annoying with a camera. Quite possibly a dangerous combination.

The long of it:
I've been snapping pictures for over a quarter-of-a-century on equipment ranging from a Pentax k1000 to Canon SX700hs - but nothing fancier. In fact, after they retired my Kodachrome 64 film, I hung up the 'real cameras' and settled for "digital pocket snappers." It seems ninety percent of the challenge to taking pictures is to remember your camera (would seem obvious, wouldn't it? But look around at the folks with large, fancy cameras - no wonder they claim the phone-based lens will be the death of real photography). So I do my part and pack it almost everywhere.

I was a latecomer to photography, though, so I had time to grow up in many different parts of the country with my formative stage in the South, but junior high and onward in the Pacific Northwest. The last set of initials after my name tacked on by the Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine - making the 'highest degree attained' line of the survey read Doctor of Veterinary Medicine.

I still live in the state of Washington with my lovely wife of over two decades who continues to be an invaluable accomplice. For any hazard I manage to avoid, our son does his best to ensure we'll see an early grave.

Having spent a little time teaching, I've grown to miss a captive audience to inflict my photography upon, so thank you Smashwords for providing me a forum for dispersing my imagery pain to be loosed upon the world.