Rail Scene 2019

by Bob Campbell

Overview

Vancouver Center in Southwest Washington provides many of the nearly two hundred high resolution pictures contained in this collection of railroading and railways in the year 2019; but there's much more. While a bit BNSF (Burlington Northern Santa Fe) heavy, there's still lots of Union Pacific (UP), PNWR, CBRW, and other registries and liveries filling out this book. Everything from the various rail lines caught on digital film in the Pacific Northwest, to cool multi-unit maneuvers in Connell over in Eastern Washington, plus the Grain Train coming out of the breadbasket of Washington and the Columbia Basin Railroad (CBRW) making a new freight handling drop-and-go on BNSF Class I rail. Plus lingering Geeps (GP series of train engines) and our usual power identification and confusion chapters.
In fact, everywhere you look in this book is a train (mostly). Along with beloved rants and wails you've come to expect in the Long - Long - Short . Long - series of books. Although, like all our books, this collection easily stands on its own (Excuse me? Leaning against the wall wheezing is *still* standing in my book.)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163448135
Publisher:	Bob Campbell
Publication date:	01/20/2020
Series:	Long Long Short Long - Railway and Railroad Images
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	15 MB
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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.