Railroad Scene 2016

by Bob Campbell

Overview

A long time coming, that's for sure.
Of course, they say the best things come to those who wait.
They also say all sorts of other stuff that's not necessarily true, either.
The good news is this time I hope you'll find at least one or two gems in the pile. Because there's a big pile of pictures packed in here. And like all of the modern Long - Long - Short . Long - series of books, I try to include locomotive identification, full registry numbers of units pictured, and possibly more details about any given picture than one could pretend to care about.
While this book is heavy on the BNSF Vancouver Center of operations in Southwest Washington (the state - any WA mentioned is on the West Coast for me), I also try to give enough exposure to other roads and liveries to give a realistic impression of what life was like "way back in 2016." (Laugh if you will, but people around me tire of hearing what it was like when you actually *dialed* a phone on a round dial and listened to the little clicks as it wound back around. Let alone the ridicule I get when I say, "We need to find a phone booth so we can look it up in the phonebook.")
This collection of pictures and mild prose covers every from:
the seasonal changes (rain, cold rain, and warm rain) in and around Washington as it pertains to steel rails...
Livery and power changes witnessed on the tracks...
Support, maintenance, and rail side activity...
Action on the main line...
Cool and odd (and lucky) finds involving all things railroad...
Views of various Western states and train activity found there...
Specific virtual trips around and through Washington and Oregon...
... to a cool jaunt to all my favorite train spotting locations on the west side of Vancouver (USA - not Canada. The "other" Vancouver is a couple hundred miles to the north of us, so, please, don't be confused when you don't find a single "Eh?" in the entire book.)
So notch it up to Run-8, snag your copy, and start your journey.
(This version of the book includes secret bonus sections and other fun discoveries awaiting to be found.)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163461004
Publisher:	Bob Campbell
Publication date:	02/02/2020
Series:	Long Long Short Long - Railway and Railroad Images
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	14 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.