Last Saturday we visited the Jackson Street Roundhouse Transportation museum. Inside the pole barn were a number of engines in the process of being restored. This is an old steam locomotive 2153.
The further away on the grounds from the museum, we found more cool junk to photo-shoot. This colorful SOO LINE box car was sitting in the weeds amongst some rusty barrels. Actually, we really weren't supposed to be here with crossing over the railroad tracks. But with our gray hair and mature appearance, (think Sean Connery), the museum currators and train engineers left us alone.
However, one engineer came up to us to talk about photography in general. We ended up on a short train ride which was a hoot. This gray hair is golden! If we had been in our youth, I am sure they would have yelled at us and kicked us off the grounds.
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Wow, lucky you! Maybe I should get a full head of gray hair! Love the colors in these shots.
ReplyDeleteWoo-hoo! How fun to explore an old roundhouse! Gorgeous shots to commemorate the visit too.
ReplyDeleteyep great shots , i like old trains ; we have a train museum not far from Besançon in Mulhouse:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.citedutrain.com/fr/train/
You can have a look to their web site !
excellent work, great texture. every age has it's own benefits
ReplyDeletesuperbe, avec une GRANDE GRANDE préférence pour la première. on peut presque toucher la rouille, vraiment tu es le maitre avec le HDR
ReplyDeletesuperb, with a BIG BIG preference for the former. you can almost touch the rust, really you are the master with HDR
Very cool! Love how you took these. I'm sort of getting excited about getting up to Floyd where birds become a secondary subject to things like old barns and scenes like this.
ReplyDeleteToo cool! I am envious of the opportunity! Not so much the gray hair, I am not ready to show mine yet!
ReplyDeleteI really do like old junk like this. I think that is a place I could've spend hours exploring.
ReplyDeleteIf they had known how you really are, the gray hair wouldn't have helped!HA That's some nice "rusty crap" you're showing us today DL.
ReplyDeleteYou inspired me to post that alley photo this week.
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Hey, do you also wear a kilt? ;-) I love both these rusty photos but the first one is amazing.
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed reliving your rebelious streak! Great rusty shots.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing the things you can do with a camera in one hand and a few gray hairs.
ReplyDeleteFirst photo, especially: Splendiforous!
ReplyDeleteI love the first photo. Magnificent!
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