Fireworks Show

These photos were some of the first I ever took with my little Kodak digital camera. I didn't learn till later that there was a fireworks setting on the camera. I just used a low-light setting.

These were taken at Duck Creek on Grand Lake near Ketchum Oklahoma, on July 4th, 2009. They always put on a good show! Someday I'd like to see them from a boat on the lake. I shot these from a dock on the lake and took a lot more photos than the ones here, but posted only the best or most unusual ones!

The B & O Railroad Museum

I've been hesitant to post these pics because i don't have all of the ones I took downloaded. I've lost some of them and need time to find them to post.

I took these in October, 2009 at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland with my little Kodak digital camera. Enjoy!

At The Strasburg Railroad

I took these pictures when we stopped by the Strasburg Railroad Depot in Strasburg, PA, in October 2009, with my little Kodak digital camera. These were some of the first pictures I took using this camera. Some turned out pretty good, but others were mediocre!

Reading & Northern's 425

I took the photo's of this locomotive, coming into Jim Thorpe, PA on October 9th, 2010. It was a beautiful day there and was perfect for taking pictures. This train runs once every weekend during the fall foliage festivals from Port Clinton To Jim Thorpe.

This is a beautiful 4-6-2 blue painted Loco with white trim. I photographed it backing to the turntable, which was around the edge of a mountain a half mile away. When I got to the turn table they already had it turned around so I only got to see them back it off. Because of parking issues, I couldn't drive back and forth from the station to the turn table and had to walk. They didn't move it slowly and once it passed the station, they pored the coal to it and it was gone around the mountain in seconds.

After turning it around, they serviced it, then backed it back down to the station where they filled the tender with water. That's where they let spectator's climb into the cab for a look. This train had about a 3-4 hour stopover and during that time, they ran a couple of fall foliage viewing trains, pulled by diesels, in and out of the station. At about 3 PM they pulled this train back up to the station, with a diesel loco. They then backed the 425 up to and hooked to the diesel, loaded up the train and took off, returning to Port Clinton.

Trolleys!

At the Old Threshers Reunion in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, they run these rail trolley's on a large loop around the campground, to ferry campers up to the show and back. They've all been restored to their glorious splendor and give you a look into the past when these trolley were used in cities in the early to mid 1900's.

My favorite is the yellow No.1779 with vintage seating and brass handrails and hardware!

These pictures are from the sparks show at the Old Threshers Reunion in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa during Labor Day weekend 2009. The would hook these old steam tractors up to a belted load and get them chugging up to full steam, then shovel saw dust into the fire box to produce the sparks out of the smoke stack.


The pictures of the tractors in the parade are only an example of the ones they used at night and may not be the actual tractors they used. What looks like a solid flame was how the camera took the shots. It was really more of only an accumulation of the sparks that made it look solid. Sometime in the future I want to go back and re-photograph this and play with my camera to see if I can get better pictures. I was going to go this year but was short of funds for the trip!

The Railroad Museum in Golden Colorado!

To wrap up all the pictures of my trip to Denver, here are the last of the pictures taken at the Railroad Museum in Golden Colorado! This is the third time I've been there. It is a nice place to visit if you are into railroading. Lots of nice vintage locomotives and equipment on display, a small roundhouse and manually operated turntable, a reference and research library, an outdoor garden layout, an indoor layout and displays downstairs in the main building and a nice gift shop.

The last five black and white photos are from pictures hanging inside the museum!