Bob Campbell

Trains and More 2024 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Trains and More 2024 completes a decade of capturing the living history that is the American railroad system with emphasis on the Pacific Northwest, and particularly the state of Washington.

While this book is heavy on Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF pumpkin orange), we've still been able to catch some passing colors and liveries from other rail lines from the Union Pacific (UP) to that growing pile of Canadian craft (meaning not just CN and CP, but KCS and FXE... because "Kansas City Southern" and "FerroMex" mean "Canadian Pacific" now.) Along with Norfolk Southern (NS), a CSX or two, and a healthy helping of CBRW (Columbia Basin Railroad) to complete the picture.

As an added bonus, if you're trapped in the city or other large metropolitan area and have forgotten what the world looks like without concrete, asphalt, and steel, rest assured our book spends an inordinate amount of time out in the rolling sage steppes (Inland Desert) of Washington with multiple trips to Connell, along with splashes of Eltopia, Mesa, and Spokane. Not to mention, while we think of Pasco and the Tri-Cities along our bend of the Columbia River as being a big city, it's hard to avoid all the agricultural landscapes and desolate sandy hills that surround our town (and make up the interior sections of any major highway interchange. Heck, we have dead bodies (human!) periodically discovered *inside* the clover leafs of Interstate 182 in significant states of decomposition. Not because of dense tree cover (there is none around here. Sage brush is typically the tallest natural "trees" we sport), but because they're made wide and sprawling as land isn't really at a premium.)

So come along with us as we complete a decade of training, railroad watching - and pictures of it all - in this collection of images perfect for wiling away an hour or three at the office trying to look busy, at the work bench sure you'll come up with the perfect model railroad weathering scheme or track side debris, or just enjoying a few moments staring at trains. We hope you enjoy your virtual training trip.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bob Campbell
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798230503804
• Artikelnr.: 72712894

Autorenporträt

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.