The article didn't mention Bridge cameras, which is what I have; a very well-made and pleasure-to-use Fujifilm Finepix S-1. It's not a DSLR and doesn't pretend to be one, but for my skill level it's perfect. I could never justify spending thousands on cameras, lenses and other gear and my fixed income wouldn't allow it anyway. I've always been grateful to the GoPro folks; for 349 dollars (Military PX price) I got the Hero 5 Black and can fully indulge my enjoyment of Time-Lapse, something my otherwise great Bridge camera had a limited capacity for: Couldn't really handle the shorter intervals like 1/2 second between shots when making a Drive-Lapse ; had a tendency to drop frames.

UPrinting.com They made some very nice 22 x 28 posters from a couple of my restored LOC photos taken in the 1940's with 4x5 negatives of the Speed Graphic variety. I had saved them as 11 x14 Tif's of 300-plus ppi resolution. UPrinting did a great job for a reasonable price (less than 20 dollars each).

Remember the "riot control" they used in the movie Soylent Green from 1973? Giant enclosed dump trucks with a huge bucket-loader on the front that just scooped up dozens of people at a time and after a hatch slid open on top, just dumped them in and lowered the bucket back down in front for another load.

I sure wish I had your eye. What a great picture that is (the one you titled "Shadows)!

I read several pages devoted to this post before coming back to page 1 and posting this. I worked on the old Chicago & Northwestern out of the Proviso Yards for 3 years back in the early 70's. I always had a camera with me and took lots and lots of pictures, but every last one of them was off to the side of the tracks. I don't see why anyone would get in between the rails. One of my favorite setups for a shot of a train passing at speed was to set up the tripod close to the ground and get an oblique view looking upwards, I'd click the shutter when the viewfinder was full and usually ended up with a great-looking photo. Since I was well off to the side, I was in no danger and the train crew wasn't alarmed by my presence there. At least one of the posters talked about how long it takes a train moving at speed to stop, and he wasn't exaggerating. When some idiot appears in the middle of the tracks, all the engineer can do is dynamite the brakes, i.e. throw the lever into emergency so that all the air brakes on every car and all the locomotives in the consist are set instantaneously. Momentum caused by the tremendous weight of the train will make it simply slide along the rails with every brake locked for up to a mile before it finally comes to a halt. Weight and speed determines how far it will actually slide, but they all do, and the idiot will be mowed down regardless.

I noticed they credited Shorpy.com for the source images; what a great site that is, as I'm sure many of the folks who visit UHH already know.

I can't say why you're having this particular loading problem, but if you're using the Chrome browser you can uninstall and then download & reinstall it easily. As soon as you log in with your Google password all your data such as bookmarks, extensions, etc. will be right back where they were before you uninstalled Chrome. Disregard all of this if you have a different browser since things could work differently and I wouldn't want you to lose stuff.

14. This morning she backed the car out of the garage for me, which I didn't appreciate much since I'd backed it in last night.

That quote is from "The Maltese Falcon".

You know, I never really looked at it that way; what you say is actually quite valid. I was a brakeman (many years ago) on the Galena division of the now-defunct (and part of Union Pacific) Chicago & Northwestern Railroad. I worked a lot of coal trains that weighed in at 10,000 tons; that's twenty MILLION pounds, which would probably take a dozen passenger trains to equal, and I'm pretty sure was damned hard on the tracks...

or this either, I think...

Some primal termite chomped on wood
and tasted it, and found it good;
and that is why your cousin May
fell through the parlor floor today.

As regards riding:

I have to say, it's quite a sensation riding in that locomotive 8 feet off the ground doing 80 miles an hour at times. Of course there's also the slow orders over bad track where you're doing 10 miles an hour for 20 miles, or hanging off the end of a half-mile-long cut of cars looking in pitch dark for the siding to set the one you're riding out on and all you've got is a red flare to signal the hogger when to slow down and when to stop, all in the middle of a night so cold that if you need to take a leak you've got to put pepper on your pecker and catch it when it comes out to sneeze. Ah, the good old days...

Just wondering, having seen your avatar; are you a train buff, or by any chance a present or former trainman? I ask because as a youngster back in the early 70's I was a brakeman for 3 1/2 years on the old Chicago & Northwestern, going back and forth between the Proviso yards and Clinton, Iowa. I clearly remember the iron drawbridge we crossed the Mississippi River on; even in '74 it was over a hundred years old. I still have my old switch key, the pebble grain brass now worn smooth with age.

Believe it or not, I didn't; but I can now picture you turning up the volume in advance and getting a totally unexpected blast of sound (you can't call that "music") when the screen saver came on. Not funny, and I certainly didn't intend it to be. I simply hadn't quite got the hang of sync'ing two different tracks into one, and the first one actually was kind of hard to hear at normal volume. My abject apologies, sir.