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1943 Army Steam Locomotive
1943 Army Steam Locomotive
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Obsolete (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Olympus C-5050Z
Location: Versailles, Kentucky
Date: Jun 27, 2005
Aperture: f/8.0
ISO: 64
Shutter: 1/40
Galleries: Black and White
Date Uploaded: Jun 28, 2005

Found this beauty at a train museum in Versailles, Kentucky.

It was built in 1943 and was used by the U.S. Army on military bases to switch trains to different tracks. It's called a Saddle Tank Switcher because of the water tanks that straddles the boiler like a saddle.

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Statistics
Place: 280 out of 453
Avg (all users): 4.7774
Avg (commenters): 5.0769
Avg (participants): 4.6646
Avg (non-participants): 4.9160
Views since voting: 806
Views during voting: 363
Votes: 292
Comments: 16
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/05/2005 07:49:35 PM
Nice effect with sepia and grain to bring home them old days.
07/05/2005 05:22:08 PM
I like grain, but I feel this is a little overdone.
07/05/2005 07:35:01 AM
Very well captured and framed photo! I think the sepia goes very well with the challenge category. The photo does seem grainy and pixelated and I felt that it drew away from the clean, hard lines that make the old locomotive an inspiring piece of machinery.
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07/05/2005 02:27:46 AM
what i like here is the grain, nicely presented...
07/04/2005 03:19:16 AM
I like the granular effects on the photos, but here there's to much! :-)
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07/03/2005 08:13:36 AM
Nice use of diffusion and good choice for sepia. It would be better if you could clone or get rid of the modern cars that show up in the photo on the right side and peeking thru the engine. If you had moved more to the left you could have cut them out of the shot.
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07/02/2005 01:39:15 PM
I don't feel the excessive grain helps this otherwise interesting picture. Perhaps a different angle would have eliminated the cars in the BG. Sepia was a good color choice.
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07/01/2005 05:16:40 AM
A little too grainy
06/30/2005 08:44:44 PM
The sepia is good, but I think I would have liked this better without the grain added.
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06/30/2005 04:15:37 PM
too much noise for my taste
06/30/2005 03:23:14 PM
I like the old grainy quality to the picture. I think stepping back and giving the subject a better proportion in the picture would have made it feel a little better.
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06/29/2005 08:31:34 PM
To my eyes, this picture would look much better without so much grain. It looks like you may have added it to make it look old. Some would be nice but it's really grainy.
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06/29/2005 04:26:16 PM
smart use of grains to make this appear old. but the rotation of the photo needs improvement.
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06/29/2005 07:46:43 AM
Can`t you see all the noise in the photo??
06/29/2005 07:20:39 AM
I love this shot!
It's beautiful!
06/29/2005 04:53:49 AM
ooh grain. I will bump up for that alone, as others here will no dowubt slam you. I know the effect/look you are after..close but not quite there.
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