This week’s CFFC topic is Anything to do with trains and railroads. There are so many things that you can photograph regarding trains, railroads, train depots, etc. Big trains, vintage trains, toy trains, miniature railroads all count. It will be fun to see what you all come up with to delight me. Be creative and mostly have a lot of fun.
This challenge both new and archived photos are allowed. The main purpose of this challenge is to create community and get to know each other through photography.
Featured Bloggers
I had a marvelous response from all of you on last week’s Anything to do with jets and planes challenge. I want to say thank you to each of you. Here are the featured bloggers for this week. Their posts really grabbed my attention. They are all worthy of a second or third look.
Current Challenge Series – to do …
- Anything to do with cars and trucks
- Anything to do with boats
- Anything to do with planes and jets
- Anything to do with trains and railroads
- Anything to do with bikes, trikes or motorcycles
Next Challenge Topics – All About Buildings …
- Special Request: Wilting, dead or aging flowers and leaves
- All about buildings: Old buildings, barns, sheds, houses
- All about buildings: Modern homes and apartments
- All about buildings: Commercial buildings or store fronts
- All about buildings: Colorful buildings
- All about buildings: Doors and windows
Please check out my Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge to check out more of what this challenge is about.
My entry for this week
This first photo is of men working on the railroad tracks in Canby, Oregon. There are two sets of tracks. The workers on the green flatbed is on one set of tracks and the yellow loader on the other set. I’m not sure what they were doing, but in the lower middle you can see a huge round metal disk-like thing they were lowering. If you notice the yellow loader has two sets of tires. The rubber tires are wider than rail tracks and the metal wheels fit onto the rail tracks themselves.
Aurora, Oregon.
Garibaldi, Oregon.
Canby, Oregon.
A mural of Canby’s Depot when it was used. That Depot is now a small train museum.
I’ve put together a list of challenges and their hosts. So if you know a challenge host, please direct them to my blog. Feel free to contact me anytime. I hope everyone will be able to use my lists.
- Qi (energy) hugs,
Cee
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Here’s my contribution – one old, one new
https://travelswithali.com/2020/08/03/trains-and-railways/
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Always love getting to use my train shots – but this time, focused on model trains. Model trains on steroids: https://maximizingluxurytravel.com/2020/07/31/cees-fun-foto-challenge-anything-to-do-with-trains/
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I’m a bit late, but I couldn’t resist this theme, Cee.
And I love the old train and mural of Canby – must be fascinating to visit the museum.
I actually found an old, but new to me, train line last week. So we have some glimpses of it here: https://travelwithintent.com/2020/08/01/bristol-harbour-railway/
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Love the black steam engine! Here’s mine – https://myheart2heart.blog/2020/07/31/chugging-through-the-hills/
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One of my favourite topics as you well know. You have some great shots there and I always like seeing the murals you have in Canby.
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Thanks Vanda 😀
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and here’s the link to those journeys I forgot to include in my previous comment… https://beyondthewindowbox.wordpress.com/2020/07/29/catching-a-train/?theme_preview=true&iframe=true&frame-nonce=ce87e74f81
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Thanks for the prompt to relive past train journeys!
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Train journeys are fun 😀
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I especially love that shot of 8104 from Garibaldi – lovely going away take! Here’s a couple of very old shots with some history… https://2e0mca.wordpress.com/2020/07/29/cees-fun-foto-challenge-anything-to-do-with-trains-and-railroads/
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Trains are a fascinating topic!
I’ve gone a bit whimsy with this.
https://junkboattravels.blogspot.com/2020/07/anything-to-do-with-trains-and-railroads.html
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Thank you so much for the feature Cee – much appreciated. We have just come back from a train trip so I won’t have to dig far to find some railway pictures. Love the variety of trains you have this week but particularly the one with the red doors and stairs. Someone had a bit of fun with that.
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That one with the red and stairs is an old steam engine that still runs for tourists on the beach. 😀
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I’ve never heard of a train on the beach. That would be fun.
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Sacramento has a great train museum. Check it out!
https://bulldogtravels.com/2016/01/11/sacramento-train-museum-in-old-sacramento-train-nerds-rejoice/
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Great subject. Thank you for coming up with this. I was so taken with railcar graffiti that I’m on a quest to find more to photograph and also to do some research on the history of this travelling art show. https://lifeinmyyears.com/2020/07/28/cees-fun-foto-challenge-anything-to-do-with-trains-and-railroads/
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Old or new, trains always have great appeal!
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They really do hae appeal 😀
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I like the big black one with the red door.
https://linsdoodles.wordpress.com/2020/07/28/cffc-anything-to-do-with-trains-and-railroads/
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I love train pics. Yours are great!
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Thanks Dawn 😀
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The old steam engines are exceptional.
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They really are. This one still run for tourists. 😀
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That third photo is definitely my fave. I invite everyone to visit my link, as I’ve got a BONUS classic song sung by Gordon Lightfoot about building Canada’s railroad: https://gwhphotos.wordpress.com/2020/07/28/cffc-anything-to-do-with-trains-and-railroads/
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Here is another contribution to this challenge of an old short video posted on my old blog: https://chava61.wordpress.com/2020/07/28/cffc-anything-to-do-with-trains-railroads/
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That first photo of them working on the rails was interesting. Lots of neat looking trains!
Thanks so much for the mention! 🙂
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My pleasure Barbara 😀
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Here’s my contribution from my new blog: https://thisandthatthenextpart.wordpress.com/2020/07/28/cffc-anything-to-do-with-trains-railroads/
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