Sunday, February 22, 2009
Crosstie Freight Cars
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Just a couple of blocks west of the Square in downtown Loogootee, these freight cars transport one of our local products: crossties. Note the cars are filled almost to the brim. For the Monochrome Maniacs in the world. More b&w's from around the world can be found here.
a blog spot for friends and family.
About Me
- michael bird
- Places: Long Island, New York the first ten years, South Bend, Indiana the next ten years, all over the place, including Germany, Japan, Vietnam, California and Washington the following fifteen years, and ever since then down here in southern Indiana.
Followers
Links
- Bird Family Photos on Picasa
- Birdman Photos
- Lakeview Golf Course
- Lakeview Golf Course News
- Meme: Challenge Walk in the Street
- Meme: Community Photo Challenge
- Meme: Shutterday
- Meme: Thursday Challenge
- Meme: wdyl? Photo Challenge
- Meme: Weekend in b&w
- Meme: Weekend Reflections
- Mike's Photos at Pic Social
- Mike's Photos at picasaweb
- Mike's Photos at webshots
- Photo Answers
- Photo blog: Boxman
- Photo blog: ojorojo
- Photo blog: Photographer in Japan
- Photo blog: steve barru
- Photoblogs
Blog Archive
-
▼
2009
(398)
-
▼
February
(59)
- Rivet girls win semistate
- Big Ben, Loogootee version
- Balloon Bearer
- Fans
- J-lo and a kitchen gathering
- Youngest lady on the court
- More Photos from Boys BB Game
- Girls at the Boys Basketball Game
- Post game consolation...
- 1966 was a very good year...
- Diane and Marty and Miki in Oakland
- One I haven't seen before
- Notes on a Tuesday Morning
- More Regional Photos 2
- More Regional Photos
- Crosstie Freight Cars
- Idle Hoops
- Rivet wins regional
- Kids at the Regional
- Ian, Amy and Jill
- Lamp Shades
- Diane and Project Linus
- Late Afternoon in Downtown Loogootee
- Heron in Pencil
- Girls having fun
- Honeymooners
- Notes on a Tuesday morning
- Golf Course Landscape
- Turbulence
- Portrait of a Young Lady
- Notes on a Sunday Morning
- Rivet Takes Sectional with Last second Three
- Another borrowed book...
- Sectional photos, again...
- Another Sectional Photo
- Remember this?
- More Sectional Photos
- Sectional Photos
- Friday's sunrise with a purple cast
- First Robin of the year
- Trike Racing
- More shots from the sectional
- Off the court at the sectionals
- In the land of the wondrous...
- Biker on St. Mary's Road
- LUNC H SP ECIAL
- Iced Reflections
- Loogootee Sunrise Sunday
- Birds in our backyard
- Notes on a Saturday Morning
- Still Life for a Friday Morning
- From the skillet...
- Big Red Truck
- Reflections on a Snowy Cold Day
- Helpful commentary
- Loogootee's Ice Fall
- Monochrome Monday: Sandman in Sand Truck?
- Birds in a Rose Bush
- Young Girl Reading
-
▼
February
(59)
Reading List 2012
- An-My Le's Small Wars
- Arbus' Diane Arbus
- Baxter's Shadow Play
- Cartier-Bresson's America in Passing
- Cherry's New York
- Daido Moriyama Shinjuku 19XX-20XX
- Dorothea Lange: The Crucial Years
- Duong's Daughters of the River Huong
- Evans' Walker Evans
- Frank's Paris
- Frank's The Americans
- Friedlander's America By Car
- Hamilton's Disobedience
- Henri Cartier-Bresson Collection Sam...
- Isaacson's Steve Jobs
- Lesy's Dreamland
- Masato Seto Binran
- Meister's Picturing New York
- Ondaatje's Divisadero
- Phillips' American Dynasty
- Rathbone's Walker Evans
- Reinhardt's Reflections New York 1976-1980
- Saville's Unraveling Annie
- Simonson's Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
- Stockett's The Help
- Vivian Maier Street Photographer
- Winogrand's Figments From The Real World
- Winogrand's Public Relations
- Winogrand's Women Are Beautiful
15 comments:
Michael, these are wonderful in B&W! I have a fascination for trains. ;-)
Freight look's perfect in b/w.
good mono....
Last time I was on a train was eleven years ago - yet that scene brings back the sound and smell. Good choice, good pics.
We live near by a reapir yard for trains. We can hear a lot of noises from down there - but we can`t see them. I am sure there are some freight cars there to. Cool in monocrome :)
Have a great week :) Greetings from Norway :)
Perfect in b&w!
I've always noted that mechanics were perfect in B&W, it attracts the attention on details.
Well, Michael, if crossties are the wooden bars on the railway, then they need one an other. If one of the both is missing, all the traffic is disrupted.
I've experienced this last friday, going by train on holidays. 1h3O of delay because one rail was deteriorated ! At least, in France.
I love these shots. The freight cars are such a great subject for monochrome.
Even just veiwing virtually conjours up smells and sounds of yesteryear. Even more evocative in monochrome.
A nice crisp shot of a busy yard in winter!
KK
I really like the rythm of the verticals and horizontals in these pictures.
Nice shots....gives a real sense of the place.
Nice ...
Great mono shots!
Nice shot of monochrome,I like it..beaytiful.
Thanks for droping by my monochrome.Have a nice day.
There's so much going on in both these shots, but my favourite is the second, with all its lines and patterns.
Post a Comment