Such a beautiful picture

[NSrailfan6130]

I found this picture and couldn't believe the clearity of it must be some expenses put into that camera and some good editing to the photo here's a link to the image if it's not clear http://www.railpictures.net/images/d1/8/0/1/9801.1172858400.jpg

[Ericmopar]

Beautiful pic.

[NSrailfan6130]

Wonder what valley this is?

[5292nate]

Oh WOW!

[Toripony]

Gorgeous! It looks like a calendar photo which would mean it was a large-format camera. Something about that picture doesn't look old to my eyes, though... can't say why... maybe just my eyes or screen. Could someone have staged that in recent years around a tourist RR in CO or the Hood River or somewhere?

[NSrailfan6130]

i think it was staged to be a beautiful pic, and that guy probably collects old cars and restores them or buys them restored, and this looks like it probably is in a calendar

[arizonachris]

Last summer, my mom sent me an e mail that had about a dozen photos like this, and including this one. Some look almost like a painting, but some also look like they are from "back-in-the-day". Wish now I still had that e mail. I'll see if I can dig it up. "cars and trains" I think it was called.

[philmoberg]

That a superbly composed and lighted image! The only real giveaway is the grade crossing: back when that automobile was still new, there would have be creosoted crossing planks on either side of the rails. More typically, the planks would have covered the area from tire end to tie end, so the railroad could easily and quickly dig up and replace the track structure. They were still building them that way into the early-'70s, when synthetics took over on heavily used lines, and installations such as this became common on more lightly used lines.

[FourEightFour]

Gorgeous! It looks like a calendar photo which would mean it was a large-format camera. Something about that picture doesn't look old to my eyes, though... can't say why... maybe just my eyes or screen. Could someone have staged that in recent years around a tourist RR in CO or the Hood River or somewhere?

This is the Heber Valley Railroad in Utah. The engine is UP 2-8-0 618.

[NSrailfan6130]

you live in Colorado. How close are you to it??

[DapperDan]

I have an e-mail that has this picture in it. The e-mail is titled "When a Car was a car and a Train was a Train". I just don't know how to go about uploading it.

[NSrailfan6130]

A car was a car, but some trains newer trains are still trains to me, but cars are becoming eco cars and it's horrible