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Engine # 3985
Engine # 3985
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Challenge: Planes, Trains and Automobiles (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Canon EOS-D60
Location: Houston, TX
Date: Jun 9, 2004
Aperture: f5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Photojournalism
Date Uploaded: Jun 10, 2004

 Union Pacific Challenger No. 3985 was designed by Union Pacific and built in 1943 by the American Locomotive Company. It is one of 105 Challengers built for Union Pacific between 1936 and 1943 and is the only operating engine of its class in the world today--the largest and most powerful operating steam locomotive.

No. 3985 last operated in "regular" train service in 1957. It was retired in 1962 and stored in the roundhouse in Cheyenne, Wyoming, until 1975, when it was placed on display near the Cheyenne depot. A group of Union Pacific employees volunteered their services to restore the locomotive to running condition in 1981.


Statistics
Place: 23 out of 159
Avg (all users): 6.2143
Avg (commenters): 7.0667
Avg (participants): 6.0851
Avg (non-participants): 6.3784
Views since voting: 1041
Votes: 168
Comments: 17
Favorites: 1 (view)

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AuthorThread
 06/21/2004 01:51:29 PM
6.2something isn't bad I guess, nor is 23rd ... but I still think this is under-rated. Good work James
 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/20/2004 08:01:02 PM
Fence on left takes away from an otherwise nice photo.
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 06/20/2004 05:56:11 PM
Ah, proper grown-up light - I like this. Brings out the almost scuptural engineering of the beast. Wonderfully well done technically. Cropping bother a touch - why not simply glory in the definition of the metal, and plonk the old thing full frame? The angle of view you've chosen, and the complementary angles of the front of the train and the top would place the front of the engine right on the happy thirds line, and also might rid the shot of the slight feeling that you've cropped to hide something at the back of it. That visible background frame left, for me, adds nothing here - let it impose itself on us! But great work - great detail, great tonality, and great subject - real feeling of power. 8
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 06/19/2004 06:15:53 AM
Nice lighting, really makes it stand out and look extremely 3D (perfect sharpness helped too). One of the best train shots so far.
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 06/17/2004 03:31:24 PM
beautiful picture
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 06/17/2004 03:40:18 AM
This is a great photo! The sharpness and contrast are amazing and the background looks surreal. Incredible! This better be in the Top 20.
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 06/16/2004 02:02:48 PM
Nice colors together.
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 06/16/2004 07:57:26 AM
You have used the light to your advantage in showing off the contours of this engine..it really gives the image bite..my only advice would be to have rearranged the image (if possible) so that you could crop the left hand side to get rid of the background which is showing signs of overprocessing..otherwise excellent.
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 06/16/2004 03:36:14 AM
The filling in of the sky is a bit overdone.
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 06/15/2004 04:14:51 PM
The sky never looked so... indecisive! Good shot.
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 06/15/2004 04:04:04 PM
love the colour of the sky.
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 06/14/2004 06:48:55 PM
nice shot
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 06/14/2004 01:56:31 PM
Very nice. It certainly portrays the power of the engine
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 06/14/2004 07:43:16 AM
Like the subject, but the background looks too processed to me, the sky artificially saturated.
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 06/14/2004 02:05:40 AM
sky looks very fake
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 06/14/2004 01:40:19 AM
great capture, this shot looks almost mystical. 10
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 06/14/2004 01:23:00 AM
Powerful shot man, I like it
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