Keystone Div. 2

The November category was Photographs: Model Railroad and Prototype, we had eleven entries. Many great entries, but three made the top in the popular vote:

1st place went to Joe Yakubisin for his submission of his prototype photo of this Conrail GP 38-2 #8233, that he took at Mingo Junction, Ohio in October 1993. Joe noted that this photo was “enlarged by Clark”

1st place: Conrail GP 38-2 #8233, by Joe Yakubisin

2nd place went to Neal Schorr for his entry of a model photo from his O scale layout, which depicts a PRR N5 cabin car bringing up the rear of an eastbound freight headed to East Altoona yard, as it passes Rose (RO) Tower.

2nd place: PRR N5 cabin at RO Tower, by Neal Schorr

3rd place went to Richard Reichenbach for his prototype photo of New York Central S-2 #9677, which he took in 1968 at Croton-Harmon, NY. He has also shared this image on RR Picture Archives.

3rd place: New York Central S-2 #9677, by Richard Reichenbach

Eight additional entries were submitted for the November contest.

Steve Ross used a “tilt-shift” effect from a website to blur the auxiliary tender and helper diesels in his original prototype photo of NKP Berkshire 765 as it was about to enter Spruce Creek Tunnel on May 26, 2013.

Steve Ross's NKP Berkshire 765 photo

Kevin Squire brought this image of a European electric locomotive (known as the “Krokodil”) pulling a German passenger train across a viaduct in N scale.