Railroad Photography Websites

[trainfreak]

Hello forum. Does anyone know of any railroad photograph hosting websites? (sites like railpictures.net) If you know of any please do post. Thank you.

[railohio]

What's wrong with using RP.net?

[trainfreak]

I am not saying that anything is wrong with using railpics. Its just im looking at for different sites to possibly post my photos on.

[MikeF]

Try RRPictureArchives.net.

[pcdude9190]

www.railpictures.net

[EricB]

Pcdude, your avatar is located on a site that requires membership to view... every time I open a thread in which you've posted, I get an annoying login prompt from MSN Communities... You might want to find another host...
Eric

[pcdude9190]

ok thanks I don't see that from my end I'll just get rid of it

[arnstg]

I discovered Railpictures.net about 2 months ago and have been spending an extensive amount of time looking at their photos.

I have found some outstanding photos there but I have found a lot of repetitive wedge and front end photos of, to use as an example, BNSF locos that could be taken anywhere. No thought on these is given to where they were shot so when they identify the location, it is meaningless.

When I am done here I am going to try out rrpicturearchives.net

Thanks

[Srnumber9]

This is my favorite:

http://photos.nerail.org/

It's oriented towards New England rail photography, and has a sister site:

http://naphotos.nerail.org/

which is for all of North America

[peirce]

Take a look at the two in my signature, below.

[ICFAN]

Try www.rr-fallenflags.org

[Amtk]

That site's screeners are getting a little too picky for many railfans.

They constantly reject photos for little or no explanation. Then they vaguely phrase the reason as "bad motive", "bad crop," "backlit," etc.,

Then you see similar-framed shots (with different locos, locations) from their favorite photogs.

Thank goodness there are some other sites.

Try submitting some pics to RP.net. Find out how many of the 10-20 you submit will be accepted. I doubt more than 1.

[Alcoman]

You can also try: 1) Webshots 2) Tripod

I have been using both, but I find webshots easier.

http://www.webshots.com/homepage.html

[nolifeCRchaser]

That site's screeners are getting a little too picky for many railfans.

They constantly reject photos for little or no explanation. Then they vaguely phrase the reason as "bad motive", "bad crop," "backlit," etc.,

Then you see similar-framed shots (with different locos, locations) from their favorite photogs.

Thank goodness there are some other sites.

Try submitting some pics to RP.net. Find out how many of the 10-20 you submit will be accepted. I doubt more than 1.

I have to agree with you on this. They rejected quite a few of my pictures for the same stupid reasons. I have quite a few pics that you think would be accepted, such as freight engines running with NJT coaches, or BNSF engines on NYS&W trackage, and some other rarities. BTW, what is "bad motive"? RP.net seems to like pics of BNSF and UP engines out west and NS dash9's in the northeast and just about everything else would be rejected. Also, there are quite a few shots that are not even that great(color, lighting, cropping, and so on) and they are on there anyway. I was surprised when they rejected one of my shots of a BNSF engine and they said it was a "too common roster shot"!

[trainfreak]

Well i have been using rrpicturearchives and that is working out great for me. I also got ten photos up on railpictures.net. I really like rrpicturearchives because you can put any photo you want on there. You can see my Riverline shots here:
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/archiv ... spx?id=825
and my NYSW photos here:
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/archiv ... spx?id=804
I hope yall like.