OK, the challenge is now open for entries. This is the place to put them. Remember, you can post up to five "seasonal" photos here. They can be five different shots of the same subject, or up to five different subjects, the choice is yours. Remember, if you start your post with one or two shots, you can always add to or change your post by using the "edit" button. Comments are welcome here as well.

The holiday season doesn't last that long, so the sooner you post, the longer we can enjoy your photos and concept of what the holidays and winter season is all about.

Very slow to date!

I guess I'll start off, then...

First, a Santa Fe warbonnet SD75M grumbles out of the Seneca Ridge tunnel on a grey day in winter.



The photographer thinks back to his childhood when he caught a fast-moving J Class raising spindrifts of snow as it blasted out of the same tunnel on a bright sunlight winter's day.



Later, I captured a Norfolk & Western Y6b 2-8-8-2 Mallet-type engine just about to enter the tunnel.



Crandell

Not train related (well, Union Station is *just* out of sight down the street to the right...) but I shot this last night. Straight off the camera - no post-processing. The Centre Block of Parliament in Ottawa is lit from Dec 2 - January 7.

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It was very cold (-20C with windchill) but I got a few shots and we got our tree at the market.

Merry Christmas!

Andrew

Two shots from last year's holiday.
Last December 11: taken on a snowy platform at Williams, AZ.
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Last Christmas Day:
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And one from several years ago:
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I missed this thread, Here is my contribution.
Charlie

Wolfgang

All of the photos entered so far are great ... the very well done, indeed.

But shaygetz, that one is really telling of the season! I like it! Nicely posed!

thanks for posting those pictures Charlie. they bring back memories of a long snowy day at the KJRR .

Todd

The worst snow storm in 30 years has all but shut down the Kings Port & Western. Time to just hunker in and enjoy a break for the holiday before the work of shoveling out begins!



Merry Christmas!!!

Ralph

Hello---not as Christmassy as some of the other photos,but here's a wintery scene taken in Hamilton Ontario during the early 80's

There's a train in there somewhere

Since I would have to travel a good 100 miles to get a shot in the snow, the best I can do is to go into my archives and revive some shots I took of a Christmas N scale layout I had put together six years ago. Things have been a bit sluggish for me around the holidays lately, and so I've not taken this stuff out of the box since then. I keep saying, "maybe next year...", well, maybe next year I'll do something different...

Hello ---I hope Everyone had a happy and safe Christmas---here's CN Mikado #3377 rolling through a winter wonderland

Here's another shot taken at the water tower