The Little Engine That Could, a photo from New Hampshire, Northeast

Photographer's Note

I took this picture on the top of Mount Washington. The train in front of us is so called "Cog Rail" Train. A cog rail is a railway designed to operate on steep slopes and having a locomotive with a center cogwheel that engages with a cogged center rail to provide traction. Began its operation on 1869, Mount Washington Cog Railway is the first mountain-climbing cog railway.

I was told that this train is the original model of the famous children’s bed time story The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper.

There are a number of different ways to get to the top of Mount Washington. In this picture, you can see that the in addition to the train, there is paved drive road to climb the Mount Washington. Sure enough, there are a few trails for hikers to climb to this highest mountain in Northeastern of U.S.

The engine is a steam engine. A closer look at the train is provided in the WS

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Galmeida (12559) 2005-09-20 18:55

Hi Wes,
Possible is my last critique for today but this way you took in your angle of view is really fantastic and seems like a virtual time machine in a way of view. The first impression is similar when I was child and young like a gift of birth date or christmas. The impression likes like a little board with a miniature of a traffic steam machine board. Your capture is really a rail for people but your view and capture are splendid and fantastic to minimize this situation and create a living dream for a aniversary or other gift to a child. A virtual living world!!!

Best to you for your insight, perception and sensibility.
Fernando

robiuk (10807) 2005-09-20 19:36

Hi Wes,
Amazing - it looks like a model train!
What is the blue area in the upper left corner?
Robi

PLD_images (7149) 2005-09-20 20:40

Hi Wes,

At first I also tought it was a picture of a model train, so good play on dimentions. Good idea to leave a car in the shot, it helps to put the train in perspective. I also enjoy the terrain around the area, it really has a montain fell to it.

leonorkuhn (16237) 2005-09-20 22:14

Hi Wes,
Very interesting, I also thought that is a toy train. Excellent POV, colours, sharpness. Well done.
Leonor

singuanti (15250) 2005-09-20 22:15

Hi Wes. I took one of those cog trains from Colorado Springs to the top of Pikes Peak. That's too funny about the little train that could. From the looks of it you didn't take the train up. I bet that would be fun albeit slow. I like the road and car in the background to represent progress. Good colors via the polarizer as well. Nice shot Wes!

Gregtom (7169) 2005-09-21 1:46

Hello, Wes!
Very interesting view and an interesting place. This train looks very funny and jazzy! There is a museum of a trains like this one in Poland in a small town called Wenecja (Venice). It was okay to put a car into the cadre, everybody can imagine the size of this train now. Well seen!
regards,
Greg

Amirsun (2122) 2005-09-21 2:15

Hi Dear Wes!
Very nice shot! Great composition using horizantal lines made with rail and road. Also very god POV. I enjoy it, tanks for posting.
(I add a little note to my my last photo about the poem attached to the photo)
Regards
Amir

cessy (13647) 2005-09-21 3:49

very nice picture
with perfect rule of 3rd composition and nice colors
the train is so colorful

jrj (34843) 2005-09-21 5:44

Interesting shot of this train in the middle of nowhere. Nice use of the large format to set the train in the right perspective. Well done wes

jmdaoudal (82) 2005-09-21 6:07

This is a very interesting steam machine, I knew electric ones in our mountaints and am very pleased to discover this charming and ancient one.
Very well done photograph.
Jean Michel

Mafo (1339) 2005-09-21 8:18

Hello Wes!
Interesting photo of colorful train, good composition and sharpnes!
Regards

Graal (103040) 2005-09-21 11:55

Hi Wes,
interesting view, unusual place and train. Good colours and sharpness. I like it. Good work.
Rgs,Aleksander

feather (51130) 2005-09-21 11:58

I looked at the WS too and it is a strange looking train that doesn't look capable of mountain climbing. Interesting to see 2 modes of transport and the vehicle and tiny people add scale.
Kath

papagolf21 (152605) 2005-09-21 14:48

Bonsoir Wes,
J'ai beaucoup apprécié la note qui nous fait mieux comprendre le fonctionnement de ce petit train (et la photo présentée en atelier : curieuse forme de locomotive).
L'environnement semble désertique et ces rails "suspendus " sont très étonnants.
Une image bien faite et très intéressante.
Amitiés.
Philippe

Stepan (27210) 2005-09-21 15:29

A strange view about a strange machine within a strange frame...
The red car is quite unexpected but gives originality.
The toy-train in this inhospitable area is interesting.
Well composed.
Stéphane

Tue (91604) 2005-09-21 15:39

Hej Wes,
Very nice little train in this rough landscape, I like the paterns in the fields created by the rocks. You placed the train well in the picture. Good work.
Hilsner,
Lars

eco (112) 2005-09-21 16:32

Hi Wes

I like this perspective

fantastic sharpness and details
good colors and view, perfect work
best regards, rafal

maphoto (8082) 2005-09-21 22:14

Hi Wes, nice picture, I thought at first that it was a model, but with the car and the workshop everything become obvious. Good that you have left the trees in the top left, it gives perspective, well seen.

PJE (20758) 2005-09-22 1:17

I nteresting Wes I have never heard about that kind of track and train setup. Well this train is very unique as you are saying here. Nice open area too. The van riding our of the frame brings a good persepctive view to this train too. Good photo Wes!

Emile (20352) 2005-09-22 1:41

Hi Wes.
This looks like one of the gift i received when i was a child, a miniature train toy. The picture in WS is also very good. Very good composition. Excellents colors and sharpness.
Well done.

kent_s (1911) 2005-09-22 2:46

Hi Wes
When I pulled this one up I first thought it was a model train. Very great wide angle shot
Well done
Hälsningar
Kent

bantonbuju (51815) 2005-09-22 4:17

hi wes, excellent image - i like the way you cropped for concentrating only on the hills and the road; colourful train is a bonus; excellent picture, i really like it;
tc! jerzy

supereira (9576) 2005-09-22 6:02

Great shot.I like the contrast between the train and the erath.Good colors,light and sharpness.I like the composition and prespective.Funny train.Good job!

jhm (211734) 2005-09-22 7:20

Hi Wes,
These little train and certainly the smoke its the real eyes catcher, also the depth together with the blue/green colour tones, gives a nice composition. The small people give a excellent the scale between the great panorama view.
Very well done!
John.

sarju (5324) 2005-09-22 8:34

Hi Wes
wow ... it almost looked like a toy to me in the first glance ... wow I am still amazed
I like your surreal composition
tfs ... sarju
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Fixfocus (9385) 2005-09-22 12:28

Hi Wes,
A fine composition with this colorful train in the grayish/greene landscape.The included people add scale and context,good placement of the train in the frame.
Greetings,
hermann

nwoehnl (122) 2005-09-22 12:32

Hi Wes. A beautiful and crisply detailed photo of the well-known Cog Railway - when in the area I did not ride it but some months ago I saw a TV documentary about it that was pretty interesting. The rugged textures of the hillside are well shown, and it's good to have the auto road with the red car in the frame too for context and scale.

elihesamian (26149) 2005-09-22 12:48

"Cog Rail" !

Great POV,really well captured,great note that is interesting for me,I enjoy it,
Nice details and colors and great composition you managed here,the line of the road there and line of the rail here but this one with a curve that is nice elements in the composition,nicely worked,Wes,Thanks for sharing,
Best
M

Kenny10pin (19301) 2005-09-23 11:02

great shot of the train in the open fields, well done

carper (96) 2005-09-23 13:27

very nice one Wes,
I like the lines in the shot, the line with the details made a very nice composition, very good job I like it,
gr. Jaap

Jeppe (18654) 2005-09-23 16:39

A fine and special little train - thanks for the ws photo as well - at this photo does it look like a bit of a toysize one - thanks Wes for sharing and giving us the story.

ChristianS (2997) 2005-09-24 10:28

Hi Wes, this is a cute shot and a very nice perspective; everything in this picture seems to be conveyed in small scale, the train, the railway, the car and the road look like toys. I like the colourful train, it breaks with the predominant green-grey landscape. Well seen and done.

Regards, Christian

sergio1 (12152) 2005-10-05 12:30

Hola Wes,
Buena captura, me encata la fotografía desde un lugar elevado ya que se parecia la amplitud del terreno. Encima el tren queda genial,
saludos
Sergio

RGatward (20108) 2005-11-07 3:29

I remember visiting this place in the winter in 1980, when it wasn't running, I never knew it was the source of that children's book, I'd always assumed it was something similar in Wales. Excellent PoV, and well timed, cathing it just so in the frame.

Photo Information

Copyright: Wes Wang (weswang) (18247)
Genre: Lugares
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-08-26
Categories: Transportes
Camera: Nikon D70, Nikkor 18-70 DX, 67mm Circular Polarizer
Exposición: f/10.0, 1/320 segundos
More Photo Info: view
Versión de la foto: Versión original, Workshop
Diario de viaje: Back to New England
Tema(s): Photos with book titles, TRAINS II, Steam Railways [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2005-09-20 17:19