Found this beauty at a train museum in Versailles, Kentucky.
It was built in 1943 and was used by the U.S. Army on military bases to switch trains to different tracks. It's called a Saddle Tank Switcher because of the water tanks that straddles the boiler like a saddle.
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Very well captured and framed photo! I think the sepia goes very well with the challenge category. The photo does seem grainy and pixelated and I felt that it drew away from the clean, hard lines that make the old locomotive an inspiring piece of machinery.
Nice use of diffusion and good choice for sepia. It would be better if you could clone or get rid of the modern cars that show up in the photo on the right side and peeking thru the engine. If you had moved more to the left you could have cut them out of the shot.
I don't feel the excessive grain helps this otherwise interesting picture. Perhaps a different angle would have eliminated the cars in the BG. Sepia was a good color choice.
I like the old grainy quality to the picture. I think stepping back and giving the subject a better proportion in the picture would have made it feel a little better.
To my eyes, this picture would look much better without so much grain. It looks like you may have added it to make it look old. Some would be nice but it's really grainy.
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