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Photo Contest 2001 Winners

Photo Contest
2001 Winners

The first nycsubway.org photo contest is over! The winners are below. It was very difficult to choose a winner in each category due to the many good submissions (over 700 were received!). I chose a winner in each of the original five categories plus a special mention for best night photograph. (To be honest, many of the runners up are also night photographs. Some good effort by the photographers there!) The winners in each category will get to select their prize in the order of the categories presented below. By the way, all the photos were resized to a width of around 640 pixels so that the size of the image was not a factor in the judging.

Thanks to all who participated!

Best NYC Subway Photo

Winner! Photo by BMdoobieW, Parkside Avenue on the Brighton Line, 4/12/2001. It was very hard to choose a winner. I had to balance out the great submissions with the rule that a photographer can only win one prize. So my final selection for winner was this photo of the Brighton Line on a dreary spring morning. I think it struck me because of the dreary feeling over the city in the past few months, but even through all that, there's still the "lights on the front of the train"!

Runners-Up


(image 23921) (48k, 640x418)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Fulton
Location: Rockaway Boulevard
Route: A
Car: R44 (St. Louis Car Co., 1971-73) 5286
Photo by: Chao-Hwa Chen
Date: 11/24/1998
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 5407


(image 23922) (45k, 640x427)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: BMT Canarsie Line
Location: Livonia Avenue
Car: Locomotive R47 63
Photo by: Robert Marrero
Date: 2001
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 4416


(image 23923) (91k, 640x937)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Location: Coney Island/Stillwell Avenue
Car: R40 (St. Louis Car, 1968)
Photo by: Michael Pompili
Date: 10/22/2001
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 5817


(image 23924) (52k, 640x480)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: BMT Canarsie Line
Location: Rockaway Parkway
Route: L
Car: R143 8120
Photo by: Trevor Logan
Date: 12/6/2001
Viewed (this week/total): 3 / 5092


(image 23925) (56k, 640x480)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT White Plains Road Line
Location: Simpson Street
Car: R33 9136
Photo by: Trevor Logan
Date: 11/15/2001
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 5490


(image 23926) (45k, 640x480)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT Flushing Line
Location: 33rd Street/Rawson Street
Car: R36-WF
Photo by: Trevor Logan
Date: 2001
Viewed (this week/total): 6 / 5179

Best NYC Metro Area Bus Photo

Winner! Photo by Kevin KayBee Barsky. Photo of bus #6353, an Orion VI Hybrid, at Manhattanville Depot in August 2001. Special credit for a good photo taken in a place most of us can't visit and under extremely bad lighting conditions! (You may need to adjust the brightness or "gamma" settings on your monitor to see the night/indoor photos properly.)

Runners-Up


(image 23929) (161k, 820x620)
Country: United States
City: Dallas, TX
System: Trinity Railway Express
Location: Fort Worth ITC
Photo by: Bob Vogel
Date: 6/16/2008
Notes: F59PHI 570 at Fort Worth
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 731


(image 23930) (142k, 820x620)
Country: United States
City: Dallas, TX
System: Trinity Railway Express
Location: Fort Worth ITC
Photo by: Bob Vogel
Date: 6/16/2008
Notes: F59PH 567 at Fort Worth
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 767


(image 23931) (34k, 640x364)
Photo by: Robert Marrero
Notes: 1985 RTS T8J204 #3959 gets a "lift" on Northern Blvd, June, 2001. One of those Right Place Right Time shots!
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 3244


(image 23932) (54k, 640x480)
Photo by: Trevor Logan
Notes: Photo by Trevor Logan, an MCI D4500 Cruiser for New York Bus Service in the Bronx, photo taken on 23rd Street, Manhattan, 11/19/2001. Another great night shot!
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 2884


(image 23933) (49k, 640x423)
Photo by: Kevin Barsky
Notes: Photo by Kevin KayBee Barsky, NJT Flxible #3062 at Hoboken Fest 2001. Another Right Place Right Time shot as this bus gets towed away.
Viewed (this week/total): 3 / 2965


(image 23934) (37k, 640x432)
Notes: Photo by worktrain, NYCTA Bus East NY Garage, Fall 1998. I don't know what's going on with this bus- special credit for the behind the scenes view.
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 3236

Best NYC-Area Rail Transit Photo

Winner! Photo by Trevor Logan, taken 11/19/2001, of Newark City Subway's new LRVs (#110) at Bloomfield Avenue. I'm a sucker for that fall foliage!

Runners-Up


(image 23936) (50k, 640x480)
Country: United States
City: Jersey City, NJ
System: Hudson Bergen Light Rail
Location: Harborside
Car: NJT-HBLR LRV (Kinki-Sharyo, 1998-99) 2020
Photo by: Clayton Parker
Date: 2001
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 3501


(image 23937) (39k, 640x428)
Photo by: Drtchkn
Notes: Photo by Drtchkn, of a tunnel shot at Grand Central Terminal in 1999. Nice unusual vantage point.
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 3033


(image 23938) (38k, 640x426)
Country: United States
City: Jersey City, NJ
System: Hudson Bergen Light Rail
Location: Garfield Avenue
Car: NJT-HBLR LRV (Kinki-Sharyo, 1998-99)
Photo by: Harry Pinsker
Date: 1/7/2001
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 5515


(image 23939) (67k, 640x408)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: Long Island Rail Road
Line: LIRR Main Line
Location: Jamaica
Car: LIRR Budd M1/M3 Series
Photo by: MHoward
Date: 2/1/2001
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 4972


(image 23940) (27k, 640x430)
Country: United States
City: Jersey City, NJ
System: Hudson Bergen Light Rail
Location: Marin Boulevard
Car: NJT-HBLR LRV (Kinki-Sharyo, 1998-99) 2021
Photo by: worktrain
Date: 2/2000
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 4020


(image 23941) (45k, 640x449)
Country: United States
City: Bayonne, NJ
System: Hudson Bergen Light Rail
Location: East 34th Street
Car: NJT-HBLR LRV (Kinki-Sharyo, 1998-99) 2012
Photo by: Michael Pompili
Date: 10/3/2001
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 4455

Best Non-NYC Metro Area Rail Transit Photo

Winner! Photo by Chao-Hwa Chen, of Acela Express Trainset #14 (Power Cars 2010-2015), at Martin Airport MARC Station at Chase, MD on 10/20/01. Again with the fall foliage, and I don't know how fast that train was going, but extra credit for the sharp focus!

Runners-Up


(image 23943) (48k, 640x435)
Country: United States
City: Washington, D.C.
System: Washington Metro (WMATA)
Line: WMATA Red Line
Location: Grosvenor-Strathmore
Photo by: Oren H.
Date: 4/10/2000
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 7147


(image 23944) (47k, 640x418)
Photo by: Chao-Hwa Chen
Notes: Photo by Chao-Hwa Chen, another Acela shot, this time "Acela Salutes America": Acela Express Trainset #8 (Power Cars 2014-2019) at BWI Station on 9/18/01.
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 2784


(image 23945) (30k, 640x480)
Country: United States
City: Chicago, IL
System: Chicago Transit Authority
Line: CTA Green (Lake/South Side)
Location: Ashland
Photo by: Eric Victorson
Date: 10/20/2001
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 3473


(image 23946) (51k, 640x465)
Photo by: Mike Brotzman
Notes: Photo by Jersey Mike, Chicago Union station, late Aug. 2000. Love that slanting sunlight.
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 3889


(image 23947) (68k, 640x480)
Country: United States
City: Los Angeles, CA
System: Los Angeles County MTA
Line: Metro Blue Line
Location: Pico
Car: P850/P865 (Nippon Sharyo, 1989-1994) 107
Photo by: Salaam Allah
Date: 8/1/2001
Viewed (this week/total): 3 / 3741


(image 23948) (16k, 640x214)
Country: United States
City: Boston, MA
System: MBTA
Line: MBTA Red Line
Location: Longfellow Bridge
Photo by: Daniel DeAmicis
Date: 10/20/2001
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 3967

Best Non-NYC Metro Area Bus Photo

Winner! Photo by BusProwler, bus 9910, a Miami-Dade Transit 1999 NABI 40-LFW is parked outside a trailer park in Liberty City assisting in evacuating a flooded trailer park following the infamous No Name Storm of October 2000.

Runners-Up


(image 23950) (25k, 640x363)
Photo by: BusProwler
Notes: Photo by BusProwler, Miami-Dade Transit's Bus 8006, a 1988 Flxible Metro, sits at Central Division at the end of its tripper duty as the sun sets on January 18th, 2001.
Viewed (this week/total): 8 / 4886


(image 23951) (67k, 640x480)
Photo by: Trevor Logan
Notes: Photo by Trevor Logan, a NABI Model 436 Articulated for the Maryland MTA in Baltimore, Eutaw Street in Old Town, 8/16/2001.
Viewed (this week/total): 3 / 2896


(image 23952) (134k, 640x946)
Photo by: Lexcie
Notes: Photo by Lexcie, Davis Square, Somerville, MA, November 11, 2001, MBTA No.88 Bus.
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 3097


(image 23953) (46k, 640x480)
Photo by: Salaam Allah
Notes: Photo by Salaam Allah, Los Angeles MTA bus #268 outside his house, 12/1/2001.
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 5874


(image 23954) (50k, 640x480)
Photo by: Trevor Logan
Notes: Photo by Trevor Logan, SEPTA Neoplan AN-460 Transliner Articulated at the Wissahickon Transfer Center, 6/18/2001.
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 2801


(image 23955) (56k, 640x480)
Photo by: Trevor Logan
Notes: Photo by Trevor Logan, New Flyer Model D40LF for Connecticut Transit, Atlantic Avenue, Stamford, CT, 11/7/2001.
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 3046

Special Category: Best Night Photo

Winner! As you can tell, I liked night photos. After seeing all of them, I decided to create a special prize for night photos. You see many other nice ones in the categories above but here are a few more that stood out. The winner is this photo by Salaam Allah, of the Long Beach (Los Angeles MTA) Blue Line at Flower and Washington Street.

Runners-Up


(image 23957) (37k, 640x436)
Photo by: Lexcie
Notes: Photo by Lexcie, Amtrak engine at Toledo, Ohio, Summer 2001.
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 2386


(image 23958) (24k, 640x424)
Country: United States
City: Boston, MA
System: MBTA
Line: MBTA Green (C)
Location: Beacon & Hawes
Photo by: Bob Pickering
Date: 2/2000
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 2876


(image 23959) (60k, 640x480)
Country: United States
City: Los Angeles, CA
System: Los Angeles County MTA
Line: Metro Blue Line
Location: Pico
Photo by: Salaam Allah
Date: 8/1/2001
Viewed (this week/total): 4 / 3552


(image 23960) (50k, 640x480)
Country: United States
System: NJ Transit (or Predecessor)
Line: NJT North Jersey Coast Line
Location: Woodbridge
Car: NJT F40PH-2CAT 4125
Photo by: Trevor Logan
Date: 11/19/2001
Viewed (this week/total): 4 / 5600

   
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