Thanks King. It's one of my favorites. I call it "Locomotive Breath". I never submitted it here. I submited a different shot of this same train taken at another time and submitted it in the "Night" theme, but it never got featured. I did submit this shot to the "Vintage Processing" theme on Vazaar, but it never got featured.

@klimin a s This was shot with a D200 DSLR...Is that what you mean?

@CaptureThis: I mean the "picture-taking" (cinematography, the filming of the old historical movie)...

Oh I see. Sorry. No it wasn't a movie shoot. It was shot in a "touristy", Artist Colony town named New Hope in Pennsylvania. This is the New Hope Ivy Land RR that runs little excursions through the countryside for perhaps an hour. They also have wine and cheese runs, and I think a lunch and special occasion runs maybe dinner runs too, not too sure about that. Anyway there is a modern micro-brewery restaurant right there to the left, just out of the frame where I was having lunch. The train was just back from one run and getting water, coal, and whatnot for their next run. It started belching all the steam and smoke so I ran out of the restaurant and jumped down onto the ground to grab this shot before the steam and smoke let up.

I am and always have been a big fan of these old steam engines.

I'm glad this made it...when I first rated it I didn't have time to make the comment that I wanted to, and then forgot to go back.
I'm glad cinematography is mentioned here, because this awesome photo immediately reminded me of one of the first moving films ever made: Arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat, L' by the Lumiere Brothers (1895). It was a one-minute, one-shot film (not much more than a photograph, really) of a train coming into a station, but it actually sent many of the people in the theater (most of whom had never seen a moving picture before) screaming and running out of the building because they thought a train was coming through the wall!
Anyway, very nice photo; well deserved feature.

@eggplant...Yes I remember that movie! Thanks for the compliment. I was going for that kind of look.

Hooray! Congratulations, Laurie.

Thanks King. Of the few photos that I've had featured, I like this one the most and would have been disappointed if it didn't make the cut so I am very happy.

Yeah, but, Laurie, all of your featured images are fabulous. I'm not naming favorites.

Thanks...you are too kind. :-)

Laurie, I knew that this train was the NH&Ivyland the minute I saw it. It is a fantastic shot. I've spent plenty of time over the last 35 years chasing brush fires on these tracks due to that train but I love hearing that steam whistle blow! The first trestle you go over leaving town was featured in an early silent movie of the Keystone Cops / Sarah Heartburn variety.

I was looking at a photobook about Alfred Stieglitz yesterday that had a shot that reminded me of this.

Ah, here it is:
http://www.communityzoe.com/articles/train.jpg

Laurie, Flatline,
I'm a big Stieglitz fan and I think that's the shot I may have been thinking about with my first comment.

I ran across this photo on your user page and really like it. Fantastic shot.

orangganjil...Thanks, that's very sweet of you to say.