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Group Info Group Founded 6 Years ago Statistics 1,048 Members
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Fallen members

Official Members

Traci A. Dunham aka. ~labrat-78 (1960-2009)

Traci was a rare breed and a good influence in our community. She was one of what is still a small number of female railroad workers. She helped dissolve the common gender bias theory that working on the railroad is strictly a man's job. She worked as a Conductor for the Kansas City Southern (KCS) Railroad. When not at work, she was a railfan. Always positive and always willing to educate fellow railfans with advice and knowledge about railroad operations. When Traci lost her battle with cancer, our community lost one of its most outgoing and diverse members. While she may no longer be here, her influence on #The-Railfan-Nation last forever.

Tribute Art by *AnkaAI3
As an appropriate tribute to Traci *AnkaAI3 drew this GE Evolution series diesel locomotive that dawns the KCS paint scheme but instead of traditional KCS lettering Traci's name is on the longhood. An appropriate tribute to an outstanding and sorely missed member of the community.

TRFN deviation of the week (2/26/2012-3/3/2012)

:bulletred: Each winner is disqualified from being nominated for the following 52 weeks. This is to ensure that we get diversity in winners instead of the same winner.
:bulletred: The deviation of the week can't be a policy violation. Our staff works hard to ensure this never happens but there may be a rare occasion where one will slip past us so, in the unlikely event policy violation is ever spotted here you are encouraged to report it to group admins via group note. We wanna clean representation and obviously if a stolen piece that wasn't detected makes it into the poll that does taint things.

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Group Info

This is a club by railfans for railfans. We welcome members from all over the world and from all different branches of the artistic community here on DA.

Our Mission Statement:
1. Serve as a liaison between the railroad/railfan community and the rest of DeviantArt
2. Promote the artists within the railfan community on DeviantArt, and showcase the best of their rail-related art. This includes photography, traditonal art, vector art, model railroading, ect.
3. Provide the community with a place to learn techniques, methods, styles, and ideas from other rail deviants.
Group
Founded 6 Years ago
Feb 20, 2006

Location
Global

Group Focus
Common Interest

1,048 Members
1,036 Watchers
51,512 Pageviews
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Welcome to #The-Railfan-Nation, deviantART's official railfan group! Here you can post any train or railway related art ranging from traditional, digital, or photography. We do not accept screen caps! Before submitting we suggest you read our Submission rules and About Gallery Folders Page
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Our Chatroom

#Darailyard: our room for railfans, the discussions in here are about anything and everything having to do with trains. Sometimes we talk about our real lives, too... if we have real lives. ;) No actually we talk about real life a lot, its just part of being a community. :D
EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY: We are now making it a standard practice to decline wrong folder submissions.

The reason why is so many users have sent us wrong folder submissions, even after Neil (aka. ~acela) announced in a recent blog that it needs stop. In the past we have been able to just move wrong folder submissions to another folder. However, recently it has become such a problem our group is averaging over a hundred wrong folder submissions a week. That is about fourteen or more wrong folder submissions everyday. The problem has grown too big to enforce the old policy on. Therefore this is something we have to do to extinguish this problem.

I advise everybody to submit to the right folders!

Signed
Co-Founder
Joseph W. Johns

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Journal Created By Contributor ~ZCochrane
Thanks From #The-Railfan-Nation Team
NOTICE TO ALL MEMBERS:

Please submit your deviations to the correct gallery.

The problem with our TRFN FEATURED folder being full has now been fixed, and that is where you should submit most of your shots.

If the focus of your shot is a station, signal, or other structure, or something associated with those, submit to "Railroad Structures".

If your work is of a hobby-like nature, such as model trains or model stations, submit to "Hobby Shop".

If the work is focusing on a non-employee person (whether you, your friends, or people standing in as models), submit to "Railfan Portraits".

If your work is of a funny, accidental, or people-being-stupid around trains nature, submit to "Railroad Idiocy".

If the work focuses exclusively on track (and there are no platforms, bridges, or tunnels--those go in Railroad Structures), submit to "Track Only".

If the work focuses on vehicles that you use to go railfanning with, usually cars but sometimes other trains as well (please note that you're using the train as such in the work's description), submit to "Railfan Rides".

If the work focuses on the gear that you use to go railfanning, or on collectable stuff related to railroads (also known as "railroadiana"), submit to "Railfan Gear".

If the work focuses on graffiti/spray paint art (usually on railcars but also on structures sometimes), submit to "Graffiti".

DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, SUBMIT YOUR WORK TO THE FOLLOWING FOLDERS:

The Railfan Nation Rule Book And Submission
TRFN ANNOUNCEMENTS
2011 Railfan Nation Photo Challenge (The contest is now closed and defunct, since the mod taking care of it has been awol for quite some time now)
Featured (This was our first folder for regular submissions. It's not completely full but the other spaces are for the mods to shunt overflow from other folders into it, or to shunt misplaced submissions.)
TRFN FEATURED 2011-2012 (This was our second folder for regular submissions. Same rule from "Featured" applies here.)

If you submit to the correct folder, it makes things go A LOT smoother, for both you and the mods.

If, however, submissions continue to be misplaced on a regular basis (the occasional mistake or wrong click is OK), then we will have to adopt a "Reject: Wrong Folder; Please Re-submit" policy.

Highball!,

~acela
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:iconthemightyquinn:
*TheMightyQuinn May 8, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
Chicago rail gridlock and improvements featured in New York Times article: [link]
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~unluckyfellow Apr 14, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
Thank you very much for feauturing my Work! =)

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Visit my Gallery: [link]

Take a look at this wonderful article if you like male beauty in art: [link]
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~wolfnut2985 Apr 13, 2012  Student Digital Artist
I have a photo of a Amtrak dome car and I would like to submit it to the group but don't know what folder I should submit it to. I read the folder submission guidelines thing but it did not clear it up any further.

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that should go in TRFN featured folder

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~wolfnut2985 Apr 14, 2012  Student Digital Artist
ok. Thanks.

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