Rpics is a great site with their own standards and they have every right to do as they please. Personally, I could care less about "composition rules" and place far more value on an individual's own depiction of a given situation on the RR. #5 is in the shade b/c if you were standing on that side of the tracks when #5 rolled by that day, it would be in the shade! Does everybody only see trains in the sun?

Drew, I am truly thankful that someone was there not only to record scenes on the RR (scenes that some of us were either too young to remember or flat out weren't alive yet!) but also is willing to share with the rest of us! Keep them coming regardless of whether they are perfect shots, level, underexposed, whatever...