What do you do with a big, heavy, slow zoom lens and it's getting dark? If you're me, you use the wrong tool for the job. You know, the screwdriver to open the paint can type of person. That's me. So I took "Big Jack", a nearly-4# zoom lens that needs lots of light, plunked it on the tripod and bagged this high-priority manifest in Blue Hour, at a full 400mm, and at ISO 6400. I had staked out a shot for this guy with great afternoon light, but daylight ran out before he arrived. Oh well...
Another high priority shipment in 1907. First harvest of the year I guess. They did not have spell check back then.
December 12, 2018 Iowa Northern South Job At Palo, IANS SD60E trailing on MPRNP by Fairfax, IACSX 7864 second out on MCBPR @ Fairfax, IACSX 9002 second out on a westbound “Q” train.CSX 377 third out on same “Q” train at Fairfax, IA. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Taken 40 years ago in Knoxville, TN is this low-rez Christmas slide scan. The message on the gondola caught my attention and matched with the snow, made a nice composition. I next threw a rock at the tank car to set the pigeons aloft and clicked the shutter.
The Santa Fe "Cyrus K. Holliday" and two wood coaches on public display at the Santa Fe depot in Fort Worth, Texas sometime in the 1950s. From John Karges photo collection.
Wow. Look at the positive camber in those car frames. Someone has really cranked the truss rods up tight.
Yes, it's out of focus, I flubbed the manual focus up before train time and didn't recheck it. CP Holiday Train passes Lower Des Lacs Reservoir, just south of Kenmare, ND:
The CP Christmas train is very beautiful, Hemi. And your composition with the reflection is too. Doug
Rail workers posing in front of the old freight depot in Burnet, Texas in 1940. A new passenger depot built by the Austin Steam Train Association for the Hill Country Flyer.
I believe it ran the streets of Sapulpa, Oklahoma before they pulled up the tracks. Here is an older model. Who was Sapulpa? https://www.cityofsapulpa.net/229/About-Sapulpa
