Look at you, doing night shots! I see a lot of centerflow-style 2-bays in service, less of the 2-bay with ribbed sides like what you captured. I see tons of ribbed side 3-bay grain hoppers, though. A lot of frac sand travels west in 2-bay centerflow cars. Those trains are heavy, and almost inadequately powered for the hill.
I used to do a lot more with my old 35mm SLR with tripod and remote trip. FUN!! Got a real nice bunch of 261 as it sat here overnight in 98. This camera I have now does ok, but yours does wonderful work, Hemi!
My camera is just a Canon Rebel T5. No great shakes here. It has its limitations beyond ISO 800. Basically unusable grainy/noisy images. I'm learning to work with that I have, and get good with it. I have a long way to go, though, especially composition-wise. With an eastbound far in the distance and a starry night to capture, this intermediate signal at Des Lacs, ND blinks from flashing yellow to high green. The structure on the right was once a mighty water tower from the GN steam era. The tank stood atop until about 2012 or so. Most everything in this photo has changed since 2012. The elevator is gone, the tank is gone, searchlight signals are gone, the siding is gone and replaced by 2 main track and a new concrete bridge parallels the old. Steven Welch photo, 2011: http://www.railpictures.net/photo/376541/
Hmmmm. Mine is also a T5. You are giving me a bit of courage here, that I might be able to do some interesting things....
All you need is a tripod and a remote shutter release. Sometimes, the self-timer will function in lieu of a shutter release. Regardless of what you use, you want to ensue the camera is as vibration-free as possible when actuating the shutter. I bumped the tripod in a late night exposure at a frigid control point this weekend, ruining an otherwise nice DPU time exposure. I didn't think I bumped it much, but the full-resolution view showed everything was out of focus from the jarring. I'm using the kit lens a lot, too. I did buy a 55-250mm zoom and got a 50mm prime lens for Christmas, but other than that, all my gear is low-buck. No pro-level gear here. The DPU shot got ruined, but the head-end knockdown seemed to be ok, except for the overexposed switch heaters. Control Point 10.6 is 10.6 miles west of the Amtrak Station, milepost zero of the BNSF Glasgow Subdivision. A WB knocks down the signals at CP 10.6.
I do have a decent tripod. Somewhere around here, an old manual shutter release. (For my old Minolta XG7 SLR. Which may or may not be adaptable?) I have two lenses. One an 18-55, the other a 75-300mm. Only problem right now is my schedule, which I work at night...
I wish. But no RR action nearby at this time of night. And not enough time to drive to some and back again.
Well, it took me only 14 Months to confirm it. I passed through Camden, SC today and got this shot of the bay. It's kind of neat that above the operator's bay there's steel hardware in the brick that was no doubt there for the train order signal, which is long gone. The canopy is original. Amtrak did some much-needed maintenance on it and things look great. While there today, I struck up a conversation with a local man there who said he was near 80 Years Old. He said his father liked trains, so often took the boys to the depot in the '50s. The man said the SAL's many passenger trains kept the place busy with baggage wagons everywhere, especially during the annual Carolina Cup horse race which saw the crème de la crème of equestrian society come and go.
I have no idea until you try it, but if it doesn't, you can get a remote release from Amazon for about $10. https://www.amazon.com/Shutter-Rele...7357716&sr=8-8&keywords=camera+remote+release I would love to see this area done in a time exposure...
Consist of the day at MP26.4x, Sumner Wa!! BNSF SB mixed consist rolling thru the rain. See anything unusual?
Ex-BHP Billiton units 4302 & 4308, now EMDX 3006 & 3009, a long way from home and looking mighty tired!!
