What's more irritating than anything is that I got the perfect shot lined up (the first one on top, the long shot) as he was sitting there idling waiting for the previous train to clear the signal - then he started moving at just barely an idle .. and I was taking video all the way .. and I video'd every one of those planes all the way past. And hit the stop button. And started recording. I missed the whole thing. Auuuuuggggggh! Can you say "Charlie Brown"?
Max, I did exactly the same thing years ago filming the Royal Hudson departing N. Vancouver and putting on a great show of steam and start up acceleration. I was so mad..............
Yea .. I did the same thing with the 4449 at the Washington Centennial in 1989 - you see feet running up the hill, puffing and panting, the camera comes up, a plume of smoke shows over the bridge - then it blanks out and then you see feet running back down the hill, leaping in the car, saying "I think I got a great shot, but let's try to catch up to it again" as my wife was driving at the time. Life's funny stuff, isn't it? .
Man that is a real nice set of photos. It.d be nice to even see a set of rails around here! (sigh) Jim
I bless my luck every day - from my office window I can see and hear the BNSF mainline. We leave the windows open during the summer and really miss the train sounds in the winter. .
I do. And video is overrated in many cases. I mostly wanted to catch the slow idle of the locomotives - I swear there is a lot of similarity between the sound my old U28C (LokSound) makes, and the sound that shiny new one makes. Video transfers our attention to the camera and we miss the actual action, we wind up looking at the locomotive on the computer screen instead of real life! .
