…Just looking at the sizable mountains behind the train, one can wonder how the surveyors got up and over it…perhaps part of it was, through it. And maybe a break in the mountain to allow passage thru along side of a river. And of course, it’s a nice B/W photo.
It’s obviously a good shot. There’s interest in the train, the background, the plows and obviously that salt and pepper smoke/steam plume. It seems a little soft to me, but that’s probably just the scan since it was a film shot. It’s also a little contrasty for my tastes…but it’s probably the same as our differing views on saturation in color shots.
Thats a lot of smoke for an oil burner, or are they burning tires? Now isn’t that a far better looking locomotive than that “royal” hudson thing. I only see one plow.