I would like your help with photos of locomotives with compartment doors open.
Can you suggest a link?
Many thanks,
Hal
Here’s a (not so good) shot of the DRGW Heritage unit with her front door open:
With all due respect, I’ve enhanced your excellent picture.
Here are 15 pages to wade through. This is the best I can do-
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/srchThumbs.aspx?srch=doors&search=Search
Had I wanted a daylighted, overly WB corrected, over-sharpened, grainy shot, I imagine I would have processed it like you did. If you want to edit another photographers work, please be kind enough to ask his permission first.
I processed the image the way I did because that’s the way I felt the scene appeared when I shot it. The original was very very orange due to the sodium vapor lighting used in the yard. When I corrected the White Balance in the RAW conversion, I purposefully left it a little shy of neutral to capture it the way my eye saw it. Ditto with the exposure. My shot may have been a little dark, but that’s the way it was. The shot was several seconds long to capture the image. So I let that show a bit when I processed it. The goal of my photography is to present what I see in a good, but natural way.
I don’t mean to sound cruel or grumpy, but it just irks me to have my photos processed by someone else who wasn’t there and didn’t see what I saw. If I ask for help with processing, that’s one thing, but please don’t adjust any of my photos in the future without my consent.
What is that blue light that appears to be sitting right on the rail? Is it just a lighting artifact? It doesn’t appear to be, but I can’t believe that there would be a blue light just sitting on the rail waiting for the train to squish it to teeny tiny pieces either.
http://www.trains.com/TRC/CS/forums/856559/ShowPost.aspx
I believe it’s blue flag protection, only at night. The thread above has some excellent information about it.
Thank you for the link and the explanation.
So, does that mean that the train is not almost ready to roll over the blue light? It sure looks as though the train is leaving the yard, but that would mean running over the blue light. It seems odd that the train would just be sitting in the location that the picture shows it.
No, she’s got around an hour or so before she departs in that shot. There’s no crew on board at this point. No danger to the blue light!
Sorry, I should have known better. I’ll remove it.
Thanks all for such prompt responses!
Best wishes
Chris - Well said. I feel the same way…
About the blue lights, If oyu are ever in Green River, Wy. at night, and look off the overpass across the yard you see them all over the place. Kinda cool looking really.
You run over that blue light and you put it there, you’re fired.
You run over the blue light and you didn’t put it there, you’re fired and you never work on a railroad ever again.
And if you put the blue light there, forgot about it, and went home and fell asleep?[xx(]
Then stay home and look through the classified…you will need a new job.
Thats if the yardmaster and trainmaster don’t show up before you get home.
The blue light is a protection device to warn other trains not to enter that track, and warn crews not to move that train because someone is working on, under or around the train and cars…its there because the car men are working the air or performing a light duty repair to either a car or the locomotive.
Only the person who placed the blue flag or blue light protection can remove it, that person, or another person from the same craft, but only with the permission of the person who placed it there to begin with.
If you flag a track and then leave, it can cause a lot of headaches for a lot of people…not the least of which someone has to now visualy inspect the entire train to make sure no one is working under or on it.