Good morning, everyone!
As promised in my MoPac question thread, here are the rail related images to my recent outing to southeastern Colorado. A couple of notes before I present everything. First off, this wasn’t strictly a railroad photography outing. I was mostly out working on my project documenting the grain elevators of eastern Colorado. Here’s a quick example of the type of work that I was mostly focusing on:
If you’re interested in seeing more of my grain elevator shots, you can check them out here.
Of course, grain elevators and railroading often go together, so I do have some rail related images. Most of these will be a bit different though, too. I only photographed one train all day long. Everything else was stuff seen along the quiet MoPac line. Since there were no trains to shoot, I concentrated on shooting some of the details of the line itself. With that intro aside, I’ll open with a sunrise shot at Hugo, CO. This is on the Limon Sub, and these rails are active enough to be shiny and reflect some of the (very brief!) sunrise light. There is very little color tweaking and no saturation boosting in this shot. These are the colors that were present for a couple of minutes during this sunrise:
Next up is the only train I photographed all day – a short coal train on the Limon Sub at the “skeleton” elevator at Sorrent