I thought you might all enjoy this. Click on the picture for an enlarged view and more info!
missing the cup of coffee on the control stand…
Feet up on the ‘desk’ - just watchin’ the world pass on by . . . nice work if you can get it ! [swg]
I dunno - a ‘panned’ effect at a mere 15 MPH just doesn’t seem right somehow . . . [%-)] But I’m sure it took some effort to get it - so OK ! [tup]
Nice lighting of the cab interior surfaces, too, now that I look a little more closely. How’d you do that, without ‘washing out’ the exterior ? Flash, I suspect - but how did you correlate the flash’s light output with the ambient exterior light to get it just right - not too bright, not too dark ?
It was a regular flash inside, and fairly low light outside, so it balanced out nicely.
I’ve pretty well given up on taking pictures of locomotives and am concentrating on MOW employees. They help keeping the railroad run, and are worthy of recognition.
I quite agree - but MOW personnel and equipment are even rarer to find and see than trains in daytime . . . and then I have to find a ‘legal’ place to take the photo from . . . if I’ve even remembered to have my camera along ‘just in case’ . . . [sigh]
- Paul North.
Great picture.[tup]
I have always found it interesting that you can run a 10,000 ton train from such seemingly simple control interfaces. I guess it is a perspective thing.
I haven’t been inside a loco since the early sixties. Then it was various high short hood Geep’s and new fangled gadgets like radios and digital speedometers hadn’t yet arrived in the cab’s.
I enjoyed the trip down memory lane.
Bruce
Stop the presses. He’s not running 15, he’s not running at all. The generator field switch is down and the reverser doesn’t have the handle in it, it’s centered without a handle, so he’s stopped.
Is this your simulator?
Cool shot Max, gotta say I’m jealous!
ValleyX:
According to the comments on the picture’s site it’s being pushed.
Nice shot. The interior and exterior lighting balance nicely. Well done.
Push pull.
Is that a self portrait?
I don’t see any dirt, peeling paint or built up layers of nicotine. The last time I saw an SD-45, it was an ex-SP unit rebuilt into one of their SD40R’s. It was sitting at M-19A in Chicago a few weeks back and it had been forever before that since I’d seen one.
What type of camera did you use? I assume the blur effect of the scenery was due to a longer-exposed shudder due to the low light, which makes it quite funny for such seeming “speed blur” at only 15 MPH.
and the can of snuff or pack of smokes…
If you have the snuff, you HAVE to have the spit cup.
It’s a great shot, but way too clean to be representative of RRing.
thats what the empty water bottles are for…