This past weekend Oct 19-21, 2007 I had the chance to be a part of a chartered photo special which featured Soo Line #1003 Wisconsin’s own steam locomotive. The photo special was put on by the Historic Transporation Preservation Inc with the webpage http://www.steamspecials.com/
The event started Friday evening in Brandon, WI with a night photo shoot. Then Saturday #1003 ran from Fairwater to Brandon down to Horicon and west to Fox Lake, Beaver Dam.
Then Sunday #1003 ran from Randolph to Horicon and the event ended in Rubicon with the train heading back to Hartford.
With clear skies and temps in the 70’s it was a great weekend to chase a steam engine through the beautiful fall colors. Some people even brought out their antique cars and tractors for us to pose with the locomotive. It was a great weekend and a great chance to see #1003 strut her stuff.
If anyone is interested in photo specials check out http://www.steamspecials.com/ and sign up to receive emails of upcoming events.
Night Photo Session at Brandon, WI
Happy Halloween from the crew of Soo Line #1003
Steaming off from Fairwater, WI
Reflections of #1003 at Fairwater, WI
#1003 puts on a show at Brandon Road west of Brandon, WI
#1003 gets a roll by from the track inspector with his velocipede at Brandon, WI
I caught the Friday afternoon northbound ferry
trip at Brandon, when they performed the photo run-by. Didn’t have the
camera, though. We’re working on a house for an employee of the Brandon
feed mill, and he didn’t know about any of this until the train made
it’s entrance into town.[banghead]
I believe it is a 1940 Chevy. This guy apparently got a call from someone that the #1003 was out and running. He went and got his car and found us. We talked to him. The car is pretty much all original except for the paint just 60,000 miles on the odometer. It was a beauty.
Thanks for the nice comments about the photos. Alot of things came together last weekend, the weather, the #1003 and fall colors. I just stood there and pushed the shutter button.
Last weekend also was the first time I shot the entire weekend using the .RAW format on my digital camera. I didn’t notice much difference except the size of the files. Most publications ask for .RAW format for publication. According to some people I have talked with .RAW offers more flexibility when it comes to adjusting the photo. All I did with the ones above was some sharpening and that was it.
Yet again you’ve delivered a fantastic set of images. It always thrills me when I come to Trains.com and find that you’ve posted some shots from a steam outing. Well done, and thanks for sharing!
I use to shoot almost exclusively auto/Jpeg etc…when I first started digital almost 4yrs ago…but in the past two years…I shoot in .RAW format as well as all of my settings on manual. Makes you a better photographer in the long run!
I did notice that using .RAW did change the way I shoot. With the larger files my camera could only do 5 shot bursts instead of 9 with JPEG. So I had to choose my shots more wisely. I still like to use aperture priority setting, but I think I will stay with .RAW from now on.
