They’re all good, but that 1st one just has to be a Picture Of The Week and/ or People’s Choice award winner. It could have been used in the ‘‘Back to the Future’’ movies - what a great contrast/ dichotomy between the modes and eras ! The comments below the photo pretty much echo my other thoughts. I’m also surprised how narrow the R-O-W is there, and the lack of fencing, etc. between the tracks and the lanes. I’ll bet that replacing ties there is a real exercise in working in tight quarters.
The 2nd one really shows how long the 3751 is - more than I would have expected - and in a different setting, that’s for sure.
Thanks again so much for sharing the fruits of your planning, foresight, and good fortune. [bow]
I had been planning on both the freeway shot and the skyline shot for over a year. I didn’t quite hit the skyline shot the way I intended, but hope for another chance at it next time 3751 runs (hopefully sooner than another year). It needs to be wider to include the river and more of the train, I think.
The freeway shot proved to me the old rule is true, which is “line up the shot you want most and don’t try anything else first… once you get that shot, you can zoom, or switch how the camera focus, or whatever else you want to change, but don’t do anything before it.”
I have a really bad habit of trying to get multiple shots, which often ends up with getting no shot that I like.
All your images here are very well composed, Charles, and I really have enjoyed them…thanks. However, the first is exceptional in terms of its overall appeal in my opinion. You should be very happy and proud of that one.
Nice work ( plan your work, and work your plan!) [tup][tup]
My favorite is the first shot in the middle of the Freeway. i do n’t know how far the track is in the median like that, but if it goes very far, I’ll bet they have to coordinate it with the HyPo’s[4:-)]
Wrong time of day and the traffic jam could reach Denver![swg]
How do they keep the black smoke from rolling? ( a la 844 or 3985) Is it just when you took your shots,
Great shots, Charles. I especially love the guy poking his head prairie dog style out of the sun roof of the SUV next to the engine in the first shot. That was definitely a story to be told around the water cooler on Monday.
Sure, it would have been nice to get a big plume of smoke coming out of the stack, but when you have an accomplished crew running the locomotive clean, that’s hard to get (unless they do it on purpose).
I sent this image on to some modelling buddies, and one of my comments was that everyone should appreciate that the engine is being fired properly…except for the glitch left back 100 yards. What would the motorists be thinking seeing this beautiful artefact belching smoke in a city where air quality is already tenuous on good days? No, my money would pay to see this gal in all her glory showing modern onlookers that the guys who built such beasts, and who eventually operated them, knew what they were doing.
A great photo, and I sure am happy to have seen it. [8D]
A properly fired steam engine does not put out a lot of smoke…in the day Firemen would be criticized for smokey runs. In today’s world of steam…smoke is made for the railfans.