Hey Gang,
Here’s another shot from my Christmas trip. I had been hoping that this train would show up before sunset, but it wasn’t meant to be. Still, the D600 allowed me to get a pretty decent shot in less than perfect light. I really dig the pastels that winter skies can offer.
As always, C&C more than welcome!
Chris, the light might not have been perfect, but there’s nothing wrong with the image…
Yes, great shot, Chris…I especially like the coal gon spotted for unloading at the dock…
Count my vote too! Really nice shot, nice play of light on the scene.
As to what Carl said, The Coal Gon at the Coal Dock…Surely, that dock is NOT a working facility, now??
Dude,
Only you could make a photograph out of what I could only have made into a ordinary
snapshot!
Love the sky, those colors are always melancholy sweet…
Early morning and early evening are my favorite times because of the light.
And the second tasking for the old coal dock as an antenna tower…kinda a massive tower, but it beats having a piece of railroading from another era torn down.
No, of course not, Sam. It was derelict when I hired out 42 years ago, and probably for a long time before that. And it certainly doesn’t have a rotary dumper for those coal cars!
Ed, no antennas on that relic. The black stuff to the right is still part of the hardware. And that round thing to the left is a searchlight signal, sticking up from the signal bridge immediately behind the coal dock.
Looked harder, and can see the signal bridge just under the coal dock….the hardware threw me a little, didn’t expect safety cages from that era, and at first glance, they look just like the antenna arrays we have here at the Port.
Still, as long as it is more expensive in terms of holding trains and the cost of demolition, the coal tower most likely will outlast us all…maybe a good thing it was so massive!
Chris has the knack of finding the extraordinary in the ordinary place, he “sees” thing a little differently than most of us, which is also a good thing.
Folks should check out his Flicker (sp?) account, I never looked at grain elevators from that point of view, but now, after looking at his work, I can see the different architecture features and how appealing they can be.
Grain elevators as art work, who would have though….
Thanks, guys, as always for the very kind words. [:)]
And speaking of antennae and grain elevators, here’s a shot of an elevator head house along the BNSF Front Range Sub that has found new life as an antenna mast:
