Post your Train shots!
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Thank you. I highjacked my wife's social media account and learned of it from an area railfan group this morning. Amtrak has a train tracking feature on their website and I was able to use it to get updates. The weather was heavy overcast, but a bit of sun briefly appeared on the locomotive's nose at train time and greatly helped.
Some months ago Amtrak combined the Star and Meteor on the Star's route, so the train is more impressive than it used to be, now with two locomotives and more cars. Amtrak is taking delivery of new locomotives, but I have no idea when this train will receive them.
Hard to believe that we'll someday look wistfully at GE P42s. No wait, I don't think I'll ever do that.
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nikonpup
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Bikerbrent_RIP
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That is one great shot. You could think it was very old until you see the jet contrails in the sky! :encouragement:
Caught today in gloomy overcast on the former SAL main in SC, another very late northbound combined Silver Star/Silver Meteor.
My D5100 has always struggled to fire in poor light when set to continuous shooting mode and this shot was no exception. The first shot was blurry because it had trouble focusing, the second shot was this one and the third shot was too late. If this would have been in better light, I'd have captured perhaps 4 or 5 decent shots as it passed by. The buffer loads up pretty quick no matter what.
Oh well, no big loss and this gives me reason to buy a new camera someday.
My D5100 has always struggled to fire in poor light when set to continuous shooting mode and this shot was no exception. The first shot was blurry because it had trouble focusing, the second shot was this one and the third shot was too late. If this would have been in better light, I'd have captured perhaps 4 or 5 decent shots as it passed by. The buffer loads up pretty quick no matter what.
Oh well, no big loss and this gives me reason to buy a new camera someday.
Thank you. Yes, 238 handles everything it seems, with today's train including ballast, some stacks (20D is the line's primary stack train), baretables and tank cars. 238 makes for a better picture than 18D which is solid graffiti-covered auto racks.
When I arrived, I found the entire foreground littered with dozens of beer cans. I hurriedly gathered up as many as I could before train time and piled them behind me. Someone likes their Bud Light a bit too much.
Norfolk Southern has been borrowing a lot of Union Pacific power lately. Here's this afternoon's 15R at Blythewood, SC, with a trailing Canadian Pacific unit thrown in for good measure. Clouds moved in to darken the shot, but it was nice to be trackside.
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