Post your Train shots!
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I am stumped! Never seen anything like that before. I suspect that you're right and that it's custom made/cobbled together low HP locomotive for moving work trains around. Kinda looks like a railroad Winnebago.
AxeMan - Rick S.
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I am stumped! Never seen anything like that before. I suspect that you're right and that it's custom made/cobbled together low HP locomotive for moving work trains around. Kinda looks like a railroad Winnebago.
I’m stumped too. It’s in UP color/ paint scheme but can’t find anything on the web about it. Doesn’t help the sign on the fence is blocking the road numbers. Go back and get the numbers on it lol I’m sure we can find out about it.
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Yeah, but does it pick up the dry cleaning and walk the dog?
Yeah, but does it pick up the dry cleaning and walk the dog?
Looks like another trainload of Bakken crude from North Dakota. Loadings are exceeding 1 Million Barrels/Day now and the railroads are getting a lot of it. Crude oil is making up for recent losses in coal loadings resulting from new environmental regulations, but Bakken crude is highly volatile, which is stoking the fears of more regulators who are starting to ban it from certain rail routes. It's tough to run a railroad -- it's sometimes hard to find success.
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nikonpup
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YES, I KNOW IT IS A DAM. IT HAS RAILWAY HISTORY. Tumwater Dam
That's one of the challenges of rail photography -- you just never know how fast the train will be rolling. To be ready, I usually shoot at nothing less than 1/500 and prefer higher, like 1/640. One trick I use to improve composition and better fill the frame with the train is to pick out a rail joint, weed or something along the right-of-way where the locomotive will be perfectly positioned. When the train arrives, I keep my eye on that spot and trip the shutter as the front of the locomotive passes it. I don't always time it perfectly, but it's close. I sometimes use the continuous shooting feature too, but I'm "old skool" enough to most often stick with this simple technique that's served me well for many decades.
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