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Today's trains 12R and 15R with faded UP leader and trailing BNSF unit.

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Helping to keep our air conditioners running, coal train 786 from today with a helper adding some muscle on the rear.

Braved the heat and humidity this morning to grab a quick shot of Train L624 readying to depart Columbia, SC. The train is a "turn", working industries along a line, then returning home on the same route in the evening.

The summer heat and humidity have kept the D5100 shelved, but my train addiction finally won and I sweated out a wait for Norfolk Southern grain train 50V this afternoon.

Great capture Sandpatch! Thanks for getting sweaty.

Originally Posted by crashton

Great capture Sandpatch! Thanks for getting sweaty.

To beat the heat here, I sometimes I think a surplus Apollo space suit and portable air conditioning pack would be just the ticket.

Today's picture is of a Jersey Central caboose that's 160 times smaller than the real thing, i.e. N Scale. The caboose is 2-3/8" long.

I had some fun with this picture, taking it with my late father's Nikkor f/3.5 55mm Macro (circa 1970) coupled to my D5100. It's such a sweet lens and is as tight and clear as ever. Settings are by the seat of the pants, but it's fairly easy to hone in on the right settings. This was taken at f/32 @ 8 Seconds. Focusing is manual too, but my D5100 illuminates a green dot in the viewfinder when it feels the focus is correct. My father also bought the M2 Extension Tube for it, which allows extreme close ups. I didn't use the M2 for this shot.

Anyway, it's neat to play around with the lens and God bless Nikon for keeping the F-Mount system intact through these many decades.