Got the shot
For years this location on the FEC has been very high on my want list but the distance and FEC's light traffic has kept it in the someday file. With the promise of clear skies from a cold front though a friend and I drove through the night to get to the FEC for a 3 day trip. We got to Stuart just before sunrise and after shooting a sillouhete of 210 we set up for FEC 109 from the US 1 bridge. However on that first day everything went totally wrong, the train ran at the worst time when the US 1 bridge shadow almost completely covered the bridge and the train had a dreaded LNG set with all baretables upfront, all the effort for nothing....The second day of the trip we set out for round 2 at Stuart. This time everything went much better, the train was later allowing the shadows to clear, the power was better and the train had a nice set of rock cars upfront. Bucket list checkmark! FEC 109 at Stuart, Florida.
Got the shot
For years this location on the FEC has been very high on my want list but the distance and FEC's light traffic has kept it in the someday file. With the promise of clear skies from a cold front though a friend and I drove through the night to get to the FEC for a 3 day trip. We got to Stuart just before sunrise and after shooting a sillouhete of 210 we set up for FEC 109 from the US 1 bridge. However on that first day everything went totally wrong, the train ran at the worst time when the US 1 bridge shadow almost completely covered the bridge and the train had a dreaded LNG set with all baretables upfront, all the effort for nothing....The second day of the trip we set out for round 2 at Stuart. This time everything went much better, the train was later allowing the shadows to clear, the power was better and the train had a nice set of rock cars upfront. Bucket list checkmark! FEC 109 at Stuart, Florida.