UP 8540 East
This is the shot you end up with when you overthink things and don’t stick around to wait for the train to come to the spot with perfect light on a nice curve.
I wanted to shoot this guy at Loring since the UP didn’t have a train parked there for the first day in forever. My PTC monitoring stuff wasn’t working right so I went to higher ground to get better reception. About the time I got there, the train knocked down 22.9. Now I’m 2 miles away from a train that I know is slowing to a stop. Can I beat it? Hell no.
So here you get a side lit image of an eastbound train from the spot that I wanted to shoot the westbound train that this POS was now double tracking me from getting.
UP 8540 East
This is the shot you end up with when you overthink things and don’t stick around to wait for the train to come to the spot with perfect light on a nice curve.
I wanted to shoot this guy at Loring since the UP didn’t have a train parked there for the first day in forever. My PTC monitoring stuff wasn’t working right so I went to higher ground to get better reception. About the time I got there, the train knocked down 22.9. Now I’m 2 miles away from a train that I know is slowing to a stop. Can I beat it? Hell no.
So here you get a side lit image of an eastbound train from the spot that I wanted to shoot the westbound train that this POS was now double tracking me from getting.