Big Boy Hitting the Fair Oaks Diamonds
This Day of the Chase I was off to a bit of a slow start. I inadvertently overslept and the first several runbys/shots things were very disjointed, obviously, as I struggled to get my feet under me.
As I entered the town of Fair Oaks, I found myself slightly ahead of the train and I was prioritizing getting though and out of town ahead of the train. I saw a RR-xing sign ahead and was a bit confused because I didn't think the tracks that Big Boy was running on crossed the Highway again so soon.
Turned out that there was a diamond with a UP Memphis Sub here. I screeched to a halt immediately after the grade crossing and jogged over to check things out. One spot at the end of the photo line remained and I had just enough time to set up both video and stills before the symphony of clattering across the diamonds started up. No one in my shots and no one talked on the video...and it was all pretty much luck.
The sounds of the train hitting the diamond was just the shot in the arm I needed to get things going right again on the day! Watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ4jNCKUiUc
-Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy #4014
-UP Train PSLNL, Heartland of America Tour
-UP (ex-Cotton Belt) Jonesboro Sub, CP CB172 Fair Oaks
-UP (ex-MoPac) Memphis Sub, CP Y316 Fair Oaks
-Along US49/US63, Fair Oaks, AR
-September 14, 2024
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Big Boy Hitting the Fair Oaks Diamonds
This Day of the Chase I was off to a bit of a slow start. I inadvertently overslept and the first several runbys/shots things were very disjointed, obviously, as I struggled to get my feet under me.
As I entered the town of Fair Oaks, I found myself slightly ahead of the train and I was prioritizing getting though and out of town ahead of the train. I saw a RR-xing sign ahead and was a bit confused because I didn't think the tracks that Big Boy was running on crossed the Highway again so soon.
Turned out that there was a diamond with a UP Memphis Sub here. I screeched to a halt immediately after the grade crossing and jogged over to check things out. One spot at the end of the photo line remained and I had just enough time to set up both video and stills before the symphony of clattering across the diamonds started up. No one in my shots and no one talked on the video...and it was all pretty much luck.
The sounds of the train hitting the diamond was just the shot in the arm I needed to get things going right again on the day! Watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ4jNCKUiUc
-Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy #4014
-UP Train PSLNL, Heartland of America Tour
-UP (ex-Cotton Belt) Jonesboro Sub, CP CB172 Fair Oaks
-UP (ex-MoPac) Memphis Sub, CP Y316 Fair Oaks
-Along US49/US63, Fair Oaks, AR
-September 14, 2024
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