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A mixed freight is headed out of Altoona in the direction of Pittsburgh but is seen here in the magic of Infrared photography.
Seen rolling along the Pittsburgh Line in Central Pennsylvania. Rather, smelled rolling along.
I liked the googly eye someone put on the horse on the nose.
Nikkor AFS 24-70mm f/2.8 @ f/8
Sitting outside of the NS Juniata Engine Shop is the Savanna and Atlanta Heritage unit and some brand-new trucks. Interestingly, the wheel treads on the trucks have numbers stenciled on them.
Nikkor 80-200mm AFS f/2.8 @ f/5
I love to capture motion in my still photography and one of my favorite ways is to just capture the wheel sets (trucks) of train cars as they pass. Suddenly, what was before a boring string of intermodal cars becomes opportunities to capture motion and railroading without looking at the whole train itself.
Nikkor 80-200mm AFS f/2.8 @ f/9
A Q train from Tacoma in its final stretch before arriving at its destination of Logistics Park Chicago in Elwood as the sun begins to set for the day.
It was nice to finally have a sunny day here in Illinois. I've been itching to take a sunny shot for the first time in ever, so I headed out the door and shot a few trains in the final sun rays of the day. Usually, when I want to just go out and shoot anything because of the conditions there isn’t a train for 40+ miles even though any other time they are constant.
The wide cabs are pulling their first cut of cars to make up their train before leaving town while the quad set of EMD standard cabs is waiting their turn to hop over and pull their cut of cars for the Buffalo line.
A G-Scale (1:32) Norfolk Southern OCS train takes a tour of my garden railroad.
Here's a video of the train in operation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYhsTmYg9aE
Loaded hoppers streak past as their Norfolk Southern train fights the grades of the Pittsburgh Line.
Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 AFS @ f/22
A mixed freight heads through Mexico, PA on the Pittsburgh line. These are actually the helpers on the rear, the train had a single EMD leader.
Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ f/9
Three NS locos, running elephant style, lead this intermodal freight down the Lurgan Branch on a sunny afternoon. Seen here crossing the Yellow Breeches Creek. A fisherman is seen on the right fishing for trout.
Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ f/10
An old boxcar I spotted in a Norfolk Southern mixed freight at Carney's Crossing on the Pittsburgh line on a recent adventure.
Demonstrating what is perhaps the sharpest prime longer than 50mm, this 180mm f/2.8 lens is great for capturing sharp details.
I used a long lens to photograph this long intermodal so we could see much of it down the tracks. The tracks, and the train, curve off to our right at the far end.
The high-rail truck is a MOW vehicle, parked to watch for falling rocks. The rocks on the right are normally fenced off from the tracks (like those on the left) but NS has been clearing brush and they temporarily removed the fence. This means a MOW worker must be staffed at the site at all times in case something breaks free and rolls down into the path of a train.
Nikkor 400mm f/2.8 @ f/5.6
The turntable at the NS Juniata Locomotive Shops was empty the last time I visited, but the S&A heritage unit is on one of the tracks, awaiting service.
Sigma 15mm f/2.8 @ f/7.1
An eastbound coal train passes the crossing a The Brickyard, South of Altoona.
Sigma EX DG 15mm f/2.8 @ f/22
A load of NS unit trains sit in South Yard in Roanoke waiting for Crews to show up and take them east. Was a very impressive line up here, it was great to see the Nickel Plate parked here and i always enjoy seeing Dash 9s.
With the Kissing Tower and silos for the old Hershey plant behind, this tanker train makes its way Eastbound on the NS Harrisburg Line towards Reading, PA.
The BNSF trailing unit is just ahead of a BNSF covered hopper acting as a buffer car for the train. On the rear was a former Southern covered hopper as the buffer car.
These two locos were headed out, likely to be turned on the wye just north of the yard.
The miniature effect is due to using a Tilt / Shift lens to manipulate the focal plane, combined with a tight depth of field, to make the full-size train look like a model train.
An Eastbound tanker train rounds the curve at Cove, PA. The near tracks are part of a 6,000 ft long siding while the other two tracks are the mainline between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh.
The milepost on the relay hut is 116.9 while the small white mile marker on the right is 117.
Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8 AFS @ f/4
A great spot in the Conrail days, Mexico PA, is still a fun spot to watch the Pittsburgh line. An EMD leader fights its way over Pennsylvania's hills.
I found an old bridge with a good view of the mainline at a curve.
Nikon D600 & Nikkor 300mm f/4 @ f/5.6
Empty hopper train NS 776 heads west (compass south-south-west) down the Lurgan Branch. NS 1060 is the leader (seen here) with NS 4290 as the helper on the rear.
This NS train is exiting Enola Yard. It looks like a model train via the tilt effect of a tilt/shift lens (Perspective Control).
B11 heading West for Hennepin past the Sunbury elevator that receives NS unit grain trains occasionally.
The effect of this "Perspective Control" Lens renders an image that makes this full-size train appear to be a miniature or model train.
Nikkor PC 85mm f/2.8 Tilt/Shift
Using a Tilt/Shift lens to make this freight train look like a toy train emerging from a tunnel.
Nikkor PC 85mm f/2.8 Tilt/Shift @ f/4.8
The CSX Spirit of Law Enforcement leads an empty ethanol train along the UP Geneva Subdivision at La Fox, IL. The cab signals being eliminated along the line have been nice for foreign power to lead.
Action fromJack Lemvard
Vattana Motorsport at the 9th Bangsaen Speed Festival, Bangsaen Beach. Photo: Keith Mulcahy
In 1870, building west from Roodhouse, IL to a location across the water know as "Quincy Junction," the St. Louis, Jacksonville & Chicago Railroad met the Louisiana and Missouri River Railroad, who had built east from Mexico, MO three years prior, here, on each of their respective sides of the Mighty Mississippi. Needing to join together, both railroads would ultimately break the barrier the river created between them, constructing a swing bridge here in 1873 that would link the end of the two routes together and allow for an eventual mainline connection between the major cities of East St. Louis and Kansas City. Shortly after, the StLJ&C would soon become fully absorbed by the Chicago & Alton Railroad in 1899, and as the years went by and the line saw its fair share of different owners, in 2001, the Kansas City Southern would fully dissolve the Gateway Western (GWWR), who last had the route from 1990 on, continuing to operate the tracks to this day. The year etched on the bridge's westernmost span reads 1898, a date from when this bridge was fully rebuilt by the Chicago & Alton using the original 1873 piers. Upon completion, it was the largest swing span of its kind in the world, although that stat didn't hold true for much time as it was quickly succeeded by other structural crossings over both this and the Missouri River.
In present day, making landfall onto the Missouri shore, KCS road freight MVNKC 15 navigates westward across the Mississippi's waters from Illinois by means of the over century old bridge's 2,054 feet of steel members, arranged in a mismatched combination of eight Pratt and Warren designs, culminated all into a 446' moveable swing span. Today's assigned pair of EMD SD70MACs exit the bridge and immediately lean into a sharp, right-handed curve as they slowly bring their 46-car train of KC-Knoche bound mixed traffic past the interlocking signal for a diamond with BNSF's Hannibal Subdivision, soon entering the town of Louisiana. The aluminum shack located halfway across the swing span is still manned 24-hrs a day by a bridge tender, importantly tasked with spinning and locking the rails of this single track mainline in place for the safe passage of only a small handful of daily train movements that this far northern, back alley route of the KCS railroad system sees.
Using a tilt/shift lens to create a miniature effect of a real train so it would look like a model train running around a trainset. This Eastbound intermodal freight worked well for my shot.
Nikkor PC 85mm f/2.8 Tilt/Shift @ f/4.8
UP 1417 leading the Troy Grove Sub South on the branch after a couple days of heavy snow and drifting.