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The sweeping 'S' curves at milepost 66 of BNSF's Gallup Subdivision offer endless opportunities for different photographic angles. The railroad follows the low land below the surrounding mesas along the Rio San Jose. This path briefly has westbound trains pointing almost due south here, ideal for morning photography in the early and later parts of the year.
With only a scant few hours to spend in the area though, before needing to retreat back to Albuquerque for our flight home, my father and I barely scratched the surface of what's possible for morning and mid day shots here.
I was pleased to see a 'Heritage 2' painted ES44 on the point, as I feel this paint variation suits the features of this model best. Unfortunately most of the units of this paint and model combination call Los Angeles home for maintenance, and the leader had a prominent graffiti mark across the side of its long hood. As as result I selected the above image from my series of shots.
Outside my Gallup motel. I know they were just trying to make the place look nice, but snarky me has to mock the tackiness or a drainage ditch. God will punish me.
BNSF Intermodal Train Q-MEMRIC6-25 roars West across the State line from New Mexico & into Arizona
5/28/2018
Amtrak 4 the Southwest Chief heads East through Gallup, NM. As a couple of BNSF Trains does some work in the yard
5/29/2018
I never thought my first sighting of a CP heritage unit would be in Arizona, but here we are and it's 2020. The script lettered CP 7013 leans into the tonnage as a DPU on BNSF's S-LPCSTO1-09L on the Gallup Sub. In a normal year I would be in Wisconsin on vacation right now shooting these along with WSOR, CN, and other CP stuff, seeing friends and family, and getting ready to abuse my liver at an annual multimedia railfan show. But again it's 2020. End of rant.
Hotel/Motel El Rancho | Gallup New Mexico USA
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This is the type of shot that looks easy enough but is actually not at all trivial if you care about maintaining color in the neon. It’s much easier to get a stunning result at the blue hour, but sometimes you don’t have that luxury. This was an experiment prompted by one of those Facebook memories. I made the original set of images in October 2012. The results from the 2012 era software made my 2018 eyes cringe. I decided to see, just as an experiment to prove to myself how far things have come in six short years, what my current tools could do with the same Canon 5D3 raw files. It took about five minutes to get the basic image right and about 15 minutes to do the finishing touches. We have come a long way. This was all done in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop.