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An endangered snowy plover searches for tidbits among the shells.
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Broken Hill in the first morning light. Photos of this same location have been posted before but under a very different light.
I'm sure anyone who's seen my page before has seen this shot. It's no doubt a favorite of mine. The classic KCS Belle Business train leaving Baton Rouge, LA, with mere minutes of any light to spare was a high water mark for my photography on the KCS. I was never really happy with how grainy the shot was overall, and attempts to print the image any larger than an 8X12 went poorly. Fast forward a year or so, and this new "A.I." noise reduction hits the scene through Adobe's Camera Raw. This photo was one of the first I thought about re-working to see if I could get some serious improvement in Image quality. I forgot about if for a month or two, but today I ran it through clean from the beginning, and came up with this. I'm pretty stoked with the results of the new noise reduction. Compared to my post many months ago there is approximately 2-3 stops less noise than before. I'll leave this image alone for awhile now, and archive other postings of it. It's finally at the place I'd like it to be after shooting it well over a year ago.
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A year ago to nearly the day I shot an outbound KCS M-CXSH leaving Baton Rouge, LA, right at sunrise. At that point the former Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad was still the Kansas City Southern. Fast forward a year, and the Canadian Pacific/Kansas City Southern railroad merger is complete. Now CPKC train M269-18 is running over the Mississippi into Lobdell, Louisiana behind some Canadian power. This day the train is lead by a very clean matched set of Canadian Pacific SD70ACU's. Getting a pairing of these in the deep south was a rare occurrence pre-merger. Now scenes like this may become more common. Getting the M269 here in daylight is a toss up with their call time usually being between 9pm and 12am out of New Orleans. A late arrival the previous day meant we were treated to a great scene as these guys left for Latanier yard near Alexandria, Louisiana.
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Woke up this morning to see this beautiful Hibiscus flower in my window. Had to take it out on a photoshoot.
Mississippi Export Railroad's southbound Saturday train is seen here crossing the Escatawpa River Marsh, on McInnis Lake, in Moss Point, MS. The Export runs south from their northern terminus in Evanston, Ms, to an interchange with CSX in Moss Point through mostly bucolic farmland. When the line gets to Moss Point it quite literally walks on water to get to the interchange, and the railroad's headquarters in Moss Point Proper. While salt marshes are full of water they generally are not all that deep. The railroad took advantage of this phenomenon to sink its roadbed directly into the marsh. Excluding the two main bridges this railroad, in effect, runs right through the lake and river into Moss Point. The line briefly finds land here at the north leg of the old Moss Point wye. Around the corner from here the line once again rolls out into open water to the shops. It's an unorthodox way to construct a railroad, but for 100 years now, it has served the MSE well as their mainline.
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CPKC local LL60 is outbound at the west end of the Bonnet Carre' Spillway in Montz, LA, with a trio of Belle 40 series EMD motors on point. The Baton Rouge turn out of New Orleans was a long standing bastion of newer EMD SD70mac engines. Shortly after the Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern merger those were called back to road service, and now the local draws EMD standard cab power. Former Frisco GP40 2961 leads SD40-2's 3205 and 3206 north with 58 cars in tow this day. The sun was all but gone by the time the train got on the east end of the spillway bridge. Good cloud structure meant all wasn't lost. Just as they got into telephoto range the sun popped through a pinhole in the gathering storm clouds, and remained out through the end of the bridge... It's no KCS OCS here, but a trio of KCS standard cabs isn't a bad second... Hopefully this kind of power sticks around here a bit. It's a nice thing to see as the CPKC regime takes over.
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KCS 1 and company look wonderful in the beautiful morning sunlight as they cross a small wooden trestle near Anacoco, Louisiana. The Business train is on day 3 of its multi-day trip to Laredo, Texas. Here it is scorching down the KCS' Beaumont Subdivision towards the days destination of Kendleton, Texas. Thanks especially to David Hawkins for messaging us that the OCS was out of the yard in Shreveport early that AM. Sunrise was at 6 and they were not far behind. We leapfrogged them this day to start shooting in a cloudy Zwolle, La, but quickly were blessed with some wonderful sunny angles of the train. This one at Anacoco takes the cake. Wooden trestles on class one railroad main lines are rare these days, and this scene with the passenger F's looks stuck right in the mid 1950's. More to come soon!
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