Railroad Skittles Lashups
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Something about tasting the rainbow?! I know what you're thinking, I was trying to come up with a title all deep, spiritual and meaningful and this is the best I could do?! Yes, I am an utter child at times! But, the rainbow, is what I kept thinking when I stared at this image, aimlessly considering a much more imaginative title and subsequent text.
One learning curve I have discovered is that I need to start trusting the higher Aperture in relation to the higher compensating ISO, the D5600 can handle the higher values much better than my previous D3400 before noise starts to distort the image. Always be learning, it's the universal key to advancement.
I hope everyone's week is going well and so as always, thank you! :)
PS: And no, I would never eat Skittles, especially when learning that the red ones' colouration is derived from the crushed shells of Cochineal Beetles. The colouration is called Carmine. It's true, here Google it.
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An Indianapolis Power & Light train from Petersburg, IN, located on Indiana Southern is almost to Bear Run mine on the INRD. An inersting quartet of EMD products lead. Two SD40-2s bracket an SD20 and an SD38. BN, ICG (nee-SOU), Penn Central and BN round out the lineage here.
Not every Wheeling train has a pretty matched set of power and this afternoon's 221 with a 'classic skittles consist' was heading into sweet late afternoon light at a great spot. The cars at the elevator at West Clarksfield pushed me higher up that I'd ordinarily like for a clear shot of the train but the overview really shows the full scene well. West Clarksfield, OH 3/5/2023
It's only taken about 8 months and several natural and unnatural disasters for this to happen. And even then, it's still not the black and white portrait it was supposed to be. Maybe not everything is supposed to be black and white, though. Some things have to come in shades of radioactive sorbet, or at the very least...tropical skittles.
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RBMN NRFF (North Reading Fast Freight) departs NR Yard across Peacocks Lock Viaduct with three six axles for power. The first red and yellow leaves can be seen dotting the surrounding areas of Schuylkill River.
This colorful consist found its way on a UP grain train to the Port of Houston this past week, consisting of CP heritage SD70ACU #7014, NS C40-9W #9456, and BNSF Executive MAC #9653. After coming in on GSNVHO-22, the consist was assigned to outbound GSHOWA-30 for Wakeeney, KS, making for a nice treat on Halloween afternoon.
After departing PTRA's North Yard, the train is seen here running south on the West Belt north of downtown Houston. It was routed out of town on the ex-SP Eureka Sub, necessitating an "around the world" trip through the terminal.
This consist was split up shortly afterward, with BNSF 9653 being set out in north Texas, and NS 9456 being set out in Salina, KS.
With its eclectic lashup, UP empty grain GSHOWA-30 heads west through the alley at Sawyer Yards on the Houston Sub M1. With the train being routed to run up the Eureka Sub a few miles ahead, I knew that a golden hour shot on the Sunset Route west of downtown was in order, and this location proved to be quite worth it, including some ex-SP searchlights at CP Niles Jct.
Houston, TX 10/31/2022
Macro Monday's and the theme of "Five".
A bit late today as family matters prevented me from taking and uploading earlier but I finally found the time.
After letting much of the week pass and not coming up with a subject I eventually settled on five of my son's "Skittles" sweets.
I decided not only to use five of these but also five different colours. These five different colours I also decided to arrange in a similar position to those on a colour wheel.
After a bit of thought I chose to use my flashgun and some diffusion material and get some nice shadows on a white piece of paper,
NS 14N's head end ducks under the east end of CP 281 with an assortment of paint on the front. That high yellow on main two would be knocked down in seconds by a westbound freight that's already halfway around the curve behind me.
Millbury, OH 3/28/2022
A Southwestern Railway train from the BNSF interchange at Rincon is on its final miles into Deming, NM. Three SW SD40s in CEFX and BNSF colors provide power and a UP AC6000 is along for the ride to the UP interchange.
Pixie & Skittles
Almost 1 month after adoption, and enjoying their new home!
Canon EOS Rebel SL1
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4
1/320th sec
f/1.4
iso 500
Photograph taken 27 June 2024
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- SRWE Hotsampling
- Reshade Framework
- Duncan Harris CE Table
I don't know why, but for me they really associate with skittles :D
NS 60W with this colorful combination of power is eastbound with frac sand through Holland, OH. 11/18/2023
In a Row.
These mini skittles are just under 1" high and came out of a Christmas Cracker!
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Skittles - Convergent Lady Beetles congregating for fall/winter hibernation. This is a native species of lady beetle that congregates in forests around the west coast in the fall/winter months.
While I heard about these congregations before, this was the first opportunity I had to photograph them. Was great experience and unique challenge to practice and develop my macro photography techniques.
Species: Convergent Lady Beetle (Hippodamia convergens)
Location: Northern California, CA, USA
Equipment: Canon EOS R5 + EF 100-400mm IS II + EF 1.4x III Extender, On Tripod, Natural Light
Settings: 1/60s, ISO: 1000, f/11 @896mm (APS-C Mode), Electronic Shutter
This day didn't go at all how I'd hoped. After driving all the way over to Brewster and having lunch the 221 crew that had been called at noon got pulled to instead grab this skittles power consist and put it on an eastbound unit sand train. Two four packs of nice tigers remained in the yard and perhaps sometime late afternoon or evening they dug up another crew, but the train I'd hoped to chase back to Hartland turned into an eastbound that I took this token shot of leaving the yard. For insult to injury, the Willard crew that came on at 2PM instead of taking a train west got taxied to Willard to get on one that died there and never made it back. Oh well, that's the way some days go. Brewster, OH 3/9/2025
One of These Things is NOT Like the Others
5 mini skittles, part of a set of 10 with a tiny ball which came out of a Christmas cracker.
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