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611 sits in Enola Yard for the evening as it prepares for its trip down the Lurgan Branch the next morning
(Toronto, Ontario)
OM2n, OM35mm/f2.8, Kodak Ektar 100
well I put up trains and cranes and just cranes...
Rolleiflex 2.8D
Xenotar 80mm f/2.8
Fujichrome Provia 100F
10 Minute Exposure
I ended up running the exposure about a minute/minute and a half longer than expected waiting on a train to pass over - but nothing came.
EXPLORED on February 14th, 2013 - #124
This abandoned trainyard is only one of its kind as it is on the site of the Chernobyl Nuclear disaster. The rusting carriages, piles of metal debris and what remains of the platform make it a far cry from the bustling station that once welcomed people from all over the Soviet Union to work at the nuclear power plant.
After the disaster, passengers arriving at Yanov station were immediately put on evacuation buses and sent back out of Pripyat. Today, the town is within the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Named for the nearby Pripyat River, Pripyat was founded on 4 February 1970, the ninth nuclear city in the Soviet Union, for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979, and had grown to a population of 49,360 before being evacuated a few days after the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Though Pripyat is located within the administrative district of Ivankiv Raion, the abandoned city now has a special status within the larger Kiev Oblast (province), being administered directly from Kiev. Pripyat is also supervised by Ukraine's Ministry of Emergencies, which manages activities for the entire Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
Access to Pripyat, unlike cities of military importance, was not restricted before the disaster as nuclear power stations were seen by the Soviet Union as safer than other types of power plants. Nuclear power stations were presented as being an achievement of Soviet engineering, where nuclear power was harnessed for peaceful projects. The slogan "peaceful atom" (Russian: mirnyj atom) was popular during those times. The original plan had been to build the plant only 25 km (16 mi) from Kiev, but the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, among other bodies, expressed concern about it being too close to the city. As a result, the power station and Pripyat were built at their current locations, about 100 km (62 mi) from Kiev. After the disaster the city of Pripyat was evacuated in two days.
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U.S. Steel SW1000 #69 races Delray Connecting SW1001 #64 as they both work Great Lakes Works at Ecorse. The DC job has just completed their run from Zug Island and are more switching the CN interchange here at GLW.
This was a continuation of a class assignment on lighting. I had done some earlier photos of silos in a train yard and thought that would be a good place to set-up a night shoot. I knew there were cars on the siding because they had been there for more than a week. Sure enough there they were.
Nightfall came at 7:10 that evening, so I got there at 9 to make sure it was very dark. I chose the train yard because I didn't have to contend with ambient light from other sources.
. . . .BY NITE I was to be the foundation shot, and I was going to do details of different parts of the wheel truck. So setting up the LED video lights, I took several shots.of the truck. Then I moved the lights to catch the refelction and highlights off the polished surface of the wheel where it meets the track . . . and that is when I heard "ka-chunk" and the train began to move. Scared the beejeezus out of me. I grabbed the camera off the tripod, crouched down and started shooting where I had pre-aimed the LED's. And that's how I got the second shot.
Thank goodness, I nixed the idea of lighting from behind the wheels with the LED's.
After spending nearly 5 months in the locomotive shops in Altoona undergoing repainting, the Virginian Heritage unit, NS 1069, is finally shown the light of day just outside of the paint shop for a corporate photoshoot.
I wasn't quite sure what function the flashing barrier served as the rails ran parallel to the building.
I'm sure that it is for logical function to do something in a grain siding. The mysterious doors to somewhere I found intriguing, with a dash of color and lots of sgtrong lines and texture.
Fresh after reading about how people were getting stopped by police and overzealous rent-a-cop train CSX security, I decided to stop by for another shoot. Another boring cloudless sunrise, so took the tracks which I have never seen so empty before.
The trainyard in Cologne, Germany, just beyond the Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom).
Trying out different framing with heavy vignetting
Turku, Finland
Summer 2021
Wirgin 6x9 Folder, Kentmere 400 (exp), Rodinal 1+25
An experiment to shoot panorama on 35mmm film with a medium format camera. I didn't expect so much but I'm positively surprised with the results. I will definitely try this again! Just need to find more suitably wide subjects!