Colorful Climb
There are so many shots of a morning eastbound on my "someday" list that a lot of calculations had to be made on the fly as I followed L516 Saturday morning. Since it rarely happens even the light angles can be a little surprising, on top of that I was trying to work in the fall color. The trees were underwhelming in places and tough to work into the shot in others. Sometimes you just have to find the right one.
Just west of Emerald the train works upgrade directly into the rising sun as it crosses 260th St. The climb out of the Willow River watershed toward the drainage of Sandy Creek isn't the steepest on the line but just enough to be a help when chasing. Back in the coal and coke train days this hill would get you an extra set or two of photos if you played your cards right. Just don't get too comfortable once on the other side it's track speed for a long ways.
October 16, 2021.
Colorful Climb
There are so many shots of a morning eastbound on my "someday" list that a lot of calculations had to be made on the fly as I followed L516 Saturday morning. Since it rarely happens even the light angles can be a little surprising, on top of that I was trying to work in the fall color. The trees were underwhelming in places and tough to work into the shot in others. Sometimes you just have to find the right one.
Just west of Emerald the train works upgrade directly into the rising sun as it crosses 260th St. The climb out of the Willow River watershed toward the drainage of Sandy Creek isn't the steepest on the line but just enough to be a help when chasing. Back in the coal and coke train days this hill would get you an extra set or two of photos if you played your cards right. Just don't get too comfortable once on the other side it's track speed for a long ways.
October 16, 2021.