Midweek Photos 12/12/2018

Fantastic, thanks for posting!

Thanks, certainly added to my day.

Tplee

Great Photos,  Thanks

Yeap! Great shots there. Thank you for sharing.

Yeah.  Professional looking photography.

One of these days I will get around to seeing all the operating steam engines.  The 1225 is toward the top of list.  Partly because it's cool, partly because it's -relatively- close.  I've continued taking b&w white shots with my Chamonix camera and have begun to add some sheets of color film.  I was at a small local waterfall on the BNSF Corson (SD) sub and took a nice photo there.  I think--have to wait until I get the negatives back.  The next night I was sitting at home and I heard a n/b grain train blow it's horn.  I knew I could beat it to the little waterfall--the tracks have restricted speed now.  I pulled on my boots, grabbed my coat, and ran out the door!  To get to the falls I have to walk across a cow pasture.  Normally not a big deal but when I got there it was full of cattle!  There were about 100 Angus feeders blocking my path.  The cattle aren't aggressive but they do spook easily.  Didn't want to get them running in the dark and have one break a leg.  Or worse, not see me dressed in my black clothing and trample me in their panic!  I instead walked down the fence line along the tracks.

I got there in plenty of time, set up three small flash, and waited.  It wasn't nearly as long a wait as I had thought it would be though!  Train came along doing about 10 mph and I popped the shot.  I was getting ready to pack up when I heard another train chat with the grain train.  It was going to come when the tracks were clear!  So, I got two shots for the price of one!  The cattle had run off when the train went by, but since I was parked on the south end of the pasture I had to walk the 3/4 mile back.  I was happy though.  I do intend to go back soon when the weather warms enough to thaw more of the waterfall.

Kent in SD

Great Pictures, thanks for sharing

Great shots Kent!  

Come up and see the 1225.  I will go out and shoot with you, I will even bring out the film cameras!  

Jdevleerjr posted:

Great shots Kent!  

Come up and see the 1225.  I will go out and shoot with you, I will even bring out the film cameras!  

I don't need much enticing to chase a steam engine, but if you go railfanning with me bring a flashlight.

Kent in SD

Sunday, December 2 was a day to bring train crew members up to speed on qualifying for the Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad's physical characteristics between Scranton and Delaware Water Gap, PA.  The train got off to a bit of a late start, and then came to a stop just East of the Steamtown yard, and entering the D-L mainline. 

The train crew stopped for a bit to get coffee and some breakfast at the Erie Lackawanna Dining Car Preservation Society's set of cars which were waiting at the siding.  It was the breakfast with Santa Claus event.  Santa and his favorite elf posed by the parked F3-led train. 

The train pulled up a bit, allowing me and a couple of other rail fans to view the Lackawanna painted F3 units (70 years old this year) pulling up along a genuine Lackawanna Budd Diner (turning 70 in 2019)

The overcast sky was not ideal, but not bad.  I was able to frame the train with some nearby white pines. 

While the train was stopped, we posed some around the trains.  We tried to replicate the types of photos you would see in the old Lackawanna Railroad Magazine. 

At your service.  Indubitably. 

Two23 posted:

The next night I was sitting at home and I heard a n/b grain train blow it's horn.  I knew I could beat it to the little waterfall--the tracks have restricted speed now.  I pulled on my boots, grabbed my coat, and ran out the door!  To get to the falls I have to walk across a cow pasture.  Normally not a big deal . . . 

Kent in SD

Kent, you have one of the very few wives who consider this normal.