Midweek Photos 3/14/2012

Here are a few of my recent experiments, playing around with HDR:

 Valley RR 97 crossing Old Deep River Road in Essex, CT

 Westbound Acela rolling through Old Saybrook, CT

 Providence & Worcester NH-1 departing Old Saybrook for New Haven

 Providence & Worcester NR-2, working in Versailles, CT

 New England Central freight, with Toledo, Peoria and Western 4053 for power, switching in Montville, CT

Enjoy,

Lee

Ok, so how did you get the HDR to work with moving objects.  For me, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't; but then again, I only use HDR pro, not plug in software.

Here's one that kind of worked with a fast moving train.

And another, with a slow moving train.

Pi day - 3/14 as in 3.14 - veerry educational!

I'll try throwing a curve for such an intelligent topic.

Close enough?

What is HDR? Does it have words?

O-b

HDR = High Dynamic Range Imaging.  You can set a SLR digital camera to take a series of pictures of the same picture that changes the contrast of each shot and then you merge the shots together to suppossedly give a sharper photo with ultimized contrast.  Some photographers think it is the greatest.  Personally, I don't think the effort of processing the photos is worth the effort for the final result but others will challenge my opinion.

Swipesy - Thanks forthe excellent info and your opinion as well.

O-b

Leased power on CSX through Berea, Ohio.

Tim....you are exactly right....this was the old R,F&P line through Ashland. My fraternity house at Randolph-Macon College fronts on these tracks about a block from the station in your photos. One of my model trains is the old R,F&P locos pulling the Tropicana juice train. Used to see that a few times a week in the early 80's. Don't know if you knew this, but if you look at the train station you will see it is perfectly symmetrical...like a mirror image on each side. That is because it was designed and built as two seperate stations during segregation...one half was the station for blacks and one half was the station for whites. There are photos of it also in the Smithsonian. Awesome pics...brings back memories!

Best,

Wyndham

There's another post on the real trains forum here about the neat little Flagg steamer, a soon to be tv star. I was lucky enough to see it in action at the Petersburg WVA railfest in 2010.

You could pay to run her for a fee, and included was a photo of you doing so.

The two small steamers at the fest where a real hit, helped make up for the absence of

Western Maryland Scenic's 734

Ed  Mullan

As always, great photos and information.  Thank you Virginian for the lore of the station, too.  It may be my own opinion but from what I have seen and read, the railroads probably took the "separate but equal" idea seriously.  Perhaps because they did not want any part of their operation to be shabby.  I can only imagine what the railroad would be like if it was up to municipalities to decide what was "equal" for the blacks.

Enola Yard - 

SD45-2s on the Amboy Secondary -