Re: #2472 near Guadalupe, per Scott's request (NNG)
| October 24, 2007 04:59PM |
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Aw shucks, Scott -
Fussy is as Fussy does. I'm sure you know by now to take whatever I say with a grain of salt - or, more often, a spoonful.
- El Curmudgeonito
*****
And I must be at least as fussy as you and Tom. Here is the 2472 shot you asked for, and the bozo on the diseasel isn't nearly as intrusive as I remember - it's just that he shouldn't be there. It may be that after I gave up trying to erase him completely, I just dulled him down to the point where he almost disappears in the fog. (Fog may dim the colors a bit, but it also softens the contrast and minimizes problems with shadows.)
The photo was taken in mid-September, 1992, using a Mamiya RB67 with a 180mm lens, and the scan is from a very high quality 8x10 print. This is a 100K .jpg reduction from a 165MB .tif file. (Per Doug Debs of the GGRM, #2472 should be running again before Christmas - on the Niles Canyon Railway, a few miles south of Oakland, CA.)
p.s. DAMN S.P. for not saving a 4300! With one more pair of drivers, #2472 would not just be among the most beautiful (NNG) locos around, she would be among the most beautiful (NNG) locos ever built!! * (Even the hardest of hard-core narrow-gauge foamers has to admit there is a special symmetry associated with locomotives equipped with the classiest of all Vanderbilt tenders ... )
pps. When delivered by Baldwin in 1921, she probably had a dark olive green boiler jacket, cylinder covers, etc. ...
* O-K, you midwesterners & downeasters - go ahead and flame me!
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 10/25/2007 01:36AM by Russo Loco.
Fussy is as Fussy does. I'm sure you know by now to take whatever I say with a grain of salt - or, more often, a spoonful.
- El Curmudgeonito
*****
And I must be at least as fussy as you and Tom. Here is the 2472 shot you asked for, and the bozo on the diseasel isn't nearly as intrusive as I remember - it's just that he shouldn't be there. It may be that after I gave up trying to erase him completely, I just dulled him down to the point where he almost disappears in the fog. (Fog may dim the colors a bit, but it also softens the contrast and minimizes problems with shadows.)
The photo was taken in mid-September, 1992, using a Mamiya RB67 with a 180mm lens, and the scan is from a very high quality 8x10 print. This is a 100K .jpg reduction from a 165MB .tif file. (Per Doug Debs of the GGRM, #2472 should be running again before Christmas - on the Niles Canyon Railway, a few miles south of Oakland, CA.)
p.s. DAMN S.P. for not saving a 4300! With one more pair of drivers, #2472 would not just be among the most beautiful (NNG) locos around, she would be among the most beautiful (NNG) locos ever built!! * (Even the hardest of hard-core narrow-gauge foamers has to admit there is a special symmetry associated with locomotives equipped with the classiest of all Vanderbilt tenders ... )
pps. When delivered by Baldwin in 1921, she probably had a dark olive green boiler jacket, cylinder covers, etc. ...
* O-K, you midwesterners & downeasters - go ahead and flame me!
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 10/25/2007 01:36AM by Russo Loco.
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