Photo Freight-From A different View
| February 14, 2013 07:56PM |
Especially for South Park, here are a couple of non-Colorado shots. I took these during the 2011 Fall Foliage Special on the Sumpter Valley, but from a perspective not often pictured.....The engineers seat.
The photo train turning on the wye at McEwen.
Headed West on the main line.
I wanted to get a shot of the photographers photographing the train, but things get pretty busy during a photo run-by and it is not the time to be concentrating on anything but your locomotive, and the photogs. In the wye shot the train was stopped.
The weather was much better in the morning but I did not have time for photographing then. The distance between photo stops is short and you get lots of exercise working the johnson bar back and forth. Eric took the second day and I was glad to let him have it.
The photo train turning on the wye at McEwen.
Headed West on the main line.
I wanted to get a shot of the photographers photographing the train, but things get pretty busy during a photo run-by and it is not the time to be concentrating on anything but your locomotive, and the photogs. In the wye shot the train was stopped.
The weather was much better in the morning but I did not have time for photographing then. The distance between photo stops is short and you get lots of exercise working the johnson bar back and forth. Eric took the second day and I was glad to let him have it.
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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