In the long days, early morning illumination at Norfolk Southern’s Lewis (Dillerville) Yard in Lancaster, Pa., made some opportunities for classic sunlit photos of antique EMD diesels.
Back in April, I posted a few photos here on a dull day. I knew I could improve upon them, so last Sunday I paid another visit, and this time I bought out the heavy equipment.
Images were exposed digitally using Nikon Z6 and Z7-II cameras.
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Although, I’ve made countless photos at Esbenshade Road, on this occasion I was interigued by the crop patterns in the field on the northside of the Strasburg Rail Road tracks.
The combination of a richly textured sky and these foreground patterns made for an interesting setting.
I made a sequence of images using my Nikon Z7-II mirrorless. In post-processing I created two variations from the same cropped NEF RAW file.
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I scoped out a different location to roll by Amtrak’s Keystone.
So Kris, Seamus-the-Dog, and I, paid a cloudy evening visit to catch Train 667 near the village of Witmer—about 4 minutes away from the train’s Lancaster, Pa., station stop
ACS-64 electrics were positioned at both ends of the consist.
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