Canon EOS 7D
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East Deerfield— Dozen Years Ago
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On July 30, 2012, I made this view of Pan Am Railway’s road freight EDMO (East Deerfield to Mohawk Yard, Schectady, NY) beginning its westward journey over the Boston & Maine Fitchburg Route.
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Irish Rail Rail Train at Clondalkin
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We set up at near Clondalkin looking east toward the Park West and Cherry Orchard station on the recently opened quad track section of the Dublin-Cork main line.
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Irish Rail diesel trains August 28, 2013
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Here’s a few views from my old Canon EOS7D from ten years ago.
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Nine Years Ago—Confluence of Celebrity Locomotives!
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At the end of May 2014, fellow photographer Pat Yough and I took Amtrak to Salisbury, North Carolina to partake in the epic gathering of celebrity locomotives described as ‘Streamliners at Spencer.’
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26 April 2013-Containers Pass Donamon
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It was a bright day at Donamon in the west of Ireland, and we could hear the 071 leading the Liner as it accerated away from Roscommon station several minutes before the train came into view.
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27 March 2013 and 27 March 2018
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I’ve selected two photos; one from Five Years ago in Northern Ireland; and one from 10 years ago at Islandbridge in Dublin.
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Ten Years Ago-Greening of Dublin
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On the evening of 15 March 2013, I walked around Dublin making photos of civic structures that had been lit with green-tinted light to celebrate the upcoming St. Patrick’s Day holiday.
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August 28, 2012
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Ten years ago (August 28, 2012) I made this photo from my standard location overlooking Islandbridge Junction in Dublin of the morning’s down IWT Liner led by Irish Rail Class 071 number 073.
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Ballast Extra at Echo Acres.
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Since the whole railroad is arranged on the timetable, trains are either moving east or west regardless of the compass.
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June 21, 2011-Crew Change at Palmer, Mass.
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CSX’s westward freight Q423 had stopped to change crews. In those days, Q423 ran from Worcester, Mass., to Selkirk, NY.
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Savanna, Illinois Revisited—June 24, 2010.
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On a blustery winter morning I find it nice to look through photos made on warm summer afternoons. In June 2010, I had just bought my Canon EOS 7D DSLR (digital single lens reflex) and made an extended drive around the…
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Pan Am and the Hawk.
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Compositional challenges in four photos. The other day I was at the old ‘waste too much film’ bridge at Pan Am’s East Deerfield Yard near Greenfield, Massachusetts. An eastward freight was about to proceed into the yard when a hawk…
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Midleton, Co. Cork on Film and Digital.
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October 7, 2014. A few years ago, Irish Rail rebuilt its Youghal Branch between Cobh Junction and Midleton. After decades of inactivity, this route now enjoys a regular interval passenger service. I find it fascinating that this long closed railway…
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Kansas City Southern’s Dodger.
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McElhany, Missouri It was the afternoon of August 16, 2011, Chris Guss and I were on a three day visit to Kansas City Southern’s north-south mainline. We were chasing the ‘Dodger’—what I’d call a local freight—led by freshly painted GP38…
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Irish Rail’s Cobh Branch.
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My Whirlwind Tour—October 2014. Irish Rail operates an excellent and well-patronized service on its Kent Station to Cobh line. In conjunction with this service are trains running on the recently reopened line to Midleton. Yesterday’s post focused on Cobh Junction,…
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All Quiet at CP83
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Looking Toward Winter. As the warmer greener season (some call it ‘summer’) fades, I thought it would be time for a reminder of the colder whiter months coming. On February 8, 2011, I exposed this snowy photo at my all-too-familiar…
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Settle & Carlisle—Part 1.
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One of the Most Visually Stunning Railways Britain’s famed Settle & Carlisle is among the great railway lines. Its superb engineering and stunning natural settings, combined with a history of dramatic lighting effects as a result of the surrounding topography have long made…
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The Marble City Rolls in the Evening—Part 3
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A Long Delay Results in an Unexpected Opportunity. We waited at milepost 17 near Sallins for the return of locomotive 461 with Railway Preservation Society Ireland’s The Marble City rail tour from Kilkenny. After a bit of a delay, I’d became…
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TRACKING THE LIGHT: Canadian Pacific Local on the Milwaukee Road.
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Freshly Painted GP38-2s on Jointed Rail at DeForest, Wisconsin June 23, 2010—four years ago today—John Gruber and I followed CP Rail’s local freight from Madison toward Portage on a secondary line of the old Milwaukee Road. Locomotive 4509, an Electro-Motive…
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Tracking the Light Corners Pan Am Railways Number 1
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No Escape this Time! To compensate for bad luck, and a series of bad timings, I made it a point to photograph Pan Am Railways executive F-unit at Spencer. What? Just about every time Pan Am Railway’s has run their…
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Streamliner Noir
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On the Darker Side of Spencer! Part of the attraction of North Carolina Transportation Museum’s Streamliners at Spencer event was the pre-arranged night photograph sessions. Large industrial scale flood lamps were arranged to provide roughly even lighting on locomotives that had…
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Daily Post: Snow Exposure Quandry
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Pan Am 310 East of Shelburne Falls I exposed this image of Pan Am Railways GP40 310 leading MOED on the afternoon of February 17, 2014. By any measure this scene posed a difficult exposure. The locomotive is a dark…
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Daily Post: Snow Along The Canal, Birds in Flight, A Tram
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A Moment in Time, November 28, 2010. It doesn’t snow in Dublin very often, and when it snows it rarely stays on the ground for long. It had started snowing heavily overnight on November 28, 2010 and when I awoke,…
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DAILY POST: BNSF SD70ACE at Enola, Pennsylvania.
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Location and Locomotive. Fifty years ago, it would have been pretty neat to see a Burlington GP30 at Pennsylvania Railroad’s Enola Yard. Yet for the context of that photo to be fully appreciated, it would help to have the location…
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Daily Post: Brussels August 2013
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Old World Charm and Modern Trams. The Belgian cities have admirable tram networks. By far the most extensive is that in Brussels. Here tram routes crisscross the city. While long sections of tram subway now serve central Brussels, there’s still…
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Daily Post: Westward Freight in Wink of Sun
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CSX Q427 Claws Upgrade at Chester, Massachusetts. For me the old Boston & Albany West end is hallowed ground. This was the first true mountain mainline in the modern sense. The line was surveyed in the mid 1830s and by…
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DAILY POST; West Warren Contrasts; 2010 and 2013
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Difficulties of Photographing in the Spring and Summer. That’s just what you want to read about right now, isn’t it!. Gosh, those awful warm months with the long days, soft sunlight and thick foliage. Well, here I have two views,…
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DAILY POST: Trains Meet on a Summer Morning at Cassandra, Pennsylvania.
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Pleasant Morning on the West Slope. In contrast from the iced grip of winter, these photographs were made on June 30, 2010. This was a gorgeous warm summer’s morning; birds twittered the tree branches as the sun light streamed through…
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Daily Post: Amtrak Cities Sprinter Revenue Run, February 7, 2014
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Photos of Amtrak’s Latest. Yesterday (February 7, 2014), after several months of testing, Amtrak’s new ACS-64 Siemens built ‘Cities Sprinter’ locomotive 600 made its first revenue run on Amtrak train 171 (Boston to Washington). My dad and I went to…
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Daily Post: Railcar Graffiti
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Sayre, Pennsylvania, August 2010. Watching trains today, it seems that graffiti is omnipresent. Hardly a freight passes without heavily tagged cars in consist. Railcar graffiti isn’t a recent phenomena. Traditional chalked tags have appeared on cars for generations. I recall…
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DAILY POST: Vermonter at Dusk
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Ethereal View at Millers Falls, January 2014. Tim Doherty asked me a few weeks back, “Have you ever tried a shot from the north side of the Millers Falls high bridge?” I’d looked a this several times, but was discouraged…
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DAILY POST: Amtrak Heritage P40 at West Warren, Massachusetts!
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Light! Camera! Action! Here we have an instance where everything came together nicely. On Friday January 24, 2014, I’d got word that Amtrak’s heritage locomotive number 822 was working the westward Lake Shore Limited, train 449 This was the second…
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Daily Post: Busy Morning at West Trenton
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Photographing on the former Reading Company. The word was out that Norfolk Southern’s Pennsylvania Railroad painted heritage locomotive was to work a detoured stack train over CSX’s Trenton Subdivision to avoid a scheduled engineering project at Norristown, Pennsylvania. Pat Yough…
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SPECIAL POST: SEPTA in the Snow
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Afternoon and evening, January 21, 2014. This morning dawned with a blood-red sunrise. Something about a red sky in the morning? What I’d call ‘winter’ has been given all sorts of new fancy names. Probably the most absurd is the…
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TRACKING THE LIGHT NEWS FLASH: Photos of Philadelphia Schuylkill River Bridge Derailment.
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Monday Afternoon; January 20, 2014. The news media reported that early this morning (January 20, 2014), an oil train destined for Philadelphia derailed while crossing the Schuylkill River. The derailment occurred near I-76 and within sight of Center City. This…
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DAILY POST: Exploring SEPTA
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January 2014 Philadelphia Photo Exercise For me, SEPTA is one of the most photogenic American big city transit systems. Sure, other cities have their charms, but Philadelphia has a lot going for it; variety, accessibility, interval services on most routes,…