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Local in the Dark

On our way home, we exited Rt 30 at Greenfield Road in Lancaster, Pa. The clock read 9:36pm.

“The local should be working High.”

As we drove under Amtrak’s Harrisburg Line, we could see that four freshly delivered flat cars of steel had been delivered to High Steel Structures. And Norfolk Southern’s local freight had paused on the other side of the road.

It had been a long day, we were tired, but here was a photo opportunity! 

“This will take just a minute.”

I pulled in, and retrieved my Nikon Z6 from the back of the car, set the ISO to 10000, and adjusted my autofocus settings. I placed the camera close to the ground and used the rear display to compose my images. 

In no time we were on our way again.

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Evening Local at High Steel

If you travel from north to south on Greenfield Road in Lancaster, you cross three sets of tracks. The first is Norfolk Southern’s New Holland Secondary near the Greenfield Road exit for Highway 30. The second is a one-lane underpass beneath Amtrak’s electrified Harrisburg Line; the last is an industrial spur that serves High Steel Structures.

We saw a Norfolk Southern local freight with engines positioned on each end of the consist working this spur and paused on Greenfield Road so I could make a few high-ISO photographs with my Z7-II.

These were made using m f4.0 24-70mm zoom hand-held at 6400 ISO.Note the ‘FRED’ telemetry device with flashing red light in the top image.

The Nikon’s NEF RAW files were processed and converted using PureRaw to minimize pixelization and correct for lens defects.

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A Fine Afternoon at Greenfield Road

Not every photo comes easy. Since moving to Lancaster, Pa., Kris and I have crossed the New Holland Branch on Greenfield Road countless times.

It was here that we first saw an NS train on the branch and on several occasions have photographed eastward trains.

I’d often eyed this as a location for a returning westward move, but never had the planets align perfectly. On a previous trip, I did managed to catch a westward train, but we were late arriving and my angle was not what I’d hoped to get.

So, on that Friday in early November when we followed the freight west from Leola, I was keen on trying to intercept it crossing Greenfield Road from the classic angle.

FujiFilm XT-1 with 16-55mm lens, ISO 200.

Score this one to persistence (with a wee bit of good luck).

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