I realize I’m a bit late off the mark.

Last Friday, I finally captured my first action photos of Amtrak’s NextGen Acela on the move.

I wanted to photograph this high-speed train at full speed as it passed a landmark structure, so I set up an elevated vantage point across from the old Pennsylvania Railroad station in Newark, Delaware.

When the blue-white headlights of Acela service 2108 came into view, I was ready with my Z6. I set the motor drive to “H*” for a rapid sequence of images and dialed the shutter speed to 1/4000 of a second to freeze the action.

I fired off a burst as the sleek new high-speed train blitzed past.

Wow!

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