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Houston, Texas—3200 ISO at f2.8

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The sun had set on Amtrak’s Sunset Limited before we arrived at Houston, Texas last week.

This was the end of my most recent Amtrak journey.

These days catching a 800-series Amtrak P40 working a long distance train is a rare find! I was delighted to make a few photos of this antique when we arrived at Houston, having traveled behind it from New Orleans.


Amtrak 45 and 837 lead train number 1, the Sunset Limited at Houston, Texas.


The Sunset at night. Notice the classic private cars to the left of Amtrak. Tom Kline reports that these are owned by Patrick Henry who runs this company h
ttp://www.phcp.com/index.html The cars are named for Patrick’s dad and mom.

I made these photos with my FujiFilm XT1 with 12mm Zeiss Touit set at ISO 3200.

Shutter speed was about 1/13thof a second.

I made some minor adjustments to shadow and highlight detail in post processing.

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Amtrak Sunset at Beaumont, Texas.

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Sunset Sunsets Part 3.

This was a long stop with a crew change; the New Orleans crew exchanged for a crew to take the train to San Antonio.

I had about ten minutes to wander around and make photos before we were westward bound again.

These views were exposed digitally using my FujiFilm XT1 with Zeiss Touit lens.

What amazed me was how quickly the sun sets in Texas in December. Not long after the train was underway again, I noticed the sky was completely dark.

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Amtrak at Lafayette, Louisiana—Monday December 17, 2018.

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Traveling on Amtrak’s Sunset Limited on our way from New Orleans to Houston, the train made a long station stop at Lafayette, Louisiana.

Well it was long enough for me to get out for a few minutes and expose a few photos.

It was 22 years and 11 months ago that I gave a lecture in Lafayette. That was my last visit here, and it seems like a lifetime ago.

Photos were exposed with my FujiFilm XT1 with 12mm Zeiss Touit lens, adjusted in Lightroom for contrast and saturation.

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Six Sunset (Limited) Views: New Orleans and Mississippi River.

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Departing New Orleans, I settled in Amtrak’s glass-lined observation lounge.

Here I made photos as we navigated the maze of trackage on both sides of the massive Huey P. Long bridge over the Mississippi River.

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New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal

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NOUPT serves Amtrak’s City of New Orleans, Crescent, and tri-weekly Sunset Limitedplus the seasonal train ride styled as the Polar Express.It’s also the city’s bus terminal.

This station was among the very last city terminals constructed during the era when the private railroads ran their own passenger trains.

Only ticketed Amtrak passengers were permitted onto the railroad platforms.

Here are few views exposed the other day.


Amtrak’s Polar Express train ride-set.

Amtrak’s Polar Express train ride-set.
Amtrak’s Polar Express train ride-set on left; Sunset Limited on right. File adjusted for contrast and highlight and shadow detail maximization.

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