Norfolk Southern’s H28 was on the roll east on the New Holland Branch.

I arrived at my pre-selected location just as the lights began to flash.

My hope was to place the stream in the foreground to break up the scene while balancing the train with trees at the left. I was focused on my compositional ratios.

Beautiful over-the-shoulder morning winter sun made for excellent lighting conditions. I made a few digital images and exposed some color slides with the Leica M4.

When I downloaded the digital images, I discovered to my dismay that at the time of exposure I’d failed to notice the bit of red trash in the tree branches. Poor show!

The film remains latent. I hope the slides have better composition.

Tracking the Light explores the successes and failures of individual railroad images.