{"id":1277,"date":"2013-02-08T23:45:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T04:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2013-02-09T00:03:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T05:03:37","slug":"florida-east-coast-417-in-the-snow-at-palmer-february-22-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/florida-east-coast-417-in-the-snow-at-palmer-february-22-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida East Coast 417 in the snow at Palmer, February 22, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Artificial light illuminates the snow at New England Central\u2019s Palmer, Massachusetts<\/a> yard office on the evening of February 22, 2011. How much snow covers the yard tonight? And how much will be there by Saturday morning (February 9, 2013)? Exposed with Lumix<\/a> LX-3 on a Bogen tripod. Set on aperture priority mode, f3.5 at ISO 80, with a plus 1 stop override to compensate for snow and artificial lights. If I’d allowed the camera to pick the exposure without compensation, an underexposed (dark) image would have resulted.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tonight (February 8, 2013) a blizzard rages outside the window. The roads are closed, the railroad is quiet (so far as I know), and I\u2019m not out, knee-deep in snow, trying to make night photos. (Ok, so I\u2019m as mad as hatter, or worse\u2014used to be lots of hatters here in Monson, back in the day.) However, I pulled up an image from my digital archive of Florida East Coast<\/a> GP40-2 417 at New England Central\u2019s Palmer Yard office on February 22, 2011. There\u2019s something incongruous about a Florida East Coast locomotive in the snow. I\u2019d met Bob Buck of Tucker\u2019s Hobbies that evening for dinner, and later we\u2019d stopped by Palmer yard to see what was about.<\/p>\n

Since that night, nearly two years ago, New England Central has applied its own lettering to several former Florida East Coast locomotives; Bob has passed on; and New England Central has become part of the Genesee & Wyoming<\/a> short line railway empire. Everything changes.<\/span><\/p>\n

For more about how to make better night photos digitally see:\u00a0Lumix LX-3\u2014part 2: \u00a0Existing Light Digital Night Shots<\/a><\/p>\n

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