{"id":21569,"date":"2018-07-10T08:40:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T12:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=21569"},"modified":"2018-07-10T08:36:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T12:36:41","slug":"amtrak-nose-glint-sleepers-and-a-waterfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/amtrak-nose-glint-sleepers-and-a-waterfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak, Nose Glint, Sleepers, and a Waterfall."},"content":{"rendered":"

This summer Amtrak 448\/449, the Boston section of the Lake Shore Limited, <\/em>is the only<\/em>section of the Lake Shore Limited!<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Construction at Penn-Station New York has encouraged Amtrak to cancel the New York section of this popular train, and reassign its Viewliner sleeps to the Boston section.<\/p>\n

A clear afternoon had me searching for locations. My first choice was the Tennyville Bridge in Palmer (Rt 32 bridge), but a large quantity of freight cars in Palmer yard discouraged me. My next choice was the field east of Palmer off Rt 67, but I vetoed this place because of excessive brush.<\/p>\n

Brush and trees are real problem this time of year along the old Boston & Albany. Not only do the obstruct views of the tracks, but they cast impenetrable dark shadows.<\/p>\n

So, I ended up at my standard fall back location at West Warren. Although, I\u2019ve photographed Amtrak 449 here dozens of times, it had several advantages.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a relatively short drive; it has elevation and an unobstructed view of the line from both sides of the tracks; its east-west orientation makes for nice early afternoon lighting; and the waterfall and mills make for an iconic and readily identifiable backdrop.<\/p>\n

So, West Warren it was. Again.<\/p>\n

I made this sequence with my FujiFilm X-T1 with 27mm pancake lens.<\/p>\n

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West Warren, Massachusetts is an iconic location on the old Boston & Albany.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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By the time Amtrak train 449 reached me, the sun had crossed over to the northside of the tracks. Notice the unfortunate\u00a0nose-glint’ reflecting off the front of the engine. I tempered this in post processing with an adjustment to the highlight-level.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Here’s the three Viewliner sleepers at the back of the train.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two difficulties; the nosy angle of the sun made it difficult to get an acceptable broad side angle on the train, so the three sleepers at the back are visually marginalized. Secondly, the wedge angle of the Amtrak P42 front-end kicked back the sun with harsh ‘nose glint’.<\/p>\n

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This summer Amtrak 448\/449, the Boston section of the Lake Shore Limited, is the onlysection of the Lake Shore Limited! \u00a0Construction at Penn-Station New York has encouraged Amtrak to cancel the New York section of this popular train, and reassign its Viewliner sleeps to the Boston section. A clear afternoon had me searching for locations. … Continue reading Amtrak, Nose Glint, Sleepers, and a Waterfall.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[4792,31,41,35,84],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Amtrak_449_CSX_BA_line_West_Warren_DSCF0108.jpg?fit=3464%2C2309","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5BT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21569"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21574,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21569\/revisions\/21574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}