{"id":22912,"date":"2018-11-29T09:04:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T14:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=22912"},"modified":"2018-11-29T10:17:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T15:17:33","slug":"new-mexico-revisited-soaking-in-bnsfs-transcon-on-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/new-mexico-revisited-soaking-in-bnsfs-transcon-on-the-move\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico Revisited: Soaking in BNSF\u2019s Transcon on the Move."},"content":{"rendered":"

It had been more than 20 years since my last visit to New Mexico. This was my first by rail.<\/p>\n

I was on my way east with Dave and Rhonda Swirk and Derek Palmieri of New Hampshire\u2019s Conway Scenic Railroad, documenting \u00a0Budd Vista-Dome Silver Splendor <\/em>on its journey from Los Angeles to its new home in New Hampshire\u2019s White Mountains.<\/p>\n

As we glided east at the head-end of Amtrak number 4 theSouthwest Chief,<\/em>we met or overtook dozens of freights, many of them intermodal trains, on BNSF\u2019s former Santa Fe Transcon.<\/p>\n

Wow, BNSF sure runs a lot of freight!<\/p>\n

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Dave Swirk enjoys breakfast near Gallup, New Mexico. Exposed using a FujiFIlm XT1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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View from Silver Splendor near the Arizona-New Mexico state line.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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BNSF westward freight near the Gallup, NM station .FujiFilm XT1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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BNSF eastward freight as seen east of Gallup. Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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BNSF’s former Santa Fe has several long sections of split alignments, where mainline tracks are not adjacent. A westward freight can be seen off in the distance to the north of Amtrak No. 4. Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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BNSF westward intermodal freight. FujiFilm XT1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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BNSF westward intermodal freight. FujiFilm XT1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Amtrak No.4 paused at Marmon, NM for traffic to clear. FujiFilm XT1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I exposed these photos digitally using my Lumix LX7 and FujiFilm XT1.<\/p>\n

Part of the challenge of making photos of trains from the train is trying to compose while in motion of moving subjects. Not only does this make if difficult to level the camera, but it leads to motion blur and other potential defects.<\/p>\n

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It had been more than 20 years since my last visit to New Mexico. This was my first by rail. I was on my way east with Dave and Rhonda Swirk and Derek Palmieri of New Hampshire\u2019s Conway Scenic Railroad, documenting \u00a0Budd Vista-Dome Silver Splendor on its journey from Los Angeles to its new home … Continue reading New Mexico Revisited: Soaking in BNSF\u2019s Transcon on the Move.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22920,"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":[48],"tags":[3877,5004,4999,820,792,7535,879,620],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BNSF_freight_eb_from_Dome_east_of_Gallup_NM_P1790657-1.jpg?fit=3462%2C2310","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5Xy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22912"}],"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=22912"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22932,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22912\/revisions\/22932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}