{"id":32645,"date":"2022-01-09T08:42:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T13:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=32645"},"modified":"2022-01-09T08:42:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T13:42:54","slug":"sun-snow-and-shadows-at-attitash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/sun-snow-and-shadows-at-attitash\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun, Snow and Shadows at Attitash."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday, I was up early to help prepare for Conway Scenic Railroad’s first Snow Trains of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’d arranged a two-hourly interval schedule, based on a 930am boarding for the first train at North Conway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was clear and cold with a blue polarized sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I traveled with the head-end crew on the first two trains, and used the layover at Attitash as an opportunity to make photographs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since there is no run around track at the Attitash Whistle Stop, Conway Scenic Railroad operates the train ‘top and tailed’ (to borrow a British phrase) with locomotives at each end of the train. GP38 252 was positioned at the westend, GP38 255 at the east. The locomotives are not operated in multiple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After arrival at Attitash, the head-end crew cuts out the westward locomotive, then sets up the engine at the eastend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My visual challenge is the high contrast situation at Attitash caused by bright sun on fresh snow and inky shadows. Complicating matter was slight back lighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, my Nikon Z6 has great exposure latitude, which facilitates post processing adjustment to help mitigate the harsh lighting situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made more conventional images of the east end of the train at North Conway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
First 2022 Snow Train at Attitash.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
First 2022 Snow Train at Attitash.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
First 2022 Snow Train at Attitash.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Mascot fireman.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
GP38 255 on the Snow Train at North Conway.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
GP38 252 on the Snow Train at North Conway.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I was up early to help prepare for Conway Scenic Railroad’s first Snow Trains of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","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":[],"tags":[5781,4810,5754,5806,6152,7535,7536],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CSRR_252_W_Snow_Train_at_Attitash_DSC_2313.jpg?fit=1500%2C943","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-8ux","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32645"}],"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=32645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32652,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32645\/revisions\/32652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}