{"id":39249,"date":"2024-06-05T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=39249"},"modified":"2024-06-05T08:05:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T12:05:40","slug":"deluge-at-thompsontown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/deluge-at-thompsontown\/","title":{"rendered":"Deluge at Thompsontown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thunderstorms from the west closed in on us as we drove east toward Thompsontown, Pa., on state highway 333.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was raining so hard, I could barely see where we were driving. Seamus-the-Dog slept in the back of the car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“What’s that yellow light?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I think it’s a signal . . . no wait . . .it’s a headlight!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We pulled over near Norfolk Southern control point SIP 143.5 on the Pittsburgh Line at Thompsontown just as a westward intermodal train glided through the deluge unimpeded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I stopped the car, ran to the back an opened the rear hatch. This provided me a modicum of shelter long enough to photograph the train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was some of the hardest rain I’ve ever seen. It was coming down more than 2 inches an hour and the road was beginning to flood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I set my ISO to 1000, and exposed this sequence with my Nikon Z6 with 70-200mm lens. You can see the individual rain drops in the enlarged images. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nikon Z6 with 70-200mm lens set at 200mm. F2.8, 1\/500th second, ISO 1000 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Greatly enlarged section of the above photo. Notice the rain droplets.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I got completely soaked but did my best to keep the camera from getting total drenched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was raining too hard to drive, so we waited in the car for until the rain let up. It wasn’t long before we spied another light in the distance . . . . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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