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Saturday night, Kris again suggested we head out to find a freight train on the move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since we scored a loaded coal train on Norfolk Southern’s Port Road Branch at Washington Boro, Pa. last week, I thought that would be a good place to start. As we arrived at the intersection of Rt999 and Water Street, I heard a whistle. We could see a distant headlight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Westbound!” Now that was good timing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We drove west on Water Street toward Columbia, staying a good distance ahead of the train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We pulled up near old Cola tower, where I had enought time to set the Nikon Z7-II to ‘M’ (manual), attach it to the tripod, level out the camera and frame up the scene, while setting the sensitivity to ISO4000 and adjusting the shutter speed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then the headlight came into view. It was a Norfolk Southern tank train, possibly an empty ethanol move? Kris counted 93 cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made a sequence of images with the camera set at f4.5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This selection was processed using DxO PureRaw to eliminate the effects of lens vignetting and reduce pixelization from the high ISO setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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