{"id":44337,"date":"2026-05-27T06:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=44337"},"modified":"2026-05-26T22:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:10:23","slug":"safe-harbor-take-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/safe-harbor-take-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Safe Harbor Take 19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As regular TTL readers may recognize, I’ve been working on this location for a while now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few weeks back, we picked up a southward Norfolk Southern coal train rolling along the Port Road Branch and followed it to the bridges at Safe Harbor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We arrived with a few minutes to spare, so in the darkness I aimed to improve my angle on the tracks. Previous nocturnal views had unfortunately featured a wire, and this annoyed me, so I located a tighter view without the wire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Safe Harbor Dam is out of sight on the far side of the bridges, but the dam’s lighting provides a halo that helps to illuminate the train on the bridge while enabling a silhouette, which I like. While the evening mist along the Susquehanna enables the ‘laser-beam’ headlight effect. Too much backlight and the laser effect would be lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exposed using my Nikon Z6-III mirrorless digital camera with f1.8 50mm lens. Exposure f1.8 at 1\/100th ISO 40,000, processed with DxO PureRaw5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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