{"id":41868,"date":"2025-06-04T06:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41868"},"modified":"2025-06-04T07:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T11:38:08","slug":"dusk-at-greenfield-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/dusk-at-greenfield-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Dusk at Greenfield Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At times of stress and when sadness threatens to obscure my focus, I’ve often turned to railroad photography as welcome distraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other night on our way back from Fox Meadows Creamery in Leola, Kris suggested we detour via Greenfield Road: “Maybe we’ll see the local freight.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On our way, we spotted the headlights of a GP38-2 illuminating the catenary masts of the former Pennsylvania Railroad, and sure enough, Norfolk Southern’s night local was making its drop to High Steel Structures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burning fusees warned motorists that the train was blocking the road. This job often has locomotives a both ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While some of the highway traffic was less than impressed by seeing the freight at work, we were delighted. I made a selection of photos using my FujiFilm XT1 with 12mm Touit. Although I had my tripod, I opted to make these photos handheld using high ISO. I converted the Fuji RAW RAW files in to DNG format using DxO PureRaw, then cropped and adjusted contrast, color and exposure in Adobe Lightroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, I exposed a few photos with my Lumix LX7, but I’ll save those for a later post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ISO 3200, f2.8 1\/15sec.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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ISO 1600, f2.8 1\/15sec.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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ISO 3200, f2.8 1\/15sec.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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