BNSF 912 (a General Electric C40-8W) and several dozen other locomotives await their fate as scrap in the Galveston Yard. They will be replaced with high-efficiency, low-emission locomotives. I was in Galveston a few days before and saw the awesome light on some of the locomotives at sunset and knew I had to go back to photograph them.Date: 4 January 2021Location: Galveston, Texas, United StatesOriginal resolution: 45 MPProcessing: Processed from RAW using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 9
The funeral train of President George H. W. Bush was the first since President Dwight D. Eisenhower. I drove out Texas Highway FM 2154 between Navasota and Millican, where I found this curve on which to photograph the train. In retrospect, there were many other compositions I might have tried for this train, but basically, I got one shot at it, and this was it.Date: 6 December 2018Location: Navasota, Texas, United StatesOriginal resolution: 20 MPProcessing: Processed from RAW using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic CC 8
I tried to chase and get ahead of Union Pacific 4014 from College Station to Waller. I walked up and down a couple of blocks in Waller until I finally settled on this position, diagonal to a warehouse. The warehouse offered the advantage of blocking out traffic on the highway on the opposite side. It also provides some interesting texture to the photo.One other interesting opportunity provided by the warehouse is that it makes the photo a bit timeless. Unless you know a lot of specifics about thie composition of this train (like when the water tenders were built), you can't really determine in which time period this photo was taken (of course, being a digital photo does narrow it down).UP 4014 is the only operating model of the twenty-five Big Boy 4-8-8-4 single-expansion steam locomotives built by American Locomotive Company (ALCO) for hauling freight through the Wasatch Range. At about 132 feet in length with its tender and 600 tons of weight, its the largest steam locomotive ever built.Date: 16 August 2021Location: Waller, Texas, United StatesOriginal resolution: 45 MPProcessing: Processed from RAW using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 10
CPKC 2816 The Empress | 25 May 2024 | Bellaire, Texas, United States | Nikon Z8 | 45 MP | Processed from RAW using Adobe Lightroom 13
I knew Union Pacific 4014, the Big Boy, would pass by Texas A&M University on its way from Hearne to Hemphil and then on to Houston. I knew the tracks ran by Kyle Field, so I wondered if there was a good location to photograph both the locomotive and the stadium. It turns out that the Student Recreation Center across the street has a nice pavillion overlooking the stadium, and by coincidence, the railroad tracks.According to a UP engineer who was taking photos on the pavillion, the folks waving from the cab are the Mayor of College Station and his wife.Date: 16 August 2021Location: College Station, Texas, United StatesOriginal resolution: 36 MPProcessing: Processed from RAW using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 10
Date: 4 January 2021Location: Galveston, Texas, United StatesOriginal resolution: 45 MPProcessing: Processed from RAW using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 9
Date: 4 January 2021Location: Galveston, Texas, United StatesOriginal resolution: 45 MPProcessing: Processed from RAW using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 9
Date: 4 January 2021Location: Galveston, Texas, United StatesOriginal resolution: 45 MPProcessing: Processed from RAW using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 9
Date: 4 January 2021Location: Galveston, Texas, United StatesOriginal resolution: 45 MPProcessing: Processed from RAW using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 9
We were driving from Amarillo to Caprock Canyons State Park and nearing Claude when I spotted this intermodal consist waiting to pass on a siding. I decided to find a spot along the tracks in Claude to take a photo. It was moving pretty fast by the time it passed through town. I managed to capture a classic wedge shot in front of the grain silos.Date: 16 March 2017Location: Claude, Texas, United StatesOriginal resolution: 36 MPProcessing: Processed from RAW using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 9
We were planning to photograph the east portal of the historic and infamous Hoosac Tunnel (known as the Bloody Pit after its construction) when a native of North Adams told us how to get to the west portal. The west portal has a rather ugly winter weather door framing it now, but we decided to take the side trip As we approached the portal, several people were wandering around the tunnel entrance and going a few feet inside. Looking down the tunnel, however, I saw a dim light well down the tunnel. At first, I thought it was someone crazy enough to walk back into the tunnel. I soon realized, however, that the light was slowly resolving into the signature three-light triangle of a locomotive, and I could hear the echo of air brakes. I quickly set up my tripod and started to focus on the light. Because of the lack of contrast in the tunnel, I had to focus manually, and then pull focus as the train slowly made its way toward me. This shot was the best of the group, in my opinion, because the illuminated interior of the tunnel shows a richness of detail.Date: 10 October 2016Location: North Adams, Massachusetts, United StatesOriginal resolution: 36 MPProcessing: Processed from RAW using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC 2015
Date: 3 November 2008Location: Fannin County, Georgia, United StatesOriginal resolution: 6 MPProcessing: Processed from RAW using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6GNRR 8704, an EMD GP18, pulls a Blue Ridge Railroad excursion train on Georgia Northeastern track south of the grade crossing at Curtis Switch Road on its way north to McCayesville from Blue Ridge.
We had stopped at the old Union Pacific depot in Cheyenne and saw the I-180 bridge over the yard. I decided to walk up the bridge's sidewalk and see if I could get a good photo of the yard. The bridge has a high chain-link fence on each side, and to make matters worse, the grid pattern is small to keep people from dropping or throwing objects onto passing trains. I tried a wide-aperture to put the fence out of the focal plane and was able to get a decent shot.Date: 4 August 2018Location: Cheyenne, Wyoimng, United StatesOriginal resolution: 36 MPProcessing: Processed from RAW using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic CC 7
