Western Railroad Discussion > Route 66 evening

BNSF ES44DC 7708 works upgrade eastbound across old US 66 at Williams, AZ on a late summer evening.

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Excellent my friend, EXCELLENT!!!

Nice photo. Great sky colors. I have to admit, I like the bridge more than the Locomotive personally.
Did you use some floods or car headlight on either side?
Thanks for posting.
Dave

Yeah, that is a good picture! Dang good picture. I too like the Santa Fe underpass featured a bit more than the loco.

Con

Please tell us more about the lightning? Did you use two off camera strobes?
Nice shot but curious on particulars, I have been increasing the number of strobes I have (now have 3 SB-800s, 1 SB-28) and pondering very strongly PocketWizards to wirelessly trigger for just this type of lighting.

Fantastic image. I've spent many wonderful hours along the Santa in this territory and have driven under this bridge many times.

James

skyview Wrote:
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> Please tell us more about the lightning? Did you
> use two off camera strobes?

I've been dying to get the old Lumedyne out and blind Photobob again!
Have not experimented with digital and painting with light. Anyone here doing this???

dmaffei Wrote:
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> Have not experimented with digital and painting
> with light. Anyone here doing this???

Works like a charm - cheaper and lighter then Lumidynes,
too. You loose a smidge of contrast but the scene appears
more realistic in most cases. It's rather amazing what
you can do with $15.00 now.

/Mitch


Excellent shot, BTW.

It sure is refreshing to see this after seeing what seems like 1000 photos of fake steam and Pennsy E units staged at night on railpics. Awesome photo, John.

Take Care,
Alex Ramos

alex14ramos Wrote:
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> It sure is refreshing to see this after seeing
> what seems like 1000 photos of fake steam and
> Pennsy E units staged at night on railpics.
> Awesome photo, John.
>
> Take Care,
> Alex Ramos

I only counted 17 total "fake steam" and posed PRR E's,
which is odd, as there were many patrons at all 3 events;
Steamtown, Strasburg and the Railroad Museum of PA. I
don't know if I've seen any on TO's.

I was expecting, and still hoping for more.

BTW - if you were there for the Big Boy steam shoot, you'd
have been impressed - it looked close to the real deal!

While watching (and enjoying) the nostalgia, I got to wondering
why no one in the West is doing similar - PRR E's, Erie E's,
NYC F's on Metra, Reading F's (finally), ect. More curious as
to why shortlines in the West have not bought "toys" to "play"
with as they have in the East on routine (vrs single one time
events).

/Mitch

Mgoldman Wrote:
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> While watching (and enjoying) the nostalgia, I got
> to wondering why no one in the West is doing similar

Good question.

I've come to the conclusion that the East coast photogs are a bit more progressive.
Just look at some of photos from the steam board...Outstanding

Mitch,
Can you elaborate more on your painting with light techniques?

BEAUTIFUL John!
JB

Railroad photography at its best!

Fred Harrison
Central Point, OR
CORPpower/JSS/EORS

Love that shot...I drive under that bridge whenever I go to and from Flagstaff to back Home, Home of course being Williams...I do wish we could get the full wording restored on that Bridge.

alex14ramos Wrote:
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> It sure is refreshing to see this after seeing
> what seems like 1000 photos of fake steam and
> Pennsy E units staged at night on railpics.
> Awesome photo, John.

I see Nothing wrong with the fake steam and staged E-Units... I actually thought it's rather ingenious to see those loco's "hot" again. That's how they recreate the past...Our Group just so happens to use WD-40 and very large Flying Rio Grande Magnets...

-William Diehl

It kinda has that Train Sim look to it !

Excellent photo.

Looks like an HDR image to me. Nice job.

Beautiful shot John!! Simply beautiful!!

Question.....

I spent about two hours standing at this bridge around three years ago trying to get just a "naked" shot of the bridge with no vehicle traffic in the image, and I could swear that at that time all the lettering was intact on the bridge, albeit much more faded. Now granted, with age my memory isn't what it used to be, but has the bridge been touched-up recently? The Santa Fe words and logo seem to look a lot better than my memory is telling me they were a few years back. If I had a clue as to where the shot is in my office, I'd find it for myself and look, but.....

Anyone?????

Soo Line Hoghead

As others have stated, excellent photo. An eye stopper for sure. Thanks for posting this one.

Jimmy B

Very very cool! I need to get over there and get a lucky shot like that too!

That is a great photo. In response to the "East vs. West" photogs--We here in the west don't need to fake steam. We have 4449, 700, 3751, 844, 3985, 261, 2816, 2860 and many smaller locomotives which make REAL steam.