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Western Railroad Discussion > Reworking some weird fogDate: 12/07/18 02:35 Reworking some weird fog Author: santafe199 Imagine this scenario: Red & Silver diesel power sits in night time repose in front of the Santa Fe passenger station in Newton, Kansas. Sound familiar? It does if you’re of a certain age. And it’s a scene that only occurred untold thousands of times during the long & glorious history of Santa Fe’s proud passenger colors. But no, it’s not 1953. It’s 6 full decades into the future in the year 2013. And things have changed just a bit! Amtrak has been operating passenger trains in these here parts for over 4 decades now. The once bee-hive busy passenger station, which once upon a time serviced over 2 dozen scheduled passenger trains every 24 hours is but a ghost of its former self, merely hosting 2 daily trains. And the Red & Silver is faded dressing for an inert diesel well into the down-slope of its existence. The Warbonnet passenger livery it wears is but a throwback to earlier Santa Fe glory. It was brought back the late 1980s by (then) Santa Fe president Mike Haverty.
About 1 AM on January 28, 2013 I was en route to meet with long time friend & fellow TO member Bob Helling (‘PRose’ then, ‘GTbend’, now) in Newton, KS. During the drive I ran into a weird heavy fog that just followed me right on into town. Bob & I were in Newton to greet TO member Bob Finan (ATSF100West) who was arriving on Amtrak #4. Two days later PRose would be working the final day of his 40+ year career with Union Pacific up in Salina, KS. Along with a small party of family and other friends ATSF100West and I would be on hand to participate in the observance of this milestone event. Between 1:30 & nearly 3:00 AM on that January morning I captured some very interesting tripod-assisted, available light, time exposure images. The fog was as weirdly colored as it was thick. It had a heavy surreal red-orange quality to it I had never seen before. I must have shot 20-30 images of a substantial group of stored BNSF engines. I selected a trio and after some photo-editing got them posted for ‘Toto Tuesday’ on the Western forum. Here is a link: ( https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,2980600,2980600#msg-2980600 ). Six years later I have a wee bit more experience with Photoshop, so I thought I’d take a somewhat different approach with another one of the images. I diluted that red-orange into something more yellowish, while trying to enhance the Red nose of BNSF 637. For composition considerations I removed some of the utility poles and darkened the ground which refused to give up it’s red-orange color tinged with a slight nuke-green cast from the ambient light. I kinda like the result, so here it is… 1. Red & Silver BNSF 637 in storage in Newton, KS in the wee hours of January 28, 2013. Thanks for looking back again! Lance Garrels santafe199 Date: 12/07/18 05:03 Re: Reworking some weird fog Author: GTbend Great Shot. remember this morning. 3 and 4 were both OT. They met at the west end of the yard at Newton. ATSF100West was on No. 4 that morning. It was a warrm (for January) balmy foggy morning. We got three inches of snow a couple days later. Welcome to Kansas.
Bob Helling GTbend (New Name) Date: 12/07/18 06:02 Re: Reworking some weird fog Author: texchief1 Nice shot, Lance!
Randy Lundgren Elgin, TX Date: 12/07/18 06:33 Re: Reworking some weird fog Author: Bob3985 Great photo my friend
Bob Krieger Cheyenne, WY Date: 12/07/18 07:44 Re: Reworking some weird fog Author: NSTopHat Oh, SNAP! That's fantastic!
Russ Date: 12/07/18 10:02 Re: Reworking some weird fog Author: Ritzville You did well on that shot Lance!
Larry Date: 12/07/18 18:56 Re: Reworking some weird fog Author: trainman Wow ! That is all kinds of
cool ! Posted from Android Date: 12/07/18 19:40 Re: Reworking some weird fog Author: grandroad Lance, super work! Thanks for sharing.
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