Western Railroad Discussion > Reworking some weird fog

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

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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)

Nice shot, Lance!

Randy Lundgren
Elgin, TX

Great photo my friend

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY

Oh, SNAP! That's fantastic!

Russ

You did well on that shot Lance!

Larry

Wow ! That is all kinds of
cool !

Posted from Android

Lance, super work! Thanks for sharing.

Paul Brennecke
Golden, CO