Steam & Excursion > UP 4014, Denver North Yard November 2019

Here I sit in the foot or more of frozen precipitation profiling my favorite Big Boy in heavy snow this is a bucket list thing. .
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Otto Perry among others in the past took this sort of thing for granted. The moment my friend Tim Tonge a weather scientist from Castle Rock told me on Sunday the weather was going to be blizzard conditions on 4014’s return home it was an at-all-costs must work this, and to the absolute best of my ability. You don’t miss this. It was an all out effort to stop every conceivable snow flake and bring the black mass of iron through the blue white subdued light. Sitting in the snow at this point up to my waste and coming down at 2” an hour or more it was absolutely what I live for. I almost didn’t shoot; I wanted to witness this with the naked eye and not through some OVF. 
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Black and White Out in oil and steam


Just FYI: This image is being used by several Meta Facebook “Pirate groups” and “pirates”, “criminals” to sell it on puzzles and other swag. I did NOT give a license to these criminals, Meta will not remove the ads despite my efforts outside Meta as a non-member of Facebook. I hope you don’t buy from these criminals as I don’t offer any of my work as t-shirts, puzzles, and other trinkets. 

 

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Nice shot and I feel the Brrr.  

I'm thinking to myself, 'Oh crap.  That flying white stuff is coming soon enough for those of us lucky enough to live in a cold area of the country.'

WOW!

Bob Phelps
Micanopy, FL

Well actually I do offer it now, on my Fine Art America account here:

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/steam-train-in-snowy-landscape-erik-lindgren.html?newartwork=true

An absolute historic and photographic gem!
Bob

Wonderful image! There is something magical about a steam locomotive operating in a snow storm.

Great winter scene; well done!
GK

Very nice..!!

Thanks fellas!