Eastern Railroad Discussion > Whiteout at Elkhorn Tunnel

While shooting at the west end of Elkhorn Tunnel on Monday afternoon, a snow squall moved in and dropped several inches of snow in a matter of 15 minutes. I was setup to shoot the head end of NS 82J passing under the N&W signal bridge but it was snowing so much that the photo turned out literally just solid white. As the train was passing I moved to the other side of the signals and pulled off this shot of the pushers going by. Photo taken with a Canon 5D Mark II - 1/40, f/2.8, ISO 4000.

Jeff Hawkins

http://www.railfirephotography.com
http://www.railsinvirginia.com

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Wow!

BobE

That would make a GREEAAAAT calendar shot!!!!!!

What ns1000 said. Beautiful shot. Thanks for sharing it.

Great photo! Kudos.

Posted from Android

Nice shot Jeff!

John Troxler

I like it!!!! Don't like the cold weather, but snow makes for some awsome pictures!!!

Real train in real weather as caught by a real rail fan.
Thanks.
Gonut

Once again, Epic photo, Jeff! You pulled off a hard shot to get and captured it to perfection. Great job, man!!!

Samuel Phillips
Radford, VA
Photography by Samuel Phillips

Thanks, guys. It was quite an experience.

Jeff Hawkins

One of the best shots I've seen lately - well done!

chris

Good shot, I can feel the wet stuff. I think some of the best shots come in the really bad weather. I'm interested to see such good results at such a high ISO.

Bob Wilcox
Charlottesville, VA
My Flickr Shots

Excellent shot! Very well done in some particularly challenging conditions.

Michael

Excellent piece of work.
—Mac

bobwilcox Wrote:
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> Good shot, I can feel the wet stuff. I think some
> of the best shots come in the really bad weather.
> I'm interested to see such good results at such a
> high ISO.

I appreciate all the kind remarks, thank you.

Bob - The Canon 5D Mark II does quite well at high ISO settings. In retrospect I should've bumped it up to 6400 ISO and increased my shutter speed to at least 1/60 or 1/80. However everything happened so fast that I was just extremely fortunate the shot turned out at all. The viewfinder was clogged with snow so I had to use the Live View feature to focus manually while hand holding the camera. Even the LCD screen was half covered with snow so I was really winging it on the focus and framing. We were huddled up against a relay box just trying to keep our wits about us during the whole ordeal. It's definitely an experience I'll never forget.

Jeff H.

Now that's a signal bridge (and signals) with character! Beautiful!

Does anyone know where Elkhorn tunnel is ??? Scooby

NS Pocahontas District

Posted from iPhone

Superb image. I agree - it's calendar quality. Honor is most certainly due.

Beautifully done, Jeff! looking forward to other photos from the trip!

Hank