| By: | Philip M. Goldstein |
| Dates: | 10/7/2024 - 10/7/2024 |
| Album Info: | It was either do "head on" shots like everyone else, or broadside. With the train heading northbound, the nose of the locomotive would be back lit by the sun, and therefore dark.
I chose broadside with the wide anlge lens. Actually, I have my boy Joe LoGiudice run the a900 camera with the 28-75, while I worked my a99V with my 70-400 F4-5.6 in video mode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpvFlObgNZM
I've been itching to see what that body / lens combo could do on video, and damn if I'm not impressed.
To do this, I needed to find a location sufficiently away from the tracks and illuminated on the west side by the afternoon sun.
Several years ago, Deb & I went to pick up some commercially de-certified fire extinguishers - I remembered this field but was not too certain where..
Searching on Google Maps, I located it at the northwest intersection of Lometa Lane and Old Highway 6 in the neighborhood of Lake Millican Estates.
Listening to the scanner, when it hit the
MP 59.5 defect detector, there was integrity failure, train speed 6 miles an hour, 75 axles and the temperature 20 degrees. Yeah, I think it's safe to say that defect detector needs a tune up.
UP
Gulf Coast Service Unit
Navasota Subdivision
MP 53.87 - Lometa Lane gc
Millican, Texas, USA - 14:25 CDT
UP P-HOFW-07
(nb Passenger / Office Car Special
Houston, Texas to
Bryan, Texas)
UP 4014 [ALCo 4-8-8-4]
UP 814 "Joe Jordan"
UP 810 "Jim Adams"
UP 9625 (revenue pool locomotive)
UPP 6334 "Art Lockman"
UPP 209 "Howard Fogg"
UPP 5714 "Lynn Nystrom"
UPP 202 "Willie James"
UPP 2055 generator car
UPP 5817 "Pony Express"
UPP 200 "Omaha"
UPP 5752 "Promontory"
UPP 9005 "Walter Dean"
UPP 5011 "City of Denver"
UPP 101 "Lincoln"
all images: © 2024 ~ Phantastic Pherroequinology / Philip M. Goldstein |
