UPS Trains
All the major railroads carry freight for the United Parcel Service (UPS), a lot of freight, especially during the Christmas shopping season. UPS trains are given a high priority, often forcing other trains onto sidings to let them pass. The railroad with the best on-time UPS performance gets bragging rights through the next Christmas season. The cargo is carried in trailers on flat cars (tofc). UPS calls the trailers "feeders," they call the brown trucks that deliver to your house "package cars."
Norfolk Southern 62A: The tractor train
Norfolk Southern's 62a (AKA the "tractor train" or the "John Deere train") is a popular target for RR photographers. It carries John Deere, Case, and New Holland equipment, often on a long picturesque string of identical cars, to Baltimore for export. By the time it gets to my neck of the woods (Maryland), it's always night.
Too dark, too grainy? Perish the thought
My main goal with night photography is to produce an image that looks like what you would see if you were standing beside me. I'm not big on timed exposures or flash photography, or even tripods.
I also like to see how far I can push my equipment before the images start falling apart. I'm still not quite sure where the line is. (Some of the above photos are from my other site "Nightening," which include non-railroad themes.)
Of course, the way technology is advancing, this all may be a moot point in a few years, but in the meantime, it's a fun thing to play with.
Linking the Keys
(Text: Library of Congress) On January 22, 1912, the nearly twenty thousand residents of the city of Key West, Florida, located on a small island some 128 miles south of the Florida peninsula, observed the completion of an overseas rail connection to the mainland. The Florida East Coast Railway served the island until 1935, when it was destroyed by a hurricane. It was replaced in 1938 by the Overseas Highway, built on the foundation of the old railroad bed. This system of forty-two bridges, which connects the Florida Keys to the mainland, is one of the longest over-water roads in the world. Continued
Union Pacific: Logan, NM
Trestle located in Logan, New Mexico, over the Canadian River - just a short drive north of Tucumcari, on U.S. Route 54.
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