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Hi everyone,
Here is one last image from contributor Chris Stewart, plus four of my own. The four shots I took are all of the same train. In 1994 when I started taking pictures of trains, I used to almost always try to take pictures of both sides of a locomotive for modelling purposes. Since then, I've become a bit less of a modeller, and more of a photographer, and in the transition, became much more selective about what I shoot. The most important element to a good photograph in my opinion is lighting, and I am addicted to sun-lit shots. It is not very often that I take a shot of both sides of a locomotive, much less a hot intermodal train! Fortunately, for a couple months of 1998, a double stack train regularly left Alliance Yard in Haslet, TX at about the right time of day to get a good shot of it going southwest into the sun, and then turning northwest into the sun in Saginaw on the old FW&D line. They may still run this train at this time, but there are not too many months in the year when you can take pictures with good light at 7:00pm. Enjoy! |
