Robert’s slideshow this weekend went well, with several excellent presentations (and a few that were a bit lacking, but such is life). Attendance was good and I got to chat with and catch up with several friends who I only get to see a few times each year at similar events. We had a decent couple days of railfanning, with mostly gray and cloudy weather so probably not many calendar shots.
Eventually I’ll get around to looking at my photos and perhaps post a few.
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I stopped trackside for a few minutes today at lunch and found a new photo angle down at the depot. I screwed up the shot by not using my monopod, mistakenly thinking I could handhold my 300m F4L with the 1.4x teleconverter on it. It’s a textbook lesson why a photographer should have a monopod or tripod, and use it anytime they can. Why didn’t I use it today? Laziness. I figured ah, why bother getting it out for one shot. Anyway, the vertical alignment was botched so I’ll have to shoot it again another day.
This weekend is Robert‘s big annual slideshow and foaming shindig up in Centralia. Steve and I are set for an 0700 departure, railfanning our way north and hopefully getting a few decent shots throughout the day before the show. We’re spending the night up there and railfanning our way back home on Sunday. Right now the weather forecast is for crappy with intermittant shitty. Oh well.
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No pictures today, but I did see a few trains. I started out down at 8th street where a grain train was being recrewed. Power was three H2 Dash 9 units (BNSF 5470, 4827, 5372).
As I drove up to the center, one of the yard jobs was shoving a sizable cut of cars (30-ish) down over the hill around 5mph and consequently tying up everything. The dispatcher did a good job of poising things to get moving once he cleared, and once he was off the diamonds the next two movements started coming through: a northbound UP stack train (UP 3822, 4018, 4371) and a short cut of cars that needed to pull out from the middle lead and to the back track. After a few minutes the Camas turn returned and got held up at 8th street.
I drove up to the shops and found some variety… BNSF 877, 5175, 345, and RLMX 8595. Sitting at 39th street was the H-EVEBAR9 with BNSF 4742, 4664, and 795. And back to work I went.
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A new type of active warning system?
Shot October 15, 2005 at Ridgefield South, BNSF Seattle Sub.
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