Coming Home (Major Tom?)

by Aaron Hockley

Tonight I was able to take at least one halfway-decent picture after work, and one that’s just kind of an interesting subject. The weather here was bright sunny and beautiful until noon and then gradually got cloudier and cloudier, terminating in a nice bunch of gray sky and darkness around 5:30. Good thing I snuck out a bit early from work to take a photo.

My mission was fall colors. But first, the little switcher at the Columbia Business Park:

Onto colors… I drove several places without finding any before ending up somewhere that I had never shot a train. I think I ended up doing ok (at least worth saving) don’t you? Sure the lighting sucked, but I managed to pull off something halfway decent at ISO 400. I also shot a BNSF manifest on his tail (M-EVEPAS) but in the 5 minutes it took him to get there, the light had gone all to crap. So I give you… Amtrak 28:

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