I've been busy but still managed to get by the site of the big BNSF oil train derailment to take a few shots. The 33 tankers are still there, lined up in an adjacent field. I've also been shooting some more dry plates in my 4x5, getting ready for the big Civil War re-enactment in Pipestone, MN next month.
1. Doon, IA. A s/b tanker train passes over the newly repaired section affected by the derailment. I couldn't read the red diamond placards, but this could well have been another oil train. The entire area smelled strongly of oil. The wreck caused all the brush to be cleared around this pool, and it would now make a great night shot! However, there are still a lot of workers around cleaning up the 160,000 gallons of spilled oil. My shot will have to wait.
2. Doon, IA. The dpu of the tanker train. Note all the oil soaked ground in the foreground, indicating how high the water was.
3. Doon, IA. Some of the 33 busted tankers sitting in a makeshift graveyard.
4. Sioux Falls, SD. The Falls of the Big Sioux River at flood stage. Photo taken with a Chamonix 4x5 camera, a c.1858 Derogy Petzval, and a Lane dry plate (ISO 2). This is exactly what you'd expect a photo taken in the 1850s to look like.
Kent in SD
