My wife and I went out for a drive here in the Texas Panhandle yesterday, We saw two trains between Claude and Clarendon, on the ex- Fort Worth & Denver/BN line from Amarillo to Fort Worth, formerly the route of the Texas Zephyr. Both were operating at what looked like 20 MPH. There were piles of ties, indicating recent tie replacement, and perhaps that was the reason.
I've wanted to photograph a train at this concrete culvert for some time, and this is the 3-unit locomotive on an empty coal train heading back to Wyoming.
A week ago Saturday, I met a friend and we went out at twilight for some blue hour photos. Here, at 9:16 PM, a BNSF general freight train is charging west, up the 1% grade west of Canyon, Texas. I hand-held this shot at 1/250 second, f4, ISO 12800, using a fairly new Canon mirrorless EOS-R. It is a great camera for low light. It has almost no knobs, and all the settings are adjusted using the screen or in the viewfinder. There's a learning curve involved.
