a shot in the dark...

pretty cool Ted !!

Both of these entries look terrific!

Way to set the bar Ted!

    Nice shot is right....but is that  Jeckyll & Hyde, or maybe a two headed alien milk man?  

Did a bit of predawn photography today...

First up, my Metro North M4 cab unit. 

Naturally, Norma Bates Kitteh HAD to get into the act...

Experimenting with various camera settings and a tripod. 

"Dispatcher, you AIN'T gonna believe THIS one!" 

A couple of shots of my prewar/postwar interurban.  

Mitch 

A shot in the dark for a dark Monday morning in NY.

Here's my coal pile and power house at night .

Guy

Bob, turned out nice putting that light up for the worker!

Wigville, Nice looking coal pile and the plants looks just great at night!

Very dramatic! Drama in this case is good.

Amtrak Empire Service at the northern end of Manhattan.

David

                                                   a very NICE photo David !!

Thanks, Brian. Here's a going-away shot of the same train. Hope to go back with sticks and a longer lens in a more serious effort - this is a big crop. David

               looks GREAT !  keep on posting your photos, awesome shots....

Thanks to OGRR Forum member Scale Rail, I got replacement trucks for a couple of my Industrial Rail trolleys,  and have one up and running! 

While fooling about with the trolley, I swapped out the factory yellow LED headlights with some white ones scrounged from Christmas tree lights, and got some nifty effects in the dark!   

Mitch 

I miss developing real film when I see speed effects like that.

Adriatic posted:

I miss developing real film when I see speed effects like that.

Well, as you can see, it IS possible to do it with a digital camera as well! 

Mitch 

But it isn't wet and smelly in red light   

Adriatic posted:

But it isn't wet and smelly in red light   

Okay.  Next time you plug your digital camera in, put a red bulb in your desk lamp and take a great big whiff of, and splash around in, a dish of uncut vinegar.   That should bring the ol' memories flooding back!  

Mitch 

Snagged a framegrab from the above vids:  

Mitch 

Mitch, nice to see your trolley running. Glad it worked out for you. Don

scale rail posted:

Mitch, nice to see your trolley running. Glad it worked out for you. Don

Thanks again, Don!  I think I'll do an "Under The Hood"  howto when I swap out the other truck.  Gotta track down some more christmas LED lights so I can get more white LEDs for the headlights... ;-) 

Mitch 

Here's the Crimson Comet testing out some bayonet mount white LED bulbs... 

Mitch 

NKP Muncie posted:

 

Great shot, that's tough to get something like that in that kind of light and not have serious motion blur!

Thanks, Lee. Here's one from earlier this month. A little more light (still not much - ISO 4000, 1/50th at f/2), a longer lens. Flashing green signal (the left of the four) beyond the water, for this train.

David

And now, out West...UP train at Sahuarita, Ariz., tonight. Train was on the siding, if I'm not mistaken.

David

SAL E8-A #3049, destined to pull the Silver Meteor at the Hamlet Depot Museums.

I like it Brian! Great picture!

thanks Mike !!

VistaDomeScott posted:

Here is my night time Amtrak running 

https://youtu.be/rCUnkt0v544

Very nice.

Hobos  playing guitar and drinking by a campfire:

Here they are more in the dark: