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Caption: Back when I was a working stiff; I realized early in my suffering that I only worked to pay for film and to go out no matter what. Well, those days have certainly changed. :o)
Here we are in the deep dark days of January's damp cold, and I am already up at Guelph Jct (from home in St. Catharines) and it is not even light enough to shoot a moving train without blurring. In film days it was a lot different than with todays' digital. In this image, I am shooting 30th of s sec with camera on a tripod, as I was really lucky to catch this train stopped. It was waiting for an eastbound at 1st Line.
Just like the moaning I hear about even today; trains run mostly thru the night. And so it was in 1992 at the Junction. You had to hope a few were late.
CP 5515, GO 723 and CP 4717 power this train, a nice combination. Was the GO 'borrowed'?? I dunno, this was a Wednesday.
Any information on that eastbound was not recorded. Image 30/2.8 medium format Kodak 400 ISO, Mamiya 645 1000s.
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Yes, but the motion blur sure makes for a more interesting photo!
By this time, all the F59′s floating around meant GO was either selling off or leasing surplus power. The GP40 here was likely leased to CP, and GO would trade it in on another order of new F59′s in 1994.
This is a good effort. One of those ‘well, I have nothing else really to do” kind of moments I bet!
Well, geez; it is freezing out, there is a train coming…..and no matter what it is, it is always worth a shot. So…..
Well, yeah, you are right.
Yeah… i was talking with respect to the photography.. at dusk.. in winter.. the light can really get low fast.. not much else you can do really when a train’s moving fast