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On the way home from Johnny's baseball game last night, we crossed over the railroad tracks in Fuquay -Varina where several Norfolk Southern train engines usually park overnight. To mine and Johnny's surprise, there was a bright and shiny new red engine. What?!? All the Norfolk Southern engines are black, right? No! See here. It was almost dark, but I stopped and snapped a few shots hand held at 3200 ISO. The engine had drawn quite a crowd and other photogs and train enthusiasts were there snapping away too. On the way home, I started debating whether or not I could get up early the next morning and get a better shot/light. Tool cool an opportunity to miss.
Just so happens that I stirred at 5:45AM this morning, so I got up and went to see if the NS 8114 was still on the track. I got there around 6:20AM. Several other photogs and train enthusiasts were again already there. I asked one of them how we got so lucky to have this specially painted Norfolk Southern train in Fuquay-Varina. He said it was requested to go to a historical train meeting in Fayetteville, NC tomorrow. I didn't get more details:-( I took a bunch of bracketed shots with my tripod. Around 6:40AM it pulled out, and I got a video plus had time to get across town to take pics at another spot. Way cool stuff! I liked the rumble in my chest when the engineer blew the horn.
My daily is a shot from this morning tht Google did an HDR on and which I then used some other filters to finesse bit more.
Second favorite shot/post processing today.
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Video Fuquay-Varina Depart At a crossing in Fuquay-Varina on Main Street.
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