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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Poppa_Zit OK, I'll take a shot.... Two years ago I was making pictures of UP freights on a Sunday afternoon on the old CNW mainline in Chicago's western suburbs. After spending about five hours shooting the usual traffic with a big telephoto off the top deck of a public parking garage, an inbound unit train came up and stopped at the signal just west of where I was. The dispatcher told him to wait there until a slot opened up ahead, maybe 10 to 20 minutes. So I figured I'd scoot down to a big, sweeping curve a couple miles ahead and get a nice low-sun, backlit shot of a coal drag struggling upgrade around the curve. As soon as I get into my truck and start driving up the road, the gates go down at the next grade crossing. Of course, my camera is in the bag and still attached to a big 500mm lens as the UP business train -- headed by the E9s -- comes flying through with its Armour yellow consist flashing in the "honey light." At least I got a second chance 10 days ago, when it came through here twice; once inbound to Global I, and back out again on the old CNW toward Clinton, Iowa. [/quote] I think many of us have given up at a certain location and planned to move on when just as we left the first location here comes tons of traffic. [;)] If you read my poison ivy story early on in this thread, I was heading home already itching from the poison ivy when I happened upon another train. I was not able to stop and take any photos of the new found train because of the itching and needing to get home and in the shower to try and stop it spreading. [:(!] [:(] [:(!]
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