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Photographs always turn out best with a great sky overhead. So, when I looked outside Sunday morning and saw a beautiful blue sky (and very warm temperatures!) I asked myself "where can I go railfanning today?" I checked my schedule that I'd put together for Worcester, MA, and saw that there was a CSX local and an MBTA train headed through between 2:10 and 2:40. So I managed to get a ride to Worcester, and away I went. Here's a link to the schedule:<a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p1JDjBW8mPUzOEIBug7XGQw" mce_href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p1JDjBW8mPUzOEIBug7XGQw">Worcester Train Schedules</a> I set up on the platform, and soon enough CSX local B722 came along, with a GE AC6000CW and ES44AC, trailing a whopping three covered hoppers. They came through the station at a pretty good clip (fast enough to get a pan shot even with a shutter speed of 1/200th of a second) and headed west. [img]http://trainmanty.rrpicturearchives.net/pictures%5C35736%5CIMG_0066.jpg[/img] [img]http://trainmanty.rrpicturearchives.net/pictures%5C35736%5CIMG_0072.jpg[/img] [img]http://trainmanty.rrpicturearchives.net/pictures%5C35736%5CIMG_0076.jpg[/img] Shortly after, the signals lit up again. MBTA P557 came around the bend in the yard, about a mile away, with a GP40MC (rebuilt from an ex-CN widecab GP40) on the point. It ducked under the I-290 overpass and passed me with the HEP generator screaming. [img]http://trainmanty.rrpicturearchives.net/pictures%5C35745%5CIMG_0084.jpg[/img] As the passengers flooded out onto the platform, I made my way to the other end of the platform nearer to the locomotive. [img]http://trainmanty.rrpicturearchives.net/pictures%5C35745%5CIMG_0092.jpg[/img] Right on schedule, the train throttled up and the Geep shoved P556 back to Boston. [img]http://trainmanty.rrpicturearchives.net/pictures%5C35745%5CIMG_0102.jpg[/img] I caught this shot of the signal bridge silhouetted against the sky, then took a 4 photo panorama (stitched together manually with Adobe Photoshop 6.0 this morning) and finally headed home. [img]http://trainmanty.rrpicturearchives.net/pictures%5C38626%5CIMG_0114.jpg[/img] [img]http://trainmanty.rrpicturearchives.net/pictures%5C38626%5CIMG_0108.jpg[/img] I think the photos couldn't have turned out much better, considering Union Station is on the wrong side of the tracks, so the trains are always backlighted... I've done quite a bit of digital editing with these photos... Plus starting with 149 photos and narrowing them down to 18... There's also a video: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLeazCFU0PA[/url]Enjoy!
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