CSX activity in Akron Ohio

[jay611]

Very nice!

I love the BNSF with the storm cloud behind it! Thats beautiful. Perfact lighting and color. Well done!

Cheers,

Jason Underwood
Newport News, Virginia
CSX Peninsula Sub MP.16
WMRY303@hotmail.com

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[NewEnglandRailFan]

Yeah the BNSF one is great! I woulda waited a tick longer on the shutter though. :D

[csxtac4400cw122]

thanks jay and Dave, If I didnt have such a low tech camera I would have, but since I only have a Kodak EasyShare CX7330, it was now or never, with the slow shutter speed, and the rate that the train was moving, all I would have had was from the conductor side numbers, back. I do appreciate the advice, keep it coming!

[jay611]

I shoot with a Kodak Z740 and normally fire when the train is about to exit the frame. Kodak has a wide lens and even if it has filled the screen i still have a few feet infront of the power.

Cheers,

Jason Underwood
Newport News, Virginia
CSX Peninsula Sub MP.16
WMRY303@hotmail.com

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[wyatt]

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[jay611]

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[csxtac4400cw122]

First time using photobucket, lets see if this works

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Westbound Grinstein

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l77/csxtac4400cw122/000_0177a.jpg

westbound H2

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Eastbound UP

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l77/csxtac4400cw122/000_0173a.jpg

Wheeling and Lake Erie empty rock train reversing, with a burned out ditch light.

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l77/csxtac4400cw122/100_0576.jpg

Gevo eastbound

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l77/csxtac4400cw122/000_0201.jpg

BNSF eastbound

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l77/csxtac4400cw122/000_0187a.jpg

CSX ACe

[csxtac4400cw122]

This is what I get when I shoot when its about to leave the frame.

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good sun, rare engine for nowdays, the old cr/lmsx, late fire, wasnt happy after this shot, 7673 is the lead locomotive.

[jay611]

its all in practice. You gotta learn how the shutter reacts after you fire. I practiced along the side of the road, as cars doing 45 + came past... its a good way to get your timeing down to a key, but not the safest way to do things. Whats the track speed at this place? It looks to have a unprotected crossing which I'd think would need to be flagged.

Just play around and you'll get it!

Cheers,

Jason Underwood
Newport News, Virginia
CSX Peninsula Sub MP.16
WMRY303@hotmail.com
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[csxtac4400cw122]

Jay

Track speed is 55 mph, with a 35 mile per hour permanent speed restriction, about a mile and a half east of this location, so if its a long eastbound, somewhere between 35 and 55, if its a short eastbound, they are doing all of 55. Westbounds are coming out of the 35 mph zone, and are usually doing 45-50 when they get to me. Here is one of my first shots with my camera, with a car, on the crossing.

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l77/csxtac4400cw122/MUSTANGONSOUTH.jpg

There are gates there. The line that I am on, is the former Baltimore and Ohio, Chicago Mainline. I have taken about 400 shots with the camera I use, and every once and a while I still mess shots up.

[jay611]

Ah ok. Thanks for the info! The gates are pushed back much farther than what our are here in a VA.

Not every shot you get is going to be perfact. normally i'll shoot from 100 to 200 frames and save about 70 of them. I've got the shutter speed set on mine as high as it will go considering I go to airshows and shoot pics of aircraft doing 300 + mph. You shots now are great shots. Over time you will get better and better. Just have fun :)

Cheers,

Jason Underwood
Newport News, Virginia
CSX Peninsula Sub MP.16
WMRY303@hotmail.com
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