With the North Pole Express making a later Friday evening trip north to Ashley, Michigan, I plotted locations for possible night shots, with few 'scenic' or identifiable locations along the way. Opting for everyone's old standby location of the Carland Elevator, I set up the equipment and waited for the Pere Marquette 2-8-4 1225 to arrive. As the train steamed toward my location an 'alert flash' was dispatched. The train reached the elevator at track speed and in 1/600th of a second, was captured for eternity as this image. In speaking with the crew, they did not even know that I had taken the shot, claiming not to have even noticed a flash!
A continuously growing album of photos that IMHO reveal the awesome and seldom-seen beauty of the railroad world from the dimming of day to dawn's early light! From dusk to dawn, trains roll on! (I'm still finding gems of sunset-to-sunrise surprises!)
