Interesting perspective but what I like most is no shadow from the parachute.
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Interesting; the two P42's are working uphill with a load, and the cooling fans haven't spun-up yet.
The air must have been quite chilly!
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It was about 30 degrees, Doug. At this point they actually had just come down a grade a half mile or so to the east. However, about 45 minutes before this, the train was struggling mightily to get up the grade at the Big Ten Curve. From a distance, it appeared they were barely making it at a crawl while exhaust from both units was spewing far into the sky. This train must have been really loaded down!
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Well now there's a way to avoid a "high sun" rejection I hadn't thought of...levitation! Nice shot, Jim!
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Nah, that's just backlit, Mr. Pick. Check out the shadow from the nose. ;-)
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Awesome effort!! Looks like N-scale! PCA!
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Nice angle Jim!
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Really well done, Jim!
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Say WHAT Jim?? Any westbound train at this Tunnel 29 location has NOT "just come DOWN a grade a half mile or so to the east!" When Horace Sumner built David Moffat's railroad, it was consistently on a 2 pct. grade, and your photo remarkably notes where the South BOULDER Creek and the RR right of way come together. Over and over brilliant Civil Engineer Sumner advised Mr. Moffat his proposed RR could NOT follow the streambed of South Boulder Creek as it rose too quickly. From the point of your photo on to the Moffat Tunnel the RR and the creek DO parallel and follow each other.
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Nice sequentially numbered units, too.
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Steve, I was just going by what I saw/heard just east of this location. Two west bound trains came by a while after Amtrak and it sounded like they were descending a grade before the big curve into Tunnel 29. I stand corrected if my perception was skewed. Must have been that thin mountain air affecting my brain. :-)
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