| Posted by Mitch Goldman on December 11, 2012 | |
Interesting perspective but what I like most is no shadow from the parachute.
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| Posted by Doug Wilson on December 11, 2012 | |
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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| Posted by Jim Thias on December 11, 2012 | |
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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| Posted by Brent Michael (Mr. Pick) on December 11, 2012 | |
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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| Posted by Jim Thias on December 11, 2012 | |
Nah, that's just backlit, Mr. Pick. Check out the shadow from the nose. ;-)
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| Posted by John Simpkins-Camp on December 11, 2012 | |
Awesome effort!! Looks like N-scale! PCA!
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| Posted by Darryl Bond on December 12, 2012 | |
Nice angle Jim!
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| Posted by Janusz Mrozek on December 12, 2012 | |
Really well done, Jim!
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| Posted by Steve Patterson on December 12, 2012 | |
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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| Posted by hemiadda2d on December 13, 2012 | |
Nice sequentially numbered units, too.
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| Posted by Jim Thias on December 13, 2012 | |
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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