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oldekid
10-21-2008, 07:09 PM
This rolled through downtown Orlando today at about 3:05.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l120/JohnTrogdon/IMG_0571copy.jpg
ImpalaSlayer
10-21-2008, 07:20 PM
lol gota stop with the warp speed look. otherwise awsome as always
oldekid
10-21-2008, 07:42 PM
Ok, here is the original, straight out of the camera with no post processing, sharpening or anything. It's pretty much fricking boring. I was shooting something else at the time, and this came rolling through. Sadly enough, I had my camera set at 1000th of a second, so there was no indication of speed in this shot. Slowing down the shutter speed would have helped, but I had no time to do that.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l120/JohnTrogdon/IMG_0571.jpg
ImpalaSlayer
10-21-2008, 07:48 PM
use you fancy magic to make it look more better just not going warp speed lol
oldekid
10-21-2008, 08:02 PM
So, this is what I was trying to capture at the time.
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l120/JohnTrogdon/IMG_0562copy.jpg
Bigdogjim
10-21-2008, 09:23 PM
NIce work, I really like the effects:up:
ckadiddle
10-22-2008, 09:21 AM
Nice job, John. Didn't know a train could make Warp Eight. ;) Everything you do is awesome.
Merc-O-matic
10-22-2008, 05:47 PM
Nice shot John. CSX 5880 is a B36-7 (GE) built in 1985....and still running!
Not very many left in active service (maybe a dozen or so).
I have nice shot of her sister CSX 5856 taken when she was Brand New
(in Pensacola, Fla.) back in the summer of '85.

Gotta Love It!:beatnik:
knine
10-22-2008, 06:57 PM
That old u-boat (or is it an old dash-8) doesn'thave ditchlights on the running end. Ut-oh. Nice pic. I love to see these old beasts still running.
Merc-O-matic
10-22-2008, 07:04 PM
That old u-boat (or is it an old dash-8) doesn'thave ditchlights on the running end. Ut-oh. Nice pic. I love to see these old beasts still running.

Not a U-boat...those where U-36-B's.....this is B36-7 (dash-7)
which replaced the U boats. Yes, not many left.
Probably has ditchlight on the front end...FRA regulations.

Gotta Love It!
knine
10-22-2008, 07:09 PM
If it were an EMD i could tell you anyting about it, I'm not so good with the GE's. ......the same people who make my stove that doesn't run right.....or have ditch lights either. :lol:
Merc-O-matic
10-22-2008, 07:18 PM
If it were an EMD i could tell you anyting about it, I'm not so good with the GE's. ......the same people who make my stove that doesn't run right.....or have ditch lights either. :lol:

Ditchlights weren't required by law until 1995....since this was built
before then.....the ditchlights are "after market". By law if an engine
is going to be used outside the "yard limits", it should have ditchlights
on both ends. They probably rarely run this one long hood forward.:eek:

A new FRA law states all freight cars and engines will have reflector
tape on their sides by the end of the year!.....if the graffiti doesn't
cover them up. LOL
oldekid
10-23-2008, 04:55 PM
Sorry guys, but what the hell is a ditchlight? I may be ignorant about trains, but I didn't think this one was anything special.
Merc-O-matic
10-23-2008, 05:03 PM
John, Ditchlights are like headlights on a car...down near the frame.
two separate lights.....before the law changed, the only light on an engine
was on the nose. This engine doesn't have them on the rear end, but maybe
on the front. This engine is running backwards.
Heading back to Florida this weekend....sorry we will miss Sanford on
Saturday.:mad2:
oldekid
10-23-2008, 05:14 PM
John, Ditchlights are like headlights on a car...down near the frame.
two separate lights.....before the law changed, the only light on an engine
was on the nose. This engine doesn't have them on the rear end, but maybe
on the front. This engine is running backwards.
Heading back to Florida this weekend....sorry we will miss Sanford on
Saturday.:mad2:Thanks for the info Al. Sorry to hear you can't make Sanford. We will certainly miss you.