Sunday Jul 20 2008
I parked over by the south end of the old Santa Fe depot complex and hiked across East Lancaster to the embankment at the west end of the TRE bridge in time to catch train 2925 westbound in perfect light between the Fort Worth ITC and the T&P depot.
Saturday Jul 19 2008
Friday June 20th was a slower day for me during the NRHS convention as I prepared for the BNSF ”Quanah Flyer” trip the next day on Saturday. Later in the afternoon I joined some of the visiting and local railfans down at the west side of the tracks at Broadway Street. The most interesting catch was a big BNSF grain train with “2 x 2″ power just like a coal train. Here is the first shot of the BNSF 5524 South passing the now closed grade crossing.
Friday Jul 18 2008
When our group arrived with the three MATA streetcars for our final night shot sequence, we set up our tripods on the sidewalk along North St. Paul where the street crosses over the Woodall Rogers Freeway. You could not have asked for a more interestingly lighted building in the background, but at the time I never thought to ask about or look for the building’s name. If anyone knows what it is, please share it with us. Too bad some of the neon lighting was out, but you can’t always have everything you want. I used my wide-angle zoom here, and in this first shot I did not do any post-processing as far as lens correction as I liked the curve of the building as exagerated by the lens.
Thursday Jul 17 2008
At first glance Cole and Bowen sound like a law firm, but in this case it is a street intersection in Dallas where we stopped our procession of MATA streetcars for our next photo session on the night of June 19th. Steve and Alex set the photo line up and then we proceeded to photograph each of the three cars posed in it. The first in line was car 122, the “Crescent Rose” with no one on board.
