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A westbound coal load lead by BNSF 9397 rolls across the eastern Colorado prairie near Crest, CO.
Canon EOS 5D
Sigma 100-300 f/4 @ 300mm
ISO 200 1/500s f/11
A coal load rumbles along near West Barr on the BNSF Brush Subdivision. Just a a very few years ago it was basically open farmland on the other side of the tracks.
In another couple of years I'll probably have to shoot this image from the front yard of a house in a 5000 unit housing...
BNSF 9384 west leaves the siding after meeting
3 trains at Tonville, CO in this supertelephoto shot.
Canon EOS 5D
Sigma 100-300 f/4 + 2x teleconverter @ 600mm
ISO 800 1/1600s f/11
Coal load BNSF 6198 moves west through the
switch at West Barr as I shoot through
a patch of cattails.
Canon EOS 5D
Sigma 100-300mm f/4 + 1.4x teleconverter @ 420m
ISO 400 1/800s f/11
The Chicago to Denver Z train basks
in the late day sun of February as it
crosses a small pond at Tonville, CO.
Canon EOS 5D
Canon EF 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 @ 44mm
ISO 200 1/640s f/8
December's winter sunlight shines upon
a Denver bound Q-train as it blasts through
Roggen, CO in this 500mm telesquish shot.
Canon EOS 5D.
Pentacon 500mm f/5.6 with Canon adapter.
GP30 2816 leads the Roggen Turn as it waits for a new crew at Hudson, CO on a very cold December night.
Canon EOS 5D
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L @ 73mm
104 seconds @ f/14
It's 10 degrees F with a slight wind blowing.
I'm freezing my bum off as I shoot a 42
second exposure of BNSF 8865 west waiting
on a meet at Keensburg, CO.
Canon EOS 5D
Canon EF 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 @ 85mm
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