Media Trestle Silhouette
Shortly after the sun has disappeared below the far hills, a fast moving BNSF intermodal train crosses the giant trestle at Media, IL with freight for Chicago. The BNSF’s Chillicothe Subdivision is mostly flat and straight, slicing across the prairie on the quickest route between Chicago and Kansas City. However, early builders ran into a [...]
Tiny Tehachapis
I’ve been sorting through old photos from last year, attempting to update my Lightroom catalog a bit, and I ran across a photo that I thought I could maybe help a bit in Photoshop. I know, I know, these tilt/shift things are gimmicky and lame (it’s been discussed…), but I really think they can produce [...]
Elmore Road
When I was in high school and just beginning to take an interest in photography, mostly to record trains, I often ventured after class up to Elmore Road just east of Williamsfield, IL, about 10 miles north of my hometown. This was the closest grade crossing of the then-Santa Fe’s (and a year after I [...]
