Reed, It was taken on Tuesday around 11am, what you saw was probably the signal maintainer, section, and possibly the track inspector since they were up there a couple of days, on Wednesday, we were further west between Sultan and Monroe, you might have noticed the slot train in Sultan.
Cool shots Jason,
Were these taken on Wednesday? My brother and I were up on the pass railfanning then. Saw a few hyrails heading west at the Bonneville cut.
Tony, I have the Canon SX20is, I know what you mean on how hard it is to shoot black or white in bright sunlight, I had my camera set on auto focus and the sun angle wasn't working in my favor when I took those shots, I am still learning on exposures and adjusting the different speeds on film and shutter.
Next time, i'll try the manual focus and see what happens, as for the crows and ravens up at Scenic, I did not see a single crow up there with the four ravens, I do see crows further west and east away from Scenic.
Black birds in bright sun are tough to shoot and get details in.
I forgot which camera you have (I seem to remember it's not a DSLR), but try some exposure compensation when shooting mostly blacks (or whites) to get more details in. If you can, manually focus as blacks also make it tough for auto focus to lock on.
Is it just me or does there seem to be alot more crows and ravens around the area than there were years ago?
Bob,that flat car has the scaffolding on it for tunnel work and it is used by, MOW, structures, telecom, and signal, it is only used when there is tunnel work therefore it is was parked in the 2nd ave yard most of the time, structures are working in the tunnel painting over the scrape marks up on the ceiling notches, at first they painted the verticle part of the notches yelllow but they decided to use black instead.
Interesting flatcar the crow is perched on. Looks like it's been around a while, I'm guessing it's in MOW service, based on the paint?
