{"id":1415,"date":"2009-12-30T23:34:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T03:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2009-12-30T23:34:59","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T03:34:59","slug":"quick-night-fec-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/quick-night-fec-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Night FEC Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Been down here in Florida for a few days now, but haven’t had a chance to head trackside. \u00a0Tonight was the first time I was able to get out – and with the help of ATCS Monitor, I was able to catch a FEC freight in Boca Raton, FL. \u00a0Only problem was my timing.<\/p>\n

Tonight as we were getting the kids ready for bed, I checked out ATCS Monitor to see if any trains were in the area. \u00a0There was a southbound around West Palm Beach, so I figured the timing would work out OK – enough time to put the kids to bed, and get up to Boca Raton to set up and shoot the train coming south.<\/p>\n

With the kids all snuggled up in bed, I got my gear together and headed out. \u00a0As I passed by the intermediate signal just north of the Boca\/Deerfield Beach line, I saw that it was showing a high green for a southbound. \u00a0Now the question was will I have time to get up to Palmetto Park Rd. and set up my gear before the train showed up.<\/p>\n

As I got to the light at the intersection of Dixie Highway and Palmetto Park, there was still no evidence of the train showing up. \u00a0I took a left when I got the green arrow, and as I crossed the tracks, I saw headlights to the north – crap, this was going to be close!<\/p>\n

I got to my spot a bit south of the crossing, and started hastily setting up my gear. \u00a0Just as I got the Lumedyne assembled and on the light stand, the crossing activated at Palmetto Park Rd. \u00a0Crap, here they come.<\/p>\n

No time for a test shot – only just enough time to guess at the head’s angle, hoist the light and set up the camera. \u00a0Just as I was ready, FEC train 101 started blowing for the crossing. \u00a0Moments later, they came into view, and I popped off this one shot.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:10942]\n

Not a bad catch – a couple SD70Ms pulling about 10,000′ of intermodal. \u00a0Too bad I didn’t have time to work on a better lighting setup. \u00a0Oh, well, next time…<\/p>\n

If you’re curious, the lighting was just my 400 watt\/second Lumedyne, 10′ in the air about 8′ to my left and a bit behind me.<\/p>\n

Thanks for looking!
\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Been down here in Florida for a few days now, but haven’t had a chance to head trackside. \u00a0Tonight was the first time I was able to get out – and with the help of ATCS Monitor, I was able to catch a FEC freight in Boca Raton, FL. \u00a0Only problem was my timing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,2],"tags":[33,35,36,110,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-1415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-night-photography","7":"category-rail_photography","8":"tag-boca-raton","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-east-coast-railway","11":"tag-lumedyne","12":"tag-night","13":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}