{"id":2407,"date":"2011-05-05T21:13:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T01:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/?p=2407"},"modified":"2011-05-05T21:13:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T01:13:52","slug":"spring-training-part-i-in-the-daylight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/spring-training-part-i-in-the-daylight\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring TRAINing Part I &#8211; In the Daylight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px; border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Scranton Limited at Steamtown\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nanosphoto.com\/gallery\/albums\/wpw-20110504\/thumb_51-20110430-1320706060-_MG_8549.jpg?resize=150%2C100\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/>On April 30, 2011 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfan.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Railfan &amp; Railroad<\/a> magazine held their first annual Spring TRAINing event at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/stea\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steamtown<\/a> in Scranton, PA. \u00a0The event was two parts &#8211; the first was a series of multimedia slideshows during the day, and the second was a night photo shoot using some of Steamtown&#8217;s equipment. \u00a0Since the event was in two parts, I&#8217;m going to split up the photos into two sections as well. \u00a0First up is the daytime stuff &#8211; photos, friends and slideshows.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I headed out of the house first thing in the morning, heading west on I-84 towards\u00a0Pennsylvania. \u00a0Once I got there (and after I-84 just over the PA border claimed my exhaust pipe patch job), I was greeted by a pretty welcome sight &#8211; a Delaware Lackawanna train preparing to head out of Scranton with what looked like a train of grain empties. \u00a0Not a bad way to start the day off &#8211; shooting the DL for the first time!<\/p>\n<p>After I got my tickets, I wandered around the site and started shooting. \u00a0While shooting I ran into a couple of guys that I&#8217;ve never met, but knew through our online conversations &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railpictures.net\/showphotos.php?userid=11960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mitch Goldman<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveseyimages.com\/Enter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dennis Livesey<\/a>. \u00a0As with the rest of the day, it was nice putting faces with emails and forum posts. \u00a0But as noon rolled around, it was time to head to the theater for the feature of the day &#8211; the multimedia slideshows.<\/p>\n<p>Presenters from all around showed their efforts on the screen for the next 4 and a half hours. \u00a0All the shows were great, and covered a lot of ground. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a few words on each, in order they were presented:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>George Hamlin&#8217;s &#8220;1970&#8217;s Northeast&#8221; &#8211; George had me hooked at the first shot of a New Haven passenger train in southwestern Connecticut. \u00a0Some very nice views from around the northeast, and I really like the way he &#8220;unwound&#8221; Conrail at the end of the show.<\/li>\n<li>Andrew\u00a0Blaszczyk&#8217;s &#8220;Shortlines&#8221; &#8211; A nice view of a number of shortlines around the eastern US. \u00a0Two photos stuck in my mind &#8211; first a shot of a Iowa Traction locomotive nicely framed by some stalks &amp; ears of corn, and also of the Iowa Interstate&#8217;s double header steam, where a going away shot in the hazy fog really stuck with me. \u00a0I also thought the melding of video along with the stills was a neat idea.<\/li>\n<li>Frank Etzel&#8217;s &#8220;Reflections of the Susquehanna&#8221; &#8211; A nice retrospective look at the Susy-Q from the Delaware Otsego years through today. \u00a0In addition to some great photography, the show included very some informative narration, and not just the usual music track. \u00a0A nice learning experience,\u00a0supplemented\u00a0with enjoyable photos.<\/li>\n<li>Bob Eisthen&#8217;s &#8220;Southern Belle&#8221; &#8211; Some beautiful imagery of the entire Kansas City Southern system. \u00a0Bob gave us a nice tour of the entire system to the Mexican border, showing some classic stuff, along with up to date photos &#8211; covering 23 years &#8211; 1987 to 2010. \u00a0Personally, I liked all the bridge shots he included.<\/li>\n<li>Steve Barry&#8217;s &#8220;Eastern Pennsylvania&#8221; &#8211; Steve had a nice show highlighting the diverse railroading available in the eastern portion of the Keystone State. \u00a0The tour included Steamtown &amp; the Delaware Lackawanna, Northeast Corridor, SEPTA and Strasburg Rail Road and the Railroad Museum of\u00a0Pennsylvania. \u00a0Also included were some nice night views, as is expected in any show Steve puts together.<\/li>\n<li>Jeff Smith&#8217;s &#8220;An Alternative View&#8221; &#8211; This was the different one of the group, and I did enjoy it. \u00a0Jeff presented a show that featured some alternatives &#8211; both in the taking and processing of photos. \u00a0A number of photos, he presented were processed in different ways, showing how the same shot would differ depending on the processing technique used. \u00a0Also included were some shots taken with a Lensbaby &#8211; a kind of tilt\/shift lens. \u00a0Very interesting! \u00a0The only thing I wished he included was some kind of indication as to what processing was what&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Steve Barry&#8217;s &#8220;A Tribute to Former R&amp;R Editor Jim Boyd&#8221; &#8211; With the recent passing of R&amp;R Editor Emeritus Jim Boyd, he left behind a huge trove of slides. \u00a0Steve assembled some of the more recently scanned slides into a show paying tribute to the man that took them &#8211; these were taken from &#8220;the box under the table&#8221; which was recently discovered in Jim&#8217;s house, literally, under the table. \u00a0A very nice look back into Jim&#8217;s extensive body of work.<\/li>\n<li>Jerry Jordak&#8217;s &#8220;Postcards from the P&amp;LE&#8221; &#8211; This was probably one of the more interesting shows. \u00a0Jerry took Howard Fogg&#8217;s paintings of the P&amp;LE (Fogg did a number of promotional paintings for the railroad), and showed how those scenes looked today. \u00a0Some very interesting changes, but also some spots didn&#8217;t change much at all.<\/li>\n<li>Chris Blaszczyk&#8217;s &#8220;STS: \u00a0Shuttles, Trains and Scrubs&#8221; &#8211; Chris and his brother Andrew made a number of trips to Florida to shoot shuttle launches, and along the way photographed the railroads they encountered. \u00a0A nice tour of railroads between New Jersey and Florida, along with some of his shuttle shots. \u00a0Chris, like his brother, mixed in some video with the stills. \u00a0But instead of railroads, Chris put in shuttle launch shots. \u00a0A nice change of pace!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With the slideshows done (and on time to boot), it was dinner time, so a bunch of us headed down to Wegmans for dinner. \u00a0For the local folks here in the northeast, Wegmans is kinda like Big-Y &#8211; they&#8217;re a grocery store that has a restaurant in there (albeit larger, and they serve beer &amp; wine). \u00a0After dinner, it was time for the night shoot. \u00a0But that&#8217;ll come in another post.<\/p>\n<p>OK, you&#8217;ve made it this far &#8211; I guess your reward is the photos from the day. \u00a0Nighttime photos will be coming tomorrow sometime &#8211; stay tuned.<\/p>\n[cpg_album:847]\n<p>Thanks for looking!<br \/>\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 30, 2011 Railfan &amp; Railroad magazine held their first annual Spring TRAINing event at Steamtown in Scranton, PA. \u00a0The event was two parts &#8211; the first was a series of multimedia slideshows during the day, and the second was a night photo shoot using some of Steamtown&#8217;s equipment. \u00a0Since the event was in [&hellip;]<\/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":[2],"tags":[499,245,500,501,502,503],"class_list":{"0":"post-2407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rail_photography","7":"tag-delaware-lackawanna","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-railfan-railroad-magazine","10":"tag-scranton","11":"tag-spring-training","12":"tag-steamtown","13":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407","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=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}