{"id":519,"date":"2009-03-24T09:57:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T13:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/24\/heading-west\/"},"modified":"2009-03-24T09:57:31","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T13:57:31","slug":"heading-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/heading-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Heading West"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night after work and after I checked into the hotel, I was thinking about where I wanted to go an shoot.\u00a0 Northern New Jersey was graced with blue, cloudless skies, and a sun that was setting a little after 7PM.\u00a0 Where could I go to take advantage of this nearly perfect golden hour light?\u00a0 Well, instead of picking the low hanging fruit and heading down the street to Bound Brook or Manville, I decided to head further west.\u00a0 Yep, I made the nearly 60 minute trek west to Bethlehem, PA to see what I could come up with.<\/p>\n

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The trip west took a bit longer than I had hoped – the usual traffic backups on the way.\u00a0 Of course the scanner was on the entire trip out, and as I got closer to the Bethlehem exit on I78, the scanner started picking up NS activity.\u00a0 It sounded like a westbound NS job was rolling through Bethlehem towards Allentown Yard.\u00a0 Damn…and I was still about 10 minutes out.\u00a0 Oh, well – I’m here, so I figured I’d head to the New Street bridge and see what I could see.\u00a0 Maybe there would be another train around soon.<\/p>\n

I got there and was greeted with some beautiful light, but nary a train in sight.\u00a0 The closest thing was a couple strings of cars that LVRM dropped for NS to pick up.\u00a0 I even missed them…<\/p>\n

While pacing back & forth across the bridge, I got a couple shots.\u00a0 One was of the CP-Bethlehem signal with the old Bethlehem Steel plant in the background.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8621]\n

Then from over the Lehigh River, a shot of Bethlehem, PA<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8620]\n

With that done, I continued my pacing back & forth across the bridge.\u00a0 It was better than sitting there freezing with the constant 15-20MPH wind.\u00a0 After about 20 minutes, something interesting came across the scanner – a detector at what sounded like milepost 82.\u00a0 Hmmm, thinking a minute, CP-88 was just below the bridge I was on, putting a train 6 miles from where I was standing.\u00a0 Now the question was, is the train east or westbound?<\/p>\n

A few minutes later, I got my answer – off in the distance appeared a trio of headlights on a black NS widecab locomotive.\u00a0 listening to the scanner again, it sounded like it was NS train 33K pulling into view, preparing to head to Allentown Yard.\u00a0 Of course, I got a series of shots of the train progressing along the tracks, with the Bethlehem Steel plant as a backdrop.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8619] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8618] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8617] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8616] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8615] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8614]\n

After that, I found my way down to get a couple closer shots of the old blast furnaces.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8613] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8612] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8611] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8610] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8609]\n

By that time, the shadows were getting quite long as the sun set in the west, and I called it a day.\u00a0 Pretty satisfied with what I got, I hit I78 east, and headed back to the hotel for the evening.<\/p>\n

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

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