John L Mathis

Highlight for May 2012 - II

 

ATSF 3751 - loose in the Mojave desert with the "Grand Canyon Limited". The big northern is moving fast through the desert near Siberia, CA where the tracks rejoin on May 14 2012. This is the first leg of its trip to the Grand Canyon as part of Arizona's 2012 Centennial celebration and also as a repeat of the NRHS convention visit ten years ago in August 2002.

 

Sony DSLR A900 - 1/1250 sec. - f/5.6 - ISO 200 - Sony 70-400mm SSM G lens @330mm. Processed with Adobe Photoshop CS5.

 

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Welcome to jlmrrphotos.com. This is a family oriented site with over 1000 railroad photgraphs that I've made over the last 54 years. Normally, several new images are added each week. The newest postings are placed in the Latest Images gallery. Images are subsequently moved to their respective galleries by railroad, or in the steam or electric galleries.

 

 

Last Updated: May 18, 2012.

 

 

5/8/2012: Site Activity. If the site is inactive for an extended length of time, then I am probably traveling. Upon my return postings resume. When the site is not updated due to maintenance, I will announce this in advance.

 

 

1/20/2012: ISP DOWNTIME PROBLEMS!!! DREAMHOST IS MY ISP and for the last almost 7 years things are usually OK. However, this past week it seems that they are having real problems. Hopefully this is just transient, but if you can't get to the site, it is not off the air, just hobbled by ISP problems!!!

 

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5/30/2011: New Camera and Lenses. My Canon equipment has now been replaced with Sony gear. More on the Camera Info page.

 

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