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Greg and Denise Anderson
The sunset shot of the Coburg Turn at Newtonville was planeed just
to be a sunset shot with the sun setting directly between the rails.
This happens for only 7 or 8 days each year before it shifts back to
the North of the tracks. I was with a freind, and had used the 200mm
lens on my Pentax SPF to bring the sun even larger into the image. I
knew that the Coburg Turn had gone by the Bowmaville HB Detector
about 15 minutes earlier, but really did not plan on the train being
there in time. I had the shot lined up directly between the rails
(from the outside of the curve), and then heard a horn in the
distance. I moved over about ten feet to get the sun still between
the rails, but not have the train block it out should it make it in
time. The ditch lights came around the curve just as the sun touched
the horizon, and I saw that there were three units on the train! The
Coburg normally only got one unit then, and an additional bonus was
the MLW C424 leading!
I knew I had the exposures correct, as I have done many sunset
shots, and have a god list of the exposures for different degrees of
cloudiness/haze at sunset or sunrises, and have rarely been let down.
What I did not know, or see at the time was that the Conductor is
visible in the cupola of the caboose! This has turned out to be one
of my all time favourite sunset shots as a result.
from the Great White North, somewhere east of Toronto
Gary R Zuters
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