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Anyone who has ever "train chased" with me knows that I like to have a good set of maps and a good set of knowledge about the ins and outs of the places I want to shoot. Many times, I spend a day "scouting" locations if I'm not on familar turf. That's why I carry several different colors of surveyor's tape in my camera bag. Surveyor's tape costs about two bucks a roll, comes in a variety of bright colors and is available at most hardware stores. Use surveyor's tape to create three-foot "streamers" hanging from trees, road signs, guardrail posts, etc., to mark places you need to turn off, park, etc., for photo access. Use several colors to mean different shots...yellow might be a place to shoot westbounds, orange denotes an eastbound shot. In the heat of the chase, it makes it much easier to find the places you've scoped-out. Such use of surveyor's tape is quite common among forest service firefighting crews to mark access roads into fires. There still may be orange streamers all along the highway between St. Regis and Thompson Falls, Montana after the week I spent there last October doing the MRL semaphores! I'm not sure if I removed all of them as I left... I've shot Marias Pass nerly a dozen times and still need the surveyor's tape each year to mark the access road to Tunnel 4 near Belton! --David R. Busse Diamond Bar, Calif. ======================================================= -> SPORRS: 'Serious Photographers Of Railroad Related Subjects' -> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/ -> Message © 1998 SPORRS® - All Rights Reserved =======================================================
