Tony's Takes Photography

Wildlife, landscape and weather photography

FasTracks train on the move

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Something a bit different this evening. A friend of mine runs the website Complete Colorado and oftentimes needs stock images. He was wanting pictures of our local light rain system, FasTracks (or TaxTracks as I prefer to call it), and asked me if I could get some images.

Last week I was in the area of one of the stations for the new line that runs to Denver International Airport (when it works) and I stopped to snap some pictures.

The lighting was kind of harsh as it was mid-day but I was able to get some cool captures. By using a slow shutter speed (1/4 of a second) as the train pulled out of the stop I was able to blur the motion. Kind of a fun effect.

One of Denver's RTD FasTracks trains in motion as it heads to the airport. (© Tony’s Takes)
One of Denver’s RTD FasTracks trains in motion as it heads to the airport. (© Tony’s Takes)

Train rides into the storm

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The last few days have brought the first, real springtime thunderstorms to the Denver area and that has me thinking about storm chasing, something I hope to do in the coming weeks. In the meantime, I dug up this image taken back on May 29, 2010. While chasing in the Nebraska Sandhills area, the sky was rather ominous as a coal train headed west. Ultimately this particular chase was relatively uneventful beyond the dramatic skies but it was still a very pretty scene.

A coal train heads into a thunderstorm in the Nebraska Sandhills. (© Tony’s Takes)
A coal train heads into a thunderstorm in the Nebraska Sandhills. (© Tony’s Takes)