Engine house at night, locomotives

I just signed up at photobucket and wanted to try it out. So, here is a shot I got of the Hinkle round house at night.
Edit: this turned out a lot larger than I expected! SO I am trying out the thumbnail link. Please be patient this is my first try at thumbnails

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Cool shot.

Jon.

Good start! Try some when there's still a little light in the sky with both a sun & cloudy white balance.

Okay. I will do that.
The sun rises almost directly in line with the lens at the angle of this shot. So maybe an evening shot would be good, huh?

Try both! See what you like better. If you shoot early enough, I'd bet on the sunrise ones.
Definition of "early enough" - start with just a hint of light in the sky & keep shooting till the sun breaks out. I'll buy the film so you can shoot a lot & have fun with it!

I don't know if I will have the time to shoot from the hint of dawn until sun break. The management usually wants us to get the train out of town as soon as possible.
I usually take these shots while my train is being fueled on the main line.

What about the foreground? Those tracks there bug me. Although, I don't know what I can do about them. Zooming in (by foot or lens) makes the shot bad, and getting higher is hard to do. I guess I could use more sky.
Somewhere in this computer I do have a shot like this with some predawn sky in the background. If I remember correctly, the line up on the service track was pretty ugly in that shot.

Seems like an interesting perspective to me. Not all of us drive trains for a living.