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Old 05-12-2013, 08:09 PM   #18
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Default Re: Steam Train Photo Op

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Originally Posted by Tom Wesenberg View Post
I blew it. The 261 was about an hour late and sped by pretty quickly. I didn't give the camera time to focus and I snapped the picture a fraction of a second too soon. There was no time to take a second picture.

While I was waiting for the 261 to go by, a freight train sped by 40 minutes earlier and the vacuum pulled my motorbike over onto the granite roadbed.
Sorry Tom, it wasn't vacuum. It was vibration due to poor condition of the roadbed.
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