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Union Pacific 4-8-4 “Northern” No. 844 at South Canyon nr. Glenwood Springs, Colorado, July, 1997
Never removed from the Union Pacific Engine Roster since the days of steam, the famed U.P. 4-8-4 “Northern” Engine No. 844 makes its way west from Glenwood Springs at dusk in July, 1997. Seen crossing the Chacra Bridge with UP’s classic passenger cars in tow, dim light made film photography very difficult as night descended. An 80mm f2.8 Carl Zeiss Planar lens on a Hasselblad 500 C/M medium format camera was used with the aperture wide open at 1/250th second on Kodak ASA 400mm film to make this exposure. The driving rods are just a blur on the engine’s four driving wheels, due to the inability of this shutter speed to freeze action. The flat trailing smoke pattern hints that the engine was traveling between forty and fifty miles per hour. Due to its speed, I had a chance to expose just one frame as the the engine passed. I was extremely lucky to get the engine in perfect focus on the only frame I was able to expose.
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