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Caption: To get a break in shooting the endless parade of GP40 widecabs that permeated Junction back in the late 1970s, I decided to take a different approach to fighting the impeding boredom brought on by endless Buddcars and Tempo units as well. I decided to try and shoot GP40 widecabs with the sun on the OTHER side !!! Made the day interesting, and besides, it was rather hard to do. So here was the only good result, late day July 4th and an eastbound freight off the hill with CN 9479, 9512 and 9429 as seen from the walkbridge.
Since then, 9479 sold to Alstom in 2001, 9512 went to Mass Bay Transit Authority in 1996 and 9429 was retired in 1997.
Foliage has taken over at Bayview. Unobstructed late day shots like this no longer possible.
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Nice one. We have to try something different at times. I agree with you about the foliage. Getting harder to get a picture at Bayview these days.
I remember when they were the pride of the fleet, used system wide , no dynamic brakes in the mountains. Thats when we were taught power braking. How things have changed
This is interesting that you have some nose light at a late evening shot in July here.
This is hard to do now if not impossible due to growth.
Yeah. Thats why I posted it in the first place. Not a sun angle one would associate with being at Bayview. You probably only had an hours’ chance at the time the sun sets farthest over.
Right – i’m getting wise to this over the years… details matter but damn it takes a while to figure this stuff out