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The Merchant’s Engines by Jerry Segrue


The history of the Lackawanna Railroad’s Pacific Steam engines with a concentration on the famous “Streamstyled Pacifics”. This 60 page softbound book includes over 50 photographs and separate scale drawings of each of the four streamstyled engines. Also covered is the construction of the DL&W’s several classes of 4-6-2s and their unorthodox numbering. Member price


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Erie USRA Heavy Pacifics


by D.G. Biernaki


This 80 page book provides comprehensive coverage of these fascinating locomotives


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Take a shot at getting your photo on the center spread of the December 2013 issue of RAILFAN & RAILROAD by entering our 2013 “Center Spread Contest.” Send us up to ten of your best color transparencies or digital images which will capture the power and thrill of trains in action. To be considered, images must fit a horizontal of our center spread. See the September 2013 MARKERS column for details. Closing deadline is October 15, 2013. The First Place winner will appear in the December center spread and the Second Place photo and several Runners-Up will be featured on following pages. Also, The first Place winner will receive a cash prize of $200; Cash Prizes of $100 for Second Place and $50 each for the Runners-Up.


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reading the dark ambient light conditions, autoexposure will pick up on the bright headlights and yield a very dark exposure that, depending on how big the locomotive and headlights are in the composition, may be up to three or four stops underexposed rendering the photo unusable. And autofocus will go haywire hunting back and forth when it picks up on the bright lights, usually just as the train arrives in position for the photo. The accompanying photos taken in dense foggy weather are excellent examples where manual focus and manual exposure should be used. Although with digital, an underex- posed image might be pulled out using LEVELS or CURVES in a program like Photoshop, the end result may be an image with a very harsh contrast and high amounts of digital noise. The solution is to determine the proper exposure before the train arrives with test shots, bracketing your exposures until the scene on your LCD screen looks correct. Then use this manual exposure setting and manual focus mode to take the photo.


Weather Photography Precautions A big problem in wet weather is keeping your camera dry. The obvious way to avoid this is to wait for the train under some form of cover if available, such as a nearby awning or overhanging roof. Or maybe you can park your car in a position to let you shoot out a lowered window as the train ap- proaches. A camera “rain coat” of some sort is also a good option. You can buy a commercially made camera cover, or if you still get one of those old fashioned printed newspapers in


your front yard every morning, save the plastic sleeves that are used on rainy days to make your own inexpensive camera rain coat. Simply cut off the closed end and slip the tube over your camera and lens, holding in place with a rubber band if it fits too loosely. Just be sure the band is not restrict- ing the lens focus ring, and the end of the bag is not hanging in front of the lens. And use a lens hood if you have one to help keep rain or snow off the front lens element. Of course, none of this helps if you have to point your camera into a stiff wind blowing snow or rain onto your lens. In these situa- tions, it may be better to skip the photo, not only to save your equipment from water damage, but moisture on the lens can blur your photo. A clear UV filter on the lens will protect the lens glass, but moisture on the filter can still cause a blurry photo. If your camera or lens does get wet, wipe it off with a dry rag as soon as possible (and use lens tissue on the glass), then place it upside down in the camera case or on the car seat so any moisture that got on the top of the camera or lens will be less likely to mi- grate down through a seam and into the camera or lens body. Finally, at the risk of getting into much


cliché information, I probably need to point out the obvious. Wear the proper cold weath- er clothing, which usually means dressing in layers with the outer layer waterproof, warm gloves, two pairs of socks in insulated boots if in snow conditions, and a warm hat, or sweatshirt or coat hood. And in stormy conditions if any lightning is present, forget the train photo and stay in your car!


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