Lets See Your Night Shots

Here are two pictures from the Illinois Railway Museum's annual Members' Night operations on Sept. 18, 2004.


The Nebraska Zephyr awaits its passengers at the East Union station.


Chicago Aurora & Elgin car 431 rests between runs at East Union.

Wow, there's some great stuff here. I pop in to the Amtrak forum now and then, but I didn't realize there was a photography forum until now.

Anyway, here's a few contributions to the topic. These two were shot with a Canon S50 digital camera, hand held, but steadied by a fixed object.

I shot this from the vestibule of #14 in Oakland last February. I got in scolded by the attendant for opening the window. It was worth it.


On that same trip we saw this when we got off in Salem. I held my digital camera against a lightpost.


These links are to pages of a 2002 travelogue which contain several night shots. They were shot on film, all hand-held, with a 24mm lens. The scans were done on an older scanner, so they aren't real crisp, but you get the idea.

This page contains some more shots at Oakland:
http://hometown.aol.com/toysontrax/trav ... ne-02.html

The bottom of this page has some shots of Amtrak #11 and the UP yard at Klamath Falls:
http://hometown.aol.com/toysontrax/trav ... -02p6.html

Here's a night shot of the Princeton "Dinkey."

http://kpiersol2.rrpicturearchives.net/ ... x?id=66307

Kim Piersol

Over time I have gotten fairly decent at night photography. Here are some of my shots . . . the second one, although not truly a night shot, it is one of my favorites.

http://railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=85269

http://railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=83578

http://railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=82347

http://railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=82344

http://railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=79832

http://railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=76155

http://railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=75578

Hope y'all enjoy!

Well here are some more night shots i got.

http://trainfreak.rrpicturearchives.net ... x?id=59576
http://trainfreak.rrpicturearchives.net ... x?id=59474
http://trainfreak.rrpicturearchives.net ... x?id=59577
http://trainfreak.rrpicturearchives.net ... x?id=59578
http://trainfreak.rrpicturearchives.net ... x?id=60381
http://trainfreak.rrpicturearchives.net ... x?id=60382
http://trainfreak.rrpicturearchives.net ... x?id=60383
http://trainfreak.rrpicturearchives.net ... x?id=60385
http://trainfreak.rrpicturearchives.net ... x?id=60386

I hope everyone enjoys these shots.

I do a little night photography but I'm old fashioned, here's what I use: Pentax ZX-M 35mm Camera, Kodak E100VS Pro 35mm Slide Film, Tripod, Cable Release, lots of luck! Here's a few of my better night photos:

P42DC #70 in Cleveland, OH on Train #49:

http://www.trainweb.org/amtrakpix/locos ... K070A.html

A couple photos of "The Federal" in Philly sometime around 12:30am!

http://www.trainweb.org/amtrakpix/itrai ... index.html

Train #49 after arriving in Buffalo-Depew Station:

http://www.trainweb.org/amtrakpix/itrai ... ex.html#66