Taking Movies Of Trains With A Digital Camera
juncture, a whole new world opened up. I could shoot all sorts of videos. I could store them in an album. I could burn CDs or DVDs. I could capture sound. In short, I had everything I needed for shooting railroad movies and still photos right in the palm of my hand.
I knew enough to bring along a tripod so I would not have any erratic jerky movements in my train scene. At my shooting location, I did not have long to wait In the distance, I heard a train horn, and from the sound of things, this guy was running with full power. It was a westbound double stack container with three orange BNSF engines on the head end. A lot of “foreign” power turns up on CSX and I was lucky on this one. My tripod proved invaluable, since I was able to swivel around to catch a “going away” scene.
But what was this? Here comes another train, going
