Hi, I spent February 25 through March 5 in the company of good friend Dave Busse railfanning in the Southwest. Our trip began when he picked me up at the Ontario, CA airport and ended there the morning of March 6.
The primary objective of our trip was to photograph the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad's rotary snow plow OY as it cleared snow on the west slope of Cumbres pass during the weekend of 2/29-3/1. A secondary objective was photographing the Escalante Western Railroad near Prewitt, NM.
I have decided to present this blog by covering the rotary snow plow first, the Escalante Western second, and BNSF (the railroad we photographed on our way to and from Chama, NM and the C&TS) last.
The first day of snow plow photography was between Chama and the New Mexico/Colorado state line. The photos here are in no particular order except that the first photo was taken at our first photo stop.
There were 150 of us on four buses. The buses would let us off at a photo stop, the plow would run by us and then stop, and the buses would take us to the next location. A contingent of New Mexico State Police controlled traffic in our viscinity. The railroad's staff did an excellent job of organizing this event.
This is just north of the first crossing of New Mexico route 17 and the railroad.
When I started to process this image I realized there was very little color so I decided to try it in black and white.
Thanks for looking.
The primary objective of our trip was to photograph the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad's rotary snow plow OY as it cleared snow on the west slope of Cumbres pass during the weekend of 2/29-3/1. A secondary objective was photographing the Escalante Western Railroad near Prewitt, NM.
I have decided to present this blog by covering the rotary snow plow first, the Escalante Western second, and BNSF (the railroad we photographed on our way to and from Chama, NM and the C&TS) last.
The first day of snow plow photography was between Chama and the New Mexico/Colorado state line. The photos here are in no particular order except that the first photo was taken at our first photo stop.
There were 150 of us on four buses. The buses would let us off at a photo stop, the plow would run by us and then stop, and the buses would take us to the next location. A contingent of New Mexico State Police controlled traffic in our viscinity. The railroad's staff did an excellent job of organizing this event.
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