Last week on Sunday, September 9, Union Pacific brought their steam engine UP 844 and the UP 150 Express to Ames, Iowa to celebrate the 150th anniversaries of both Union Pacific and railroads in Ames. I managed to get videos of it in a few different places. First
where I rode past the train on my bike. I think it turned out not too bad. But this was all lead up to what I thought of as the main event. After leaving Ames, 844 would take the Express back west over the Kate Shelley High Bridge, something I wanted to see as soon as I heard about this excursion months ago. I got to the bridge in time to join at least a dozen other people there and set up my camera exactly where I wanted it. But I wasn't lucky this time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Dz2hD9yPI
Another train came from the west on the near track at just the wrong time to block all of 844 and its train on the bridge. I suppose it was better having a container train than any other train since the spaces inbetween the containers are wider.
Has anyone else here planned a shot for months only to have it ruined at the very last second? How often does this happen? And is there a term for when the train you want to see is blocked by another train (since railroaders and railfans have invented so many terms for so many things)?
where I rode past the train on my bike. I think it turned out not too bad. But this was all lead up to what I thought of as the main event. After leaving Ames, 844 would take the Express back west over the Kate Shelley High Bridge, something I wanted to see as soon as I heard about this excursion months ago. I got to the bridge in time to join at least a dozen other people there and set up my camera exactly where I wanted it. But I wasn't lucky this time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Dz2hD9yPI
Another train came from the west on the near track at just the wrong time to block all of 844 and its train on the bridge. I suppose it was better having a container train than any other train since the spaces inbetween the containers are wider.
Has anyone else here planned a shot for months only to have it ruined at the very last second? How often does this happen? And is there a term for when the train you want to see is blocked by another train (since railroaders and railfans have invented so many terms for so many things)?