A sea of rust

Dominated by rusting derelicts, the view across the far end of the WR&N yard is a study of oranges and browns. While the cropped version of this image does not work as well compositionally, the blurriness of the foreground is distracting. And so this image serves better as documentation of what part of the now-destroyed layout looked like circa 1999. By the way, the caboose storage shed at the back is a bashed bobber I did in 1973 for the first WR&N. Prior to its new duties here, it received a coat of paint, heavy weathering, and a Micro-Trains smokestack.

Image specs: This is a 35mm Ektachrome 200 slide taken with a Canon TL and a 50mm lens modified with a 300 micron pinhole. Illumination consisted of three 500-watt daylight tungsten photofloods. Exposure was in the range of 30 seconds to a minute. The slide was digitized with a Konica/Minolta Dimage Scan Dual IV. Brightness, contrast, gamma, hue and saturation were adjusted for best appearance on the internet; aside from this, the only digital manipulation performed was the removal of dust specks.

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