Southbound at French River - a photo on Flickriver

Providence & Worcester train WONR heads southbound through Thompson, Connecticut along the French River. The train, which operates between Worcester, Mass. and Plainfield, Conn., has just finished up pulling empties from a customer, and is beginning their trek south.

This was the start of a very productive nighttime chase with Sean Hoyden of Night Stalker Photo Works, who was up here on business, and had a free evening. So naturally we teamed up, and hit the P&W. It wasn't exactly our plan, but things fell into place and we caught this job at a few spots over the course of the evening.

Two separate photos were used to create this - one longer exposure for the sky, and a shorter flash-lit for the moving train. There were no material edits done to either photograph, and they were simply merged together.

Strobist Info: Three flashes. One Alien Bee B800 with an 11" long throw reflector off the frame to the right, one Lumedyne 400 w/s off the frame to the left, on the near side of the tracks and a Westcott Strobelite off the frame to the left on the far side of the tracks. All triggered with Paul C. Buff CyberSync triggers. Flash layout overlaid on Google maps:
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Taken in: United States / Connecticut / Thompson (show map)

Taken on: January 19, 2017

Sets appears in: • Providence & Worcester Railroad

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Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II, f/9.0, 19 sec, 17mm, ISO 1600 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens:	17-50mm
Aperture:	f/9.0
Exposure Time:	19
Focal Length:	17mm
ISO:	1600
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Bulb
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Unknown (-1)
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6.7 (Windows)
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