Panoramic View of Abo Canyon, New Mexico with Westbound Autorack and 3 Eastbound Stackers

            A Panoramic shot of Abo Canyon looking west. The head of this Autorack train will shortly cross over Bridge Number 2 with the tail of the train currently crossing Bridge number 3. In the far distance 3 BNSF Intermodals wait patiently for the Westbound to pass so that they can then proceed on their journey East.

For the record the shot was taken at 9.10am and motive power consists of BNSF 8628 (B40-8 in Heritage 1) on Point, supported by Burlington Northern 7270 (SD40-2 in Cascade Green).

This was one of my favorite locations to shoot trains in whole of the USA. Access to where the shot was taken required a 30 minute "off road" scramble in the GMC Yukon, followed by a 10 minute walk to the cliff tops. Unfortunately BNSF have now fenced off the area, making this shot rather difficult, if not impossible to replicate in the future.

A note on the Hasselblad Xpan. The camera was ideal for this kind of shot and whilst the Xpan produced acceptable images, I always thought that the lenses, marketed as Hasselbad, but in reality produced in Japan, were never up to the quality of Zeiss or Leica.

Hasselblad Xpan
30mm/F5.6
250/F11
Fuji Provia 100F

Taken in: United States / New Mexico / Becker (show map)

Taken on: May 22, 2003

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