2008 05 09 QCMRRA IMG_0001 rotated cropped

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This is an HO scale model of a rare 5 axle diesel visiting the Queens County Model Railroad Association and Empire Valley RR. Most have either 4 or 6 axles. The middle axle on the back truck lacks a motor (in the prototype), but helps carry the extra weight of a steam generator for passenger service. LI 2404 is a CPA-24-5 C-Liner built by Fairbanks-Morse between March 1950 and March 1952. It's on track 1 in Clifton, with an industrial spur in the foreground, none of which is supposed to show very much.

I took 24 close ups of this loco, but only the first picture that night was close enough to facing perpendicular to the rails and upward enough to see the wheels as well as I wanted to, but the locomotive looked like it was facing slightly downward, so I rotated it, and I had always intended to crop away much of the foreground and background anyway.

   

Taken on: May 9, 2008

Tags:

train

railroad

locomotive

gray

2008

Alex A. Yusko

Weekly Photo Scavenger Hunt

Yusko

Fairbanks-Morse Diesel Locomotives

HO scale

Queens

QCMRRA

Empire Valley RR

Fairbanks-Morse

Empire Valley

NYC

New York State

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Groups appears in: • Queens County Model Railroad Association and Empire Valley RR • Fairbanks-Morse Diesel Locomotives

Camera: Canon PowerShot A95, f/8.0, 1/60 sec, 7.8mm (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon PowerShot A95
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	0.017 sec (1/60)
Focal Length:	7.8mm
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	On, Red-eye reduction
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 Windows
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