Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: plattsburgh

When I took this, Amtrak ran a seperate Sunday schedule for trains #68 and 69, the "Adirondack" service from NYP-Montreal, with the Sunday Adirondack getting numbers 70 and 71. I've always liked this shot, even if many "serious" photographers haven't. It is a bit abstract, as you can't see the features of the train, so it's more an emotional than a "tech" shot. I hope you like it. :-)

I've always liked this photo, even if many serious photographers haven't. They say it's "boring," but most of them aren't railfans! From the technical point of view, the contrast is a bit low, but since it was a gloomy Plattsburgh winter day, if I were to up the contrast on this, the detail and the grit of the scene would be lost. For the railfans, though, it's a nice shot of an F40PH in the last years of F40 haulage on Train #68, the "Adirondack."

This photo is a little bit grainy, which is a result of a high-contrast print being fed into a primitive scanner. I apologize in advance for that, but I posted it anyway because I love the composition. Maybe in the future I'll post a rescanned one, but for now this will have to do.

This was taken minutes after my "arriving in" shot, which has gotten so much attention. I've been praised for the puddle reflection on this shot, but I'm posting this mainly because it goes with the other one.

Plattsburgh is known for its winters, and right after I got my first-ever SLR (my Nikon N6006), and began learning black and white photography properly, I instantly tried to take advantage of the bad weather to take dramatic photos. This was a blizzard on the 24th of February, 1998 (when I found this today, I also found the exact date!!), and this shot shows us some of SUNY Plattsburgh's highrise dorms, with Adirondack Hall, the newest of the lowrises as of then, on the lower right. This one, in original form, looks better, but my teacher thought I was crazy. What do you think of this shot, though?

I'm roughly certain that this was taken in 1997, although it could have been late 1996. One way or the other, this locomotive doesn't show up on many CP rosters, and the reason is that it is a former D&H locomotive, which means that it got bounced around quite a lot. It wasn't even originally D&H, as the D&H bought it from Lehigh Valley in 1976 (according to what I could find online. It looks, also, very old, but actually it's not an original GP38, but a GP38-2, albeit one from 1972.

I took a lot of photos of Amtrak trains coming in and out of Plattsburgh when I studied there. This is one of my favorites, of an F40PH with some kind of wreck damage on the nose.

This is one of my only, and perhaps my only, good shot of an F40PH taken from above. This was a southbound, which could only be train 68, the "Adirondack" for New York Penn. It's slowing for Plattsburgh station, which is in the distance, around the curve and on the right side of the tracks.

Here's...another F40PH!! :-) This one is departing Plattsburgh, southbound with Train 68.