T.G.'s Photography Blog

I didn't buy a solar filter for my lenses to use during the eclipse, since I decided to just wait until totality to take my image. I snapped a quick shot of the eclipse's totality, and then spent the rest of the time enjoying the eclipse with my family and a few friends. Sometimes it's best to not always be looking through a camera. Photo taken: August 21, 2017. Nashville, TN.

May 3, 2017. Dallas, Texas. A DART train rolls down Pacific Avenue, after having just left the Akard Station. Just before I had taken this image, a brief but powerful rain storm had just blown through the downtown area. Photo © Tom Gatermann.

November 2, 2005. Dupo, Illinois. As a stack train rolls south under the old cantilever style signal in Dupo Yard, UP 6510 sits waiting for the green so its train can also head south on the Chester Subdivision. The train streaking by is a stack train, however, I can't remember if it was going north or south. Photo © Tom Gatermann.

January 8, 2006. Sherman, Missouri. As the sun sets, its golden light is cast upon the rails of the Union Pacific's Jefferson City Subdivision. Seen here are rail welds that have been reinforced with track joint plates. Photo © Tom Gatermann.

January 8, 2006. Sherman, Missouri. Union Pacific (UP) 4780 leads a manifest freight train west on the UP's Jefferson City Subdivision. The subdivision gets its name from Jefferson City (JC), the capital of the State of Missouri. The train will head west to JC, and then on to Kansas City, and possibly points further west. Photo © Tom Gatermann. #UnionPacific #railroad #railway #railroadphotography #winter

August 12, 2017. Adams, Tennessee. While I was driving along CSX's Henderson Subdivision, I spotted what looked to be construction work progressing on a new bridge span to cross the Red River. I'm not sure if this is for a double-tracking project or just a new replacement bridge. Photo © Tom Gatermann.

August 12, 2017. Springfield, Tennessee. CSX 3372 leads an empty coal train north through Springfield, TN., on CSX's Henderson Subdivision. Photo © Tom Gatermann.

August 12, 2017. Hopkinsville, Kentucky. CSX 3037, CSX 156, and CSX 16 (partially hidden behind the coal cars) are on the point of a coal train that is getting ready to depart CSX's Casky Yard. The train would later head south on the Henderson Subdivision. Photo © Tom Gatermann.

August 12, 2017. Trenton, Kentucky. The old 225 milepost marker near Trenton, KY., on CSX's Henderson Subdivision. It seems that these old mileposts are still fairly common on the Henderson Subdivision. Photo © Tom Gatermann.

CSXT 3165 northbound at MP 214, just to the southeast of the KY-TN state line. CSX 3165 leads a northbound empty coal train  on CSX's Henderson Subdivision, at mile post 214. This location is at Al Carter Road, and is southeast of Guthrie, Kentucky . The train is in Tennessee at here but is closing in fast on the Tennessee-Kentucky border, which is about a mile northwest of this location. Photograph taken on August 12, 2017, near Adams, Tennessee.

Windows on the Hôtel Place D'Armes in Montreal While standing in the Place d’Armes, in front of the Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal (Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal ), the windows on the Hôtel Place D'Armes caught my eye. I found it intriguing that each row of windows was different then the row above or below. Photograph taken: July 16, 2013, Montréal, QC, Canada.

April 23, 2006. St. Louis, Missouri. This view is looking up between the old standpipe and the stairway inside the Compton Heights Water Tower. The water tower is no longer used, but once or twice a year it is opened to the public for people to climb the stairs to the observation deck at the top. The water tower wasn't a typical one that held water, but served as a way to manage the water pressure in the city's water system. Photo © Tom Gatermann.

June 20, 2008. St. Louis, MO. In this view, flood waters from the Mississippi River can be seen from the steps on the east side of the Gateway Arch. Between the fence and the flags is Leonor K. Sullivan Blvd. Photo © Tom Gatermann.

June 20, 2008. St. Louis, Missouri. Seen here passing under the Eads Bridge are empty coal cars on a southbound train that is rolling along on the TRRA's riverfront high line. At this time the Mississippi River was flooding the St. Louis riverfront. Photo © Tom Gatermann. #StLouis #railroading #flood #monochrome #train #river

April 29, 2010. Nebraska. Photo © Tom Gatermann.

A view down an alley way in the early morning, after an overnight snowfall. I was on my way to work, and after the garage door opened and I saw the telephone poles and wires against the sky I thought it was an interesting urban view. Photograph taken: February 1, 2008, at St. Louis, MO.

A Sea of Bridges June 9, 2007. St. Louis, Missouri. An empty Union Pacific coal train sits on the western approach of the MacArthur Bridge (owned by the TRRA), above 1st Street. The lower bridge is Union Pacific's Lesperance Street Yard high line, a connection between Gratiot Interlocking to the west and UP's Lesperance Street Yard to the south. Photo © Tom Gatermann.

UP 8197 and the Wall of Fans June 9, 2007. St. Louis, Missouri. Union Pacific (UP) 8197 is the distributed power unit (DPU) on an eastbound coal train that is on the west approach of the MacArthur Bridge. The train is passing over South 7th Street at Gratiot Street. Photo © Tom Gatermann.

String of Hoppers Taken on: June 9, 2007. St. Louis, Missouri. In this view, looking east down Lombard Street, an empty Union Pacific coal train can be seen stopped on the west approach to the MacArthur Bridge. Photo © Tom Gatermann.