Happy New Year
by Fuchs on 12/28/11
Steve Fuchs began photographing trains in the mid-1990's. Early in life, our children thought a park was a gravel access road along train tracks. In addition to the camera bag, we always took the "train bucket"- shovels and little trains for them to entertain themselves while we waited for the real trains.
Our family lexicon includes "gipped" and "zapped." Gipped is when the radio alerts you a train is approaching (the right direction at the right time of day) but you arrive too late photograph the engines. Gipped. Zapped is when you are already camped out at the right spot, the right time of day, the right train on the right track, you are poised and ready to snap a shot but at the last possible moment: A cloud blots out the sun. Zapped.
