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YAFYE picture of the day

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Four Yellow Menace locomotives lead a westbound container train across the Sandy River at Troutdale just before noon today, just as the scattered overcast pulled back for my return to Portland (for values of “return” that include “go south to the end of the paved part of the Portland Traction trail, then pick my way home around the walkers and other bicyclists”)

I’d tossed a couple of (unused; once again the only parts of me that got cold cold were my toes and my ears) t-shirts into my rack bag, so I was able to bring the 55mm/f1.8 Super-Tak without worrying so much about it disintegrating on me, so this picture was taken with it (1/250th second exposure @f8.) Everything is manual focus, as usual, which puts me somewhat outside the mainstream for people who use digital cameras.