Sure you don't want to keep the 17-35? I use the heck out of mine- it's just too versatile lose-

Thank you selig1656- I appreciate your comments.
In regard to technique the long story is, driving south, I slowly overtook the train and noted that although the rising sun had not yet cleared the horizon, there was nonetheless soft, directional light that reflected off the train’s cars and had a very nice visual quality.
Ideally a telephoto shot would compress the train’s length, affording a big dose of the reflected light quality while still giving context to the broad delta’s flat terrain and budding sunrise. That’s impossible to capture, with not much light, from a static position and the train is moving along at 60 mph. So the next best thing was to be at equal speed of the train and thus a velocity differential of zero. I’ll have to check the exif data but believe the shutter speed to be about 1/60th with the ISO cranked up as high as I dared. Lens was probably a 50mm at ‘bout 2.8. Manual focus- ‘cause on auto, I could feel the motor hunting between sky, brush, trees and train. I wasn’t looking through the viewfinder- impossible while camera is held above my head and through the sun roof hatch. Camera strap was wrapped around my arm- just in case.
In the end, I didn’t get the shot I’d envisioned but instead have something a bit different and very fun to do. No, I didn’t really have a beer but, I’d already been driving five hours and Bob Seger’s “Roll Me Away” was blasting pretty heavy… that squirrely time of day…

Actually, I had both hands full... :lol:

Ediesaul & Jaymatt- thank you for the kind words. Ediesaul, I too, am a sucker for the American flag...

Ya know, Jung said, “… everything in your dream is you…”

So, his response might be:

Zoh, let oos zee vhat vee can mahke of ziss drim oof yooz und how it appliez do zee votograph ana-loogy …

Vurst, ze kamera, you “Turned it over”--- kreating a new point of few- perrrhaps? A new perzpekertive Ya? Und vith dis nu perzpekertive, you zhook vrom da kamera “wet sand and dirt” in zee large amountz? Zoh, you vehr ferry vull off dis matzerial zat eez oonstable und oonreliable, und oonzutable doo vuild ubon, Ya? But, oontz dis matzerial vas removed vrom zee kamera, it “clicked” still? Diss is goot.

Zee lenz, vich is mizzing, iz a deefront madder. Zee new perzpekertive requirez oof zee fiewer a new vay of zeeing- ze uld lenz eez now oof nein value- eet eez nein necezzary. On ze odder handz, ze mizzing lenz may be zometing elze… Mein Herr Freud, oonze zaid, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”… vee vill nein addddrrrrrezzzz ziz topic dooday.
Und, lastly, you “… woke up”- zis doo iz goot. Obveeouzly, dis drim iz a verrry positive drim. Is Goot.

I love those pinks and purples, tan and grays- such a delicate pastel palette- way too cold for heavy saturation and clear color. Excellent capture.

Wow! Download is best- though I now want a 36" monitor - very nice "feel" to the image.

This was a D600- probably w/28-300 at about 50mm and f4.5- Or, a 50mm 1.8 at f2 or so... It's an exceedingly boring nine hour drive from NOLA to my folk's home in north Arkansas so I try a little photo experimentation along the way...

It's in my car speeding along the tracks with the camera stuck through the sun roof. It was difficult to time the shots to avoid brush and signs, drive and hold my beer, too.

I've always liked driving during that time just before sunrise, when things are in transition; when night creatures scurry home to bed and day ones stretch off sleep. Do you sometimes forget which one you are?

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No, it's not the "City of New Orleans" but, that's where I was headed and that's close enough....

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Great shot - looks like something out of "Watership Downs"

WOW! Lookin' VERY good- good color, good contrast- dead on focus and exposure too. Impressive.

I agree with Bret- though I have the 135/2 edition- it's a great lens -razor sharp- and fast. However, after getting an 85 1.4, and a little lazy too, find I- as other have mentioned- like working a little closer to the subject.

Fish yawn... and fins are too short for a polite covering