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Submitted: May 13, 2010
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Santa Fe thunderby *DragonWolfACe

Digital Art / Drawings / Still Life

I did this in about the most difficult way I could. I used two layers. One for the clouds which I copied from one of my pictures, the other for coloring ontop of the drawing. Yes, OVER the drawing on the same layer! Its no wonder it took me 10 hours to finish.

Santa Fe 991, the hottest fastest freight in the United States hauls a mile long train of tractor trailers at 70MPH across the Mojave desert. Its counterpart 199, is the only train equal in priority. Today, they survive as BNSF Z trains, hauling what they did in ATSF days, UPS goods. These trains ran cross country, Los Angeles to New York city. From Chicago to New York, they ran on Conrail's water level route and ran as TVLA westward and TV10 eastward. Trucks may deliver but the train hauls it!

Just imagine what they would sound like...cant? Here! Make sure you have your volume as LOUD as it goes!

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1:40, they are going 70MPH and are in idle.
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I can tell you after spending many nights trackside along CSX around Willard, Ohio that trains DO sound louder and look larger. Just imagine being half asleep 20 feet from the tracks when a train comes by. Damn.
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Just pacing some ACe's.

This is the first drawing of my "thunder" series

...<---------Second!