Experimenting with my Sony R1 digital camera's high-sensitivity settings, I went to Union Staion in Little Rock Saturday night, April 22, 2006 and took the following photos. ISO was set to 3200 and the flash setting was brightened. Since the sensitivity was set so high, some scenes are almost too bright and of course, they are noisey and grainy, especially if you zoom in. Also, the splotches on some photos apparently are common occurrences of night flash shots taken with digital cameras of dark backgrounds. I also read some sites that say they are actual 'orbs' or ghosts that the camera's high sensitivity is seeing. If so, then the really bright  'orb' in front of the SP locomotive must be the ghost of a very important engineer of the past!! Anyway, they are probably just the result of refraction in the lens (which is perfectly clean). Also, the splotches don't show up in the same place twice.

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LEFT-A BNSF gon was on the Little Rock & Western track, part of the nightly BNSF local waiting to get back to the UP yard.  I was standing on the Amtrak platform, about 8:45  p.m. RIGHT-Approaching UP train at 8:48 p.m.


LEFT-UP 1538. RIGHT-UPY 928. Notice at this angle there are no 'orbs' or splotches.


Former SP 1477.


LEFT-UP 596.  RIGHT-A green MKT hopper.