Trackside at Pinkerton Horn, 2012/7 by Paul Heckbert

A huge cut is being dug in the ridge of Pinkerton Horn to "daylight" the CSX railroad tunnel, to allow taller rail cars to use the line. At image center, through the trees, is Pinkerton low bridge, which was built for the Western Maryland Railway and is today used by the Great Allegheny Passage bike trail.

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See also

view from the top of the cut: gigapan.com/gigapans/108788
view from here, 2011/11: gigapan.org/gigapans/92098
Stitched with GigaPan Stitch, then cropped with Photoshop.

Stitch notes:

GigaPan Stitch.Efx version 2.0.0500 (Macintosh)
Panorama size: 2282 megapixels (59396 x 38428 pixels)
Input images: 112 (16 columns by 7 rows)
Field of view: 185.4 degrees wide by 119.9 degrees high (top=29.9, bottom=-90.0)
Settings:
Vignette correction on: c1=-0.00567 c2=-0.00234
All default settings
Original image properties:
Camera make: Canon
Camera model: Canon EOS REBEL T2i
Image size: 5184x3456 (17.9 megapixels)
Capture time: 2012-07-01 13:41:42 - 2012-07-01 13:46:33
Aperture: f/11
Exposure time: 0.005
ISO: 200
Focal length (35mm equiv.): 118.0 mm
White balance: Fixed
Exposure mode: Manual
Horizontal overlap: 32.4 to 41.3 percent
Vertical overlap: 30.5 to 34.1 percent
Computer stats: 12288 MB RAM, 8 CPUs
Total time 33:35 (18 seconds per picture)
Alignment: 1:40, Projection: 3:47, Blending: 28:08
(Preview finished in 13:12)