equipment for taking a picture of an entire train

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a long time ago it was done with a 1500 pound camera without stitching pictures.

what kind of camera and lens could be used today and how much would the equipment weigh?
 
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Yeah, I'm guessing a bit smaller these days. Considering we were taking pictures from 70,000- 80,000 ft at a speed of about Mach 3 and could read the number on the back of prisoners in camps back in the '60s, I think they have something smaller available by now. Possibly even a camera you could buy at a specialty store would be capable. Cool old picture of guys taking a picture!
 
That camera probably took a photo of a train with 3 cars. Now trains have hundreds of cars. You can take a photo of three rail cars with a standard wide angle lense.
 
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