I'll start with a pair of photos from a bountiful, if somewhat monoculture, Thanksgiving up in Pittsburgh. On Wednesday, after chasing Buffalo & Pittsburgh train PW-1 south to the refinery at Wahlville, I decided to go see what my old Butler stand-by BT-3 was up to. I found the crew switching the Calumet refinery in Karns City; after an hour, they moved into a photographable area while working the Sonneborne refinery in Petrolia. I took advantage of the cloudy day and climbed down to water level for a normally backlit shot of the train working the plant heading north.
On Friday, after some family time in the morning and some decision paralysis, I went out to catch Wheeling & Lake Erie local 614 running to Clairton with GP40-2 302 leading. Four axles don't show up often on the former P&WV/present day WE east of Brewster. I was too late to catch the unit in the lead, but I scaled a hill and got a decent going-away shot as the power ran with their spacer car in the lead to pick up coke loads at Monessen.
In videos this week, I have a chase from last May of a pair of former Monongahela Railway B23-7Rs on the Ohio Central, specifically the CNL-1 job from Morgan Run to Brewster. The patchy paint of 4094 really highlights the many owners this unit has had since its MGA days (Conrail, NS, New Castle Industrial, Ohio Central, and finally G&W).
Finally, a mediocre effort at chasing the Maryland & Delaware's run to Townsend with a borrowed SW1200. I accidentally bumped my white balance setting, so despite my post-production edits, everything still has a red cast.
