Starting with the videos this week, in the fall of 2023 I made my first trip out to Staunton, VA to chase the Shenandoah Valley Railroad. This shortline is owned by a group of shippers at Weyers Cave who contract out to the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley and their fleet of first-generation diesels for operations. Precision Locomotive Leasing also stores locomotives they are storing for restoration or between leases on the line. The combination can result in some model railroad-esque consists; on this day, one of SVRR's two GP-9s ran light up to the Norfolk Southern interchange and picked up three PNLX (former Maryland Area Rail Commuter) GP40WH-2s. The trio would be stored in Weyer's Cave, since several other PNLX units, including a Western Maryland-painted SD38P and SD35, were in the yard at Staunton.
Speaking of commuter trains, I made a trip to the Hudson Valley and Connecticut to see family and friends and shoot several railroads; probably the most humdrum of the bunch was the afternoon I spent on Metro-North's Waterbury Branch. I went on a weekend, so operations consisted of one so-called 'mini-bomb' trainset of a Brookville BL20GH facing north and three coaches making 6 runs between Bridgeport and Waterbury. I was able to make three chases of the train between scenic Ansonia and Waterbury, where state highway 8 parallels the tracks. 
An old industrial spur(?) over the tracks south of downtown Waterbury.
A derelict factory north of the Ansonia platform.
Old New Haven signal at a junction near Derby.
Ansonia from the river walk trail. Waited a little too late into the afternoon to try this spot.
