Midweek Photos 10/24/2012

 

Just how bad was the rain falling that day?  Here is some video of the rain at Flemington, NJ.  Plus a bit of audio on the whistle.  Enjoy!

Tim, always like your steam shots.  Doesn't look like I'll get any more of my own until next year as winter is setting in.  This week I have one photo, which I'll call "The Memorial."  It's from the D&I (Dakota & Iowa) Railroad at the wye in Elk Point, SD.  I had met up with D&I conductor Tom there and we chewed the fat while waiting for the train to come & he could throw the switch.  I noticed a pair of old boots propped on a stick along the tracks and asked about them.  Tom said they belonged to D&I conductor Stubbs.  He was always complaining about those old boots and how they leaked and hurt his feet.  So back in April he bought a new pair.  While he was waiting in the truck for the train to come to the wye, he took his old boots off and tossed them by the tracks and put the new boots on.  A week later Stubbs suddenly died.  Tom said he took Stubb's place and saw the boots lying there while he was waiting for the train.  He said he took the boots and made a sort of memorial to Stubbs out of them.  I took the shot with my Rolleiflex.  I focused on the boots and shot it using f3.5 to blur the train in the background.  The thought I had was of life passing us by after we die. 

 

 

Kent in SD

Pen-Mar MD park train

 

 

 

and a modern replica on exhibit in Brunswick MD

 

 

October 3, 2009

 

Pere Marquette 1225 and Nickel Plate 765 back up to do a photo run by in Lucas, Michigan!

A CN GP38-2 going over the Clinton River in Mt Clemens, MI

 

My wife and I returned Monday night from out York trip, by Amtrak, as always.  For a boy from the hinterlands of Arizona, it is always a thrill for me to be able to see high intensity passenger railroading that the East Coast offers.  Here are a few shots from the trip.

The BWI airport station, Amtrak at its best.

 

From the top of the parking deck at Washington Union Station, looks just a model railroad from there!

 

B&O Railroad Museum, the fall colors made the outdoor displays that more colorful

 

CTA in downtown Chicago, for me classic urban transportation

 

Ogilive Transportation Center in Chicago, more great urban transportation

 

And finally, at Albuquerque.  We were running ahead of schedule (as was most of the six trains we rode on the trip) so we had a full hour to stretch our legs.  A Railrunner came by just in time to make the photo.

Great photos everyone. Thanks for posting them.

 

I'll second that - especially like the photos that were recent.  It's cool to see

what happened recently when we ourselves may have been shooting something

else.  So many choices, so little time! 

 

Great shots, Tim - nice to see #60 out and about!  Didn't hear about the charter, though I'd have been stuck at work anyway.  Still - I did manage to catch a Strasburg double header revenue freight run BEFORE work!

 

Strasburg  Wednesday, October 24th, 2012:

 

/Mitch

 

Wow, Mitch! How on Earth do you still find a different angle on the Strasburg? Excellent shots As for your job, I thought you were a full time steam photographer!

Thanks Chris!

 

Tim - full time weekends perhaps...

Though - Strasburg's operation starts at 5:30 AM and wraps up

early enough to still make it to work running just a little late.

 

One more steam powered revenue freight scheduled for 2012 for

anyone interested, this Wednesday 10-31-12.

 

/Mitch