What are the odds? Captured photos of CSX's EMD GP38 #2025 on consecutive days. This time was at the Deerfield Beach station on Saturday afternoon where it stopped on the northbound track, left its load on top of a turnout and moved on. The freight cars were eventually moved - when and how I have no idea - as I went back inside to the 1/87 trains inside the club layout at the station, and the cars were long gone when I left later that afternoon.
Drove up to Little Falls along US 5 in the Mohawk Valley on Friday and then made our way back to Connecticut on Saturday. A few inches of snow overnight made for a beautiful albeit cold day. Using a CSX autorack train as a prop here are 3 observations:
- Insane how fast the trains race through Fonda.
- Insane how close the town fenceline is to the tracks.
- Insane how quickly your fingers freeze with no gloves and a wind chill in the low teens!
@coach joe posted:With all the traveling you apparently do, one never knows which roads and locations to expect when we railfan with you every week. The one thing one can expect is high quality photographic compositions.
I like to keep you guys guessing !! Thank you for the kind words! I appreciate it !
Moon, You were so close to me and didn't come by and meet us. We are 20 minutes from Fonda. The D&H is in our backyard. Bill Park
November 17, 2024 - The Strasburg Railroad Yard & Switcher
We are at the Strasburg Railroad, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. We spent three nights in Strasburg doing all kinds of train stuff, Along with having dinner at The Shady Maple Amish Smorgasbord. This is the largest buffet in the United States with excellent food and prices. Being from Michigan we do not have Waffle House Restaurants. We had dinner at one of these and I had the famous T-Bone Steak. We also had dinner at the Caboose Restaurant in a Classic Pullman Car. Letβs go for a walk at the locomotive shed and check out the #8618 yard engine.
A friendly reminder: Check out the 2024 Year in review! β’ Rail-fanning on The OGR Forum π
@ https://ogrforum.com/topic/188663164620590116
Hope to see you out rail-fanning: Gary π