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:
@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
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. Let’s go for a walk at the locomotive shed and check out the #8618 yard engine.
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Here are mine for this week -
Lebanon, PA -
Bronx, NY - St Lawrence Ave -
Haverford, PA -
York, PA -
Mount Prospect, IL -
Took my sister and wife out on Friday morning to visit a butterfly conservatory in Deerfield MA and then talked them into going over to the East Deerfield Yard for a quick peek before lunch. A real hit or miss location, we got lucky and watched Berkshire & Eastern back 4 engines into the yard including a heritage unit (3rd engine). Frontier Railroad Services had a half-dozen pieces of equipment that needed to clear the yard entrance (not shown) before B&E made their move which made the short railfan experience that much better. My sister isn't a railroad buff, but said at the end of the day it was a real highlight. Everybody loves a train.
From underneath the Miami Metrorail this morning by the Brickell Station in Downtown Miami.
You have to look closely on the left side concrete beam as the blue paint of the train blends in with the sky.
It's scenes like this why I've always been enamored with the possibilities of N Scale.
After my final shot on a Wheeling chase, I started to head home, but was distracted by a gorgeous sunset (not uncommon for Pittsburgh, when it's not cloudy). I quickly pulled off at a rise on the former Pittsburgh Railways line that had drawn my eye for several years, and anxiously hoped for a light rail trolley to pass for the sun set too much. I know transit and train enthusiasts are not necessarily the same, but I liked this shot because of the glint off the car, despite the wires.
A few days later, a half-mile east and 50 feet higher, I snagged another WE 614 heading east with a train of tanks for the Allegheny Valley Railroad and Norfolk Southern. The former Pittsburgh & West Virginia line shares the ledge with Pittsburgh Regional Transit's East Busway, while the light rail line runs below. SD40-2 6383 is named for the Wheelings former head of maintenance, a bootstraps Rio Grande executive and friend of the CEO who is credited with greatly improving the WE's state-of-repair. Note the squirrel tracks on the ledge.
A brief flurry of snow swept through while the train was stopped at Bruceton to drop the AVR tanks.
In videos this week, first up is a chase of the Norfolk Southern local between Mingo Junction, OH and Conway Yard on what is now known as the River and Bayard Lines. The chase was part of one or two efforts I made in 2023 to see the PRR signals (mounted on Conrail-era masts) that still guarded the Bayard between Vanport and Yellow Creek, and also featured a pair of reactivated (since stored again) SD70M-2s. The day alternated between foggy conditions and brilliant sun.
Second is a May 2023 chase of Maryland & Delaware RS-3m 1201 on a Perdue grain shuttle run from the elevator at Roberts, MD, to the junction at Massey. Usually, the crews starts in Massey, but the previous run's crew had tied the train down in Massey after the elevator was unable to finish loading the train. This was a rare opportunity to take several shots which were usually backlit on the northbound trip in at least partially better lighting.
@Christopher2035 posted:Here are mine for this week -
Lebanon, PA -
Bronx, NY - St Lawrence Ave -
Haverford, PA -
York, PA -
Mount Prospect, IL -
@pittsburghrailfan posted:After my final shot on a Wheeling chase, I started to head home, but was distracted by a gorgeous sunset (not uncommon for Pittsburgh, when it's not cloudy). I quickly pulled off at a rise on the former Pittsburgh Railways line that had drawn my eye for several years, and anxiously hoped for a light rail trolley to pass for the sun set too much. I know transit and train enthusiasts are not necessarily the same, but I liked this shot because of the glint off the car, despite the wires.
A few days later, a half-mile east and 50 feet higher, I snagged another WE 614 heading east with a train of tanks for the Allegheny Valley Railroad and Norfolk Southern. The former Pittsburgh & West Virginia line shares the ledge with Pittsburgh Regional Transit's East Busway, while the light rail line runs below. SD40-2 6383 is named for the Wheelings former head of maintenance, a bootstraps Rio Grande executive and friend of the CEO who is credited with greatly improving the WE's state-of-repair. Note the squirrel tracks on the ledge.
A brief flurry of snow swept through while the train was stopped at Bruceton to drop the AVR tanks.
In videos this week, first up is a chase of the Norfolk Southern local between Mingo Junction, OH and Conway Yard on what is now known as the River and Bayard Lines. The chase was part of one or two efforts I made in 2023 to see the PRR signals (mounted on Conrail-era masts) that still guarded the Bayard between Vanport and Yellow Creek, and also featured a pair of reactivated (since stored again) SD70M-2s. The day alternated between foggy conditions and brilliant sun.
Second is a May 2023 chase of Maryland & Delaware RS-3m 1201 on a Perdue grain shuttle run from the elevator at Roberts, MD, to the junction at Massey. Usually, the crews starts in Massey, but the previous run's crew had tied the train down in Massey after the elevator was unable to finish loading the train. This was a rare opportunity to take several shots which were usually backlit on the northbound trip in at least partially better lighting.
Took my sister and wife out on Friday morning to visit a butterfly conservatory in Deerfield MA and then talked them into going over to the East Deerfield Yard for a quick peek before lunch. A real hit or miss location, we got lucky and watched Berkshire & Eastern back 4 engines into the yard including a heritage unit (3rd engine). Frontier Railroad Services had a half-dozen pieces of equipment that needed to clear the yard entrance (not shown) before B&E made their move which made the short railfan experience that much better. My sister isn't a railroad buff, but said at the end of the day it was a real highlight. Everybody loves a train.
Gentlemen, awesome catches and brilliant photography 
@Amfleet25124 posted:Gentlemen, awesome catches and brilliant photography
Thank you very much Kevin!
Back once again with two more photos a video...this time, the photos are a bit more current, though the video is from (almost exactly) a year ago.
Last Friday, I had the day off work. I had planned for another trip to the Maryland & Delaware, but received word that Amtrak's tri-weekly Cardinal would originate in Indianapolis (not Chicago) with B32-8WH 519 leading. The previous leader, ALC-42 349, allegedly suffered a failure in the magnetic value that PTC used to control the airbrakes; it could still run, but not lead the train. The Cardinal would not get to DC until after sunset, so I resolved to head as far west as I felt comfortable with and get some photos with decent light. My hastily planned chase started with a 3 and a half hours drive to White Sulphur Springs, WV; I managed to get there ahead of the train, but the spot I found was treed in. Even on the winding former C&O, the train manages 60 miles-per-hour over much of its route, so it was not until after prematurely stopping twice that I finally got ahead of the eastbound train at Charlottesville, VA, 4 hours later. Here, the train heads geographic south for the last time as it approaches UVA's steam plant, 2 minutes away from a crew change and station stop.
I got held up in Charlottesville, so my chase of the eastbound ended with only one 'good' photo. 60% of the time, however, when Amtrak has a pinch-hitting locomotive, they send it back to its home rails (or in this case city) on the counterpart train. Consequently, I went out Sunday for the next westbound, and snagged the train on the approaches to the Long Bridge over the Potomac River. I debated chasing again, but decided I did not want to push my luck.
A year ago, I did a joint, more-or-less successful chase of Wheeling & Lake Erie's 663 job. Based out of Falls Junction, on some days the job works industries in Solon and other branches, but we were after the regular run to the outskirts of Cleveland and Ferrous Metals. This job frequently draws four-axles and WE's slowly dwindling stable of high-hood GP35-3s. On this day, we didn't get the prettiest high-hood, but we sill got a unique consist, with GP40-3 302 in its almost-Rio Grande livery, low-nose GP35 101 in P&WV tribute lettering, and one-off gray high-hood 110. We successfully followed the train north from Falls Junction to Ferrous and the nearby stone plant, then had a somewhat rougher time following the train south from there to Akron.
(0:00) Intro (0:10) Falls Jct. establishing shot (0:30) Working Falls Jct. yard (2:40) Departing Falls Jct. (7:00) Lograsso (9:04) W&LE depot, Bedford (10:00) Working National Lime and Stone. (15:24) Working Ferrous (17:24) Departing Ferrous (19:56) Lograsso (22:10) Falls Junction depot (24:10) Arriving Akron (26:22) Yarding at Akron (29:10) Quick photo reel
In spite of the cold temperature, 18 degrees, I took a hike out on Tunnel Drive, near Canon City, Colorado to get this picture today, Feb 18th of the Royal Gorge Scenic.
On the way back from Canon City, came across some Rock and Rail units at Portland CO.
Here are some new ones from me - all on former PRR & RDG iron!
Whitford, PA - The bridge above the train is the abandoned PRR Philadelphia and Thorndale Branch
Lebanon, PA -
Gallitzin, PA -
Devon, PA - Former Reading Silverliner IV 9022 sporting a retro paint scheme ducking under some PRR signals
Hummelstown, PA -
A potpouri of images...
Didn't see anything coming into the west end of the Allentown Yard late Saturday afternoon, but did catch the sunset. Always waiting a few more minutes for the train, but sometimes just being trackside is enough.
Photo of reflection in the windshield was taken from the Doughsie Dough parking lot in Wyomissing. After 2 full days of railfanning, my mind began to wander.
Lastly, the Guilford MEC boxcar was shot in Bethlehem on the north side of the canal heading toward the Allentown Yard. Being a New Englander, I love seeing anything with a home uniform on display.
All photos taken with iPhone 15. Before railfanning days I used to take a lot of photos with dedicated camera system (Nikon/Fuji). There are times I think about bringing the gear, espcially in low light scenarios where you want to get specific with exposure. The pull of a good zoom lens calls me, too, but the post processing to maximize the photos takes more time than taking the photo. Alas, I am too lazy for now - iPhone point and shoot lives for another day.
Mooner, what is it about a beautiful sunset shining on the rails? Always makes for a great photograph.
@Mark Boyce posted:Mooner, what is it about a beautiful sunset shining on the rails? Always makes for a great photograph.
I think it is the idea of there is more - another day, another place, another life. Philosophical but we are all travelers through this life and like the trains we keep moving. The beauty of the sunset holds a lot of promise.
Here’s a lonely caboose on a siding in the Potomac (south branch) river valley, Sunday Feb 23, 2025. The SBVR (South Branch Valley RR) is a 52 mile-long ex-B&O branch in the NE panhandle of West Virginia. This pic is just south of Moorefield, WV. It looked to be on private property so I shot this from SR 55.
Rich
Rich, I know the road, Rt 55 Moorefield. It has been many years since I was there. Thank you for posting the photograph.
More transit photos from me, this time from my 1990 trip to Chicago, chronicled here https://ogrforum.com/topic/chi...here-are-some-photos
These two are from the Berwyn station
2600 Series at an unknown location
Curve by the Merchandise Mart with mixture of 2600 and 6000 Series cars. At 24 years old, I was in love with Pontiac Trans Am's at the time so I'm happy that one of them - a white 1986 bird - happened to drive into the frame as I was taking photos of the train making the curve.
@Mooner posted:All photos taken with iPhone 15. Before railfanning days I used to take a lot of photos with dedicated camera system (Nikon/Fuji). There are times I think about bringing the gear, espcially in low light scenarios where you want to get specific with exposure. The pull of a good zoom lens calls me, too, but the post processing to maximize the photos takes more time than taking the photo. Alas, I am too lazy for now - iPhone point and shoot lives for another day.
Mooner, I'm the same way. I have a DSLR that I take with me along with the tripod when I go planespotting and trainspotting, but for some odd reason after a couple photos/videos, I end up using the cell phone camera (Android) and have the DSLR hanging around my neck. 
New York Subways from 1983 to 1991
Dug deep through the photo album vaults last night looking for these photos that I remembered taking with a good old fashioned 110 Camera so I’m going to share them with you. In chronological order:
4.17.83 – View of the 161 Street-Yankees Stadium station from the Yankee Stadium left field upper deck after the game. People getting ready to board the southbound #4 train which featuring the all white paint job to fight graffiti. The giveaway promotion for this game against the Blue Jays was "Billy's Back T-Shirt Day". I was one of the last folks to leave the stadium as I was running around taking post game stadium photos everywhere, LOL
6.26.83 - View of the Corona Yards and the US Tennis Center from the upper deck of Shea Stadium. R33 cars all decked out in the all white livery. Took these photos during the Mets vs Phillies doubleheader "Mets Warm Up T-Shirt Weekend" was the promotional giveaway.
Next is “Front Door Railfanning 1985” through the front window of subway trains on a random weekday during the Summer when I took ride to both Yankee and Shea Stadiums and then back home to Brooklyn.
First at the IRT Nostrand Avenue station, R-33’s 9067 and 9138 in the ill-advised all white paint job already being defaced by graffiti. Standard practice then, and probably still now, was for the MTA to park express trains at local stations during the day in between the morning and evening peak rush hour periods.
Next is the #4 train exiting from under the ground and going elevated with the iconic view of Yankee Stadium.
Then it’s on to Flushing.
#7 Train between 33 St/Rawson Street and 40 St/Lowery Street. Thanks to Google Maps that didn't exist in 1985, LOL, the train is about to cross over 37 Street, and more interestingly, the McDonald's restaurant sign post on the right is still there 39 years later - Google Street is from September 2024 - but with a different "M" Golden Arches.
Train is now pulling into 40 St/Lowery St with a westbound 7 train to Manhattan also pulling in.
Last is the switch tower over the Grand Central Parkway with tracks going to the Corona Yards and Shea Stadium in the background. Very hard to make out, but the Mets 1985 slogan "Catch the Rising Stars" is on a sign on the facing of the back of the upper deck.
1991 – Photo of the Gun Hill Road station and a southbound Red/Silver #2 SMEE train entering the station. Photo taken from my grand aunt’s apartment, looking west. Had three sets of relatives of my grandparents generation living in that apartment tower, one of which had a 16th floor view south of a few elevated subway lines and LaGuardia Airport. No problem guessing which balcony to find a young Kevin looking out from in the 1970s-80s LOL.
1991 – Metro North action taken from the deck of the Circle Line boat tour around Manhattan. First on the approach to the Park Avenue Bridge on the Manhattan side is a M4 in Red Stripe New Haven colors and then whilst almost under the bridge itself is a M3 with Blue Stripe.
Yes @Apples55 and @RSJB18, I supported both the Mets and Yankees during my high school/college days when I lived in New York.
@Amfleet25124 posted:New York Subways from 1983 to 1991
Dug deep through the photo album vaults last night looking for these photos that I remembered taking with a good old fashioned 110 Camera so I’m going to share them with you. In chronological order:
4.17.83 – View of the 161 Street-Yankees Stadium station from the Yankee Stadium left field upper deck after the game. People getting ready to board the southbound #4 train which featuring the all white paint job to fight graffiti. The giveaway promotion for this game against the Blue Jays was "Billy's Back T-Shirt Day". I was one of the last folks to leave the stadium as I was running around taking post game stadium photos everywhere, LOL
6.26.83 - View of the Corona Yards and the US Tennis Center from the upper deck of Shea Stadium. R33 cars all decked out in the all white livery. Took these photos during the Mets vs Phillies doubleheader "Mets Warm Up T-Shirt Weekend" was the promotional giveaway.
Next is “Front Door Railfanning 1985” through the front window of subway trains on a random weekday during the Summer when I took ride to both Yankee and Shea Stadiums and then back home to Brooklyn.
First at the IRT Nostrand Avenue station, R-33’s 9067 and 9138 in the ill-advised all white paint job already being defaced by graffiti. Standard practice then, and probably still now, was for the MTA to park express trains at local stations during the day in between the morning and evening peak rush hour periods.
Next is the #4 train exiting from under the ground and going elevated with the iconic view of Yankee Stadium.
Then it’s on to Flushing.
#7 Train between 33 St/Rawson Street and 40 St/Lowery Street. Thanks to Google Maps that didn't exist in 1985, LOL, the train is about to cross over 37 Street, and more interestingly, the McDonald's restaurant sign post on the right is still there 39 years later - Google Street is from September 2024 - but with a different "M" Golden Arches.
Train is now pulling into 40 St/Lowery St with a westbound 7 train to Manhattan also pulling in.
Last is the switch tower over the Grand Central Parkway with tracks going to the Corona Yards and Shea Stadium in the background. Very hard to make out, but the Mets 1985 slogan "Catch the Rising Stars" is on a sign on the facing of the back of the upper deck.
1991 – Photo of the Gun Hill Road station and a southbound Red/Silver #2 SMEE train entering the station. Photo taken from my grand aunt’s apartment, looking west. Had three sets of relatives of my grandparents generation living in that apartment tower, one of which had a 16th floor view south of a few elevated subway lines and LaGuardia Airport. No problem guessing which balcony to find a young Kevin looking out from in the 1970s-80s LOL.
1991 – Metro North action taken from the deck of the Circle Line boat tour around Manhattan. First on the approach to the Park Avenue Bridge on the Manhattan side is a M4 in Red Stripe New Haven colors and then whilst almost under the bridge itself is a M3 with Blue Stripe.
Yes @Apples55 and @RSJB18, I supported both the Mets and Yankees during my high school/college days when I lived in New York.
Kevin, I always enjoy your pictures, especially the vintage ones.
Three years ago this week was the Trains Magazine photo charter in Cumberland at the WMSR. It was a great time and 1309 put on an excellent show for us. Here are a few photos I took that weekend.
Excellent photographs, J 611!!
@J 611 posted:Three years ago this week was the Trains Magazine photo charter in Cumberland at the WMSR. It was a great time and 1309 put on an excellent show for us. Here are a few photos I took that weekend.
I love the smell of steam in the morning . Awesome photos
@Amfleet25124 posted:Mooner, I'm the same way. I have a DSLR that I take with me along with the tripod when I go planespotting and trainspotting, but for some odd reason after a couple photos/videos, I end up using the cell phone camera (Android) and have the DSLR hanging around my neck.
Kevin, it's amazing what the phone camera is capable of especially if you only intend to post the content online or share it for viewing on a phone or tablet. I took this shot in the fall up in East Deerfield MA hoping to catch a bit of the northern lights dancing that evening using Apple's night photo setting - not bad. You need a little imagination to see the colors in the cloud (best of the northern lights had passed) but I find it incredible how it picked up the stars and balanced the light highlighting the activity around the engines. A friend has a Samsung phone that produces images better than the iPhone. It's an ever changing world.
Here's some new ones from me -
St Davids, PA -
Boonton, NJ -
Blue Island, IL -
Brooklyn, NY - Hewes Street -
Charlotte, NC -
Not a great snap - but was just pleasantly surprised to see the Nickel Plate heritage unit in a row of four parked NS locomotives west of Birdsboro, Pa., this afternoon, near a line to a quarry.
David
@Dave Ripp. posted:Kevin, I always enjoy your pictures, especially the vintage ones.
Thank you Dave.
We are in Strasburg, Pennsylvania, across the street from The Famous Strasburg Railroad. We spent three nights in Strasburg doing all kinds of train stuff, Amish food and antiquing. Let’s go for a walk in the yard.
The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania is planning on adding a new structure. The Roundhouse. The main purpose of the roundhouse building is to protect and exhibit some of their locomotives and rolling stock that now reside outdoors.
The first two photos show a steam locomotive and boxcar that they are painting.
The last photo shows their “Adopt A Train” To learn more: https://www.rrmuseumpa.org/?s=adopt+a+train
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We spent a few days last week near Two Harbors, MN dog sitting our two grand-dogs while our daughter and husband went on an Anniversary getaway to celebrate their 25th! Had some time for a rail fix. Visited the outdoor display at Two Harbors and the Lake Superior Railroad Museum (LSRM) in Duluth.
The 3-Spot on display at Two Harbors, was the first engine of the Duluth and Iron Range RR. Also on display is Yellowstone #229 which is sister to #227 which is one of the "center pieces" of the LSRM - Duluth.
A few notable pieces in the LSRM collection includes the William Crooks, the first locomotive to operate in the state of Minnesota. 
Another first is the Minnetonka. The first locomotive on the Northern Pacific. It was used to haul track materials and supplies during NP’s westward expansion.
Another interesting piece of equipment is the little Mack #1. The Mack is used as a switch engine moving cars and equipment to different display locations in the museum.
So much to see here that you need to make the LSRM one of your destinations.
One of the museum displays feathers RR lanterns. I have a NP Dressel lantern and got the idea that it needs to be displayed in my train room. Luckily our son-in-law is a hobby forger. Before they left on the getaway, he quickly fashioned a unique hook made from a RR spike to properly support my lantern.
So this post has also become a show-n-tell opportunity!
Cheers, Dave
Dave, that is quite the collection they have at Two Harbors. It’s great you had nice weather. The Mack is certainly something I never saw before.
Just caught this CSX #7277 GE CM44AC pulling a line of hoppers northbound through the Tri-Rail/Metrorail Transfer Station in the gathering darkness.
It was a near meet in the station as a southbound Tri-Rail (marker lights in the distance) had just departed.
At least monthly I've been taking a 40 minute drive northeast to Palmer, MA to watch a lineup of trains pass by the diamond where CSX and NECR come together. Mostly focused on CSX activity I decided the other day to skip waiting on the days activity and instead followed the morning routine of NECR 608 south from Palmer back to Connecticut. Captured it in Monson, MA and again Just south of Stafford Springs CT. The 2nd location is 20 minutes from my house. It could be my new quick fix railfan spot as I think 608 departs mid-morning M-F.
Here are my new ones for this week -
Secaucus, NJ -
Queens, NY - 46th Street/Bliss Street -
Altoona, PA -
My pics are not any where near as high quality as what a lot of you share, but just represent quick pics on my phone while commuting. Life as it appears from the second level of a Metra gallery car!
The Phase VII Viewliners are starting to show up in the Chicago yard! Man do they look sharp. The Siemens locos have been on the scene for quite some time and I just caught a glimpse of the P42 in Phase VII. For some strange reason I now feel the urge to buy one of those Atlas P42s in the new livery!!
Pipes too long for your flatcar? CSX M424 from Selkirk coming into W Springfield will show you how to model it. I love the manifest trains as you never know what you might see.
Here are my posts for this week -
San Francisco, CA -
Dobbs Ferry, NY -
Brooklyn, NY - 7th Avenue -
Berwyn, IL -
Huntingdon, PA -
Living only 15 or so minutes away from Strasburg, it's now pretty easy to stop in the RRMP on a whim. I did so with my youngest last Sunday.
Here we have a few cars on the Nebraska Central RR. This is the ex UP line from Columbus Ne north 40 miles to Norfolk. This train is northbound about 3 miles north of Madison. 3 miles south of the siding where Agrex loads unit trains of grain. Anywhere from two to four trains on a good day. Was led by 2 big UPs and a 4 axle Neb Central loco. Norfolk has steel and alcohol and grain traffic. Rail is mostly ribbon.
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.
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