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An absolute terrible trainwatching day in Berea, Oh.  Not one interesting train.  But, this counts.  It is vintage, it is an engine and it is passing by railroad tracks, lol.

John

It's been a horrid summer for me, as far as RR photography.  It rained hard for most of June, that washed out the tracks for my four closest railroads.  It took a month to get them all back up.   All the water caused the population of the aggressive flood mosquito to sky rocket.  Those I can deal with using bug spray, but the buffalo gnats also exploded.  Those are small biting flies that swarm you and cause intensly itchy welts for two weeks.  Think of them as flying chiggers.  The storms often had lightning, about the only weather condition that nearly terrifies me.  (With good reason!)   Summer is usually my slowest time of year for photos anyway, but this one has been slower than usual.  I still have next month's train trip across Canada to look forward to though.  Here's a few I did take with my old cameras so far this summer:

1. UP manifest train n/b at LeMars IA.  There was a CN train waiting just out of view on their line.  The lines combine and are shared at this point on to Sioux City IA.  Camera was my 1942 Leica.

2. D&I train crossing the Sioux Falls (SD) trestle.  Camera was a Chamonix 4x5 & lens was a c.1922 Heliar 15cm.  Heliars are my favorite lenses!

3. A CP SD-40 sits on the edge of the DME yard in Huron, SD.  It is slowly being eaten by cannibals.  Camera was a 1905 Century No.46 (4x5) with 1905 Velostigmat lens.  This is a gorgeous camera and was big money when it was new.

Kent in SD

Here's are three from July at the St Louis Museum of Transportation featuring UP #4006 and N&W #2156 early, early in the morning - looking good!  The last shot is the east portal of the West Barrett Tunnel - a former Missouri Pacific tunnel that I understand saw the sole 2-8-8-2 MP Mallet in pusher service.  Too bad the museum couldn't get it's hands on it!  Two MP steam engines survive - both 4-6-0's, one (#635) is preserved at the museum.  

I was there with the "early bird" seen above left in the Big Boy pic on the catenary wire, lol:

/Mitch