March 2022
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Jim Wrinn
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Yesterday I learned the very sad news that my friend and long-time Trains Magazine Editor Jim Wrinn had passed away. RIP Jim!
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Porto Metro-March 30, 2019
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Three years ago, March 30, 2019, I exposed this view of the Porto Metro at Trindade Station.
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Extra 255 at Frankenstein
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On Monday, March 28, 2022, Conway Scenic began the process of clearing the former Maine Central over Crawford Notch.
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Amtrak Train 43—Pennsylvanian at Lewistown.
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We arrived at Lewistown Junction, Pennsyvlania a few minutes before the scheduled arrival of Amtrak’s westward Pennsylvanian (train 43). We had stopped at a nearby Sheetz for burritos to go.
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Reading 2102 Revisited
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In the 1960s my father, Richard Jay Solomon, made numerous photos of Reading Company’s famous Iron Horse Rambles. This included countless photos of Reading T-1 2102.
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Three years ago at Luso
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On this day three years ago (26 March 2019), Denis McCabe and I photographed CP (Comboios de Portugal) train IC513 crossing the massive valley-spanning viaduct at Luso-Bucaco, Portugal.
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Rare Bird on the Reading & Northern
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A week ago (March 18, 2022), Kris and I called into the Reading & Northern at Port Clinton, Pennsylvania.
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Reading Company 800
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Among the most interesting and unusual pieces on display was Reading Company 800, a perfect example of an overhead electric multiple unit car that once operated on suburban lines in the Philadelphia area.
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Amtrak Train 654 passes Gap
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Working with the Amtrak/Via Real Time Live Map ap (https://asm.transitdocs.com), I was able to pinpoint within a few minutes when Amtrak 654 eastbound from Harrisburg would pass Gap, Pennsylvania, where Kris and I were waiting for the train.
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Atmospheric East Broad Top shops
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During our tour of the East Broad Top Railroad last week (March 2022), I made a variety of atmospheric interpretive images inside the old shop buildings at Orbisonia, Pennsylvania.
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Look what we found at the Railroad Museum of PA!
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Last week on our visit to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, Kris and I called into the gift shop where we discovered that my latest book, How Steam Locomotives Work, is now on sale!
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The Other ‘Millie’.
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Last week Kris and I were given a tour of the East Broad Top facilities at Rock Hill Furnace, Orbisonia, Pennsylvania and I was reacquainted with Millie, a locomotive I hadn’t seen or photographed in nearly 25 years.
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Prague, October 2016
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Here’s another view exposed on the Czech Fomapan 100 black & white film at the Praha-Smíchov railway station in the Czech capital.
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Steam Silhouette
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Strasburg Rail Road’s former Canadian National Railway 2-6-0 made for a stunning silhouette against a late winter sky.
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Wine & Cheese bucking Snow at Dusk
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200mm zoom. These images were edited from the camera NEF (RAW) files using Adobe Lightroom.
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Snow Train at Attitash
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On the last weekend of Snow Train, I traveled on the headend of the first Saturday departure with engineer Wayne Duffett.
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Old 89 at Black Horse Road
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Late season snow blanketed the ground and was still falling, when Kris & I caught former Canadian National Railways 2-6-0 number 89 leading the return run from Paradise.
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Snow and Shadows at Esbenshade
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Fresh snow and fierce wind made for challenging conditions on the Strasburg Rail Road at Esbenshade Road.
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Strasburg Rail Road in the Snow.
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Yesterday morning (Saturday March 12, 2022), heavy wet snow fell on Strasburg, Pennsylvania.
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Overgrown freight wagon—Prague
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On a visit to Prague, Czech Republic in October 2016, I bought several rolls of local produced Fomapan black & white film.
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Kingsbridge (Sean Heuston Bridge) at Dusk.
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My old LX3 was a wonderful and convenient tool for making urban images. Although more difficult to use, looking back I think it produced better compositions than its LX7 successor. That said, I’m on my 3rd Lumix LX7!
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Dublin’s LUAS at Heuston-10 March, 2014 & 10 March, 2015
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In the evening on 10 March 2014, and again one year later, I captured views of the passing trams at Heuston.
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Stacumni Bridge Two photos a year minus a Day.
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I visited Stucumni Bridge on the Dublin-Cork line on March 9, 2016 and March 8, 2017.
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Eight Years Ago on the Bog!
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On March 8, 2014, photographer Dennis McCabe and I followed this Bord na Mona empty train compass west from the Edenderry Power Station to this rural level crossing near the village of Daingean, Co. Offaly
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Up IWT Liner-Five Years Ago
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The RAW file was a little on the dark side, so I adjusted the image using Lightroom. I lightened the shadow areas, while working with the ‘Select Sky’ feature to hold detail in the sky area.
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PC Reflections
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I was visiting Delaware & Hudson’s Colonie (NY) Shops in June 1989 where I found this old Penn Central E8A.
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GoPro on the Loco
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During the last week I was using a GoPro camera to film the view from New Hampshire’s Conway Scenic Railroad Snow Train.
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Frozen Saco at Milepost 64
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The other day, I exposed this sequence of digital photos while traveling on Conway Scenic’s Snow Train along New Hampshire’s Saco River on the former Maine Central Mountain Division near milepost 64.
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Moonscape on the Kanc
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I made this time exposure looking east with my Nikon Z6 fitted with 24-70mm zoom firmly attached to my Bogen tripod.
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Sky in the Shadow of Guinness
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LUAS tram 3019 decorated to advertise Sky television was working westbound toward its station stop at Heuston when I made a snapshot with my old Lumix LX7. The Guinness Brewery at St. James Gate looms to the left.
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Mount Washington Looms Large.
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The other day, I caught a returning Snow Train at Intervale, New Hampshire with the great mass of Mount Washington looming 18 miles to the North.