June 2023
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Strasburg’s Surreal Smoky Sunset
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Yesterday evening the air and sky were thick with particulates. The landscape took on a surreal unworldly appearance.
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Rosy Keystone Approaching Greenfield.
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Kris and I took a short drive over to Amtrak’s Harrisburg Line to catch Amtrak’s Keystone service train 653 that was down about 18 minutes from the advertised.
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NS Local Freight at Dusk
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Amtrak’s former Pennsylvania Railroad Main Line from Philadelphia to Harrisburg runs a short distance from our new home.
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Steam and Shadow at Esbenshade Part 2
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Esbenshade! What a great name for a crossing suited to silhouette?
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Amtrak Schedule tip! Coming and Going on the Main Line at Christiana, PA
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The Saturday evening Kris and I stopped by Christiana to make a few photos an approaching eastward Keystone.
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Steam, Smoke & Sky at Esbenshade
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Yesterday evening, Kris and I photographed Strasburg Rail Road’s 6pm excursion approaching Esbenshade Road.
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Conrail 6281, Again
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There I was standing on a bridge in the wind to make a photograph of a common SD40 while looking far into the future.
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Freight Crossing Tunkhannock Creek
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With Norfolk Southern SD70ACe 1021 leading a heavy freight in our review mirror, we drove expeditiously south on Highway 11 toward Nicholson, Pennsylvania—location of the famous Tunkhannock Creek Viaduct.
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Ghost of Phoebe Snow—Fortuity at New Milford
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Last Sunday, we exited Interstate 81 at New Milford, PA to get gas. This was the last leg in our big move, and our third drive from New Hampshire to Pennsylvania in the last month, My plan was to follow…
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White River Junction: Six Photos-Four Locomotives
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I like my view of Boston & Maine 4-4-0 No. 494 with a GATX leased engine in the distance.
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Revisiting Ashland, New Hampshire
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After Plymouth, we drove south along the old Boston, Concord & Montreal route to Ashland, New Hampshire, where I photographed the restored Boston & Maine station there.
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Vestiges of the Boston & Maine at Plymouth.
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It has been an age since Plymouth was an important place on the old B&M, but the rails, albeit rarely traveled, remain in place. The station building is now occupied by the local seniors center.
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So, when was this?
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I offer these timeless views of a wooden body caboose at Bartlett, New Hampshire.
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Backlighting on CP Rail at Pewaukee, Wisconsin.
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Near Pewaukee Lake, we heard the blast of an approaching eastbound freight on Canadian Pacific. With little time to spare, I made this hastily composed grab shot of the train running along the north shore of the lake. In the lead was a former BC Rail locomotive. High contrast made for a challenging scene.
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Sunset at North Star Road
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There was a heavy sky at sunset last night, grey with particulates and low cloud. Kris and I turned down North Star Road to make photos of the red globe in the sky.
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CSX RAW and Adjusted
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Daybreak on June 15, 2015: I set up in West Warren, Massachusetts to wait for CSX’s westward Q009 intermodal train out of Worcester.
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Meet at Cherry Hill—Eight Photos
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Monday while waiting at Cherry Hill, as we anticipated Strasburg Rail Road No. 89 on its return run from Leaman Place, we heard a horn to west . .
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Breakfast Stop with a Mogul or ‘Steam at Cherry Hill’
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Yesterday morning, Kris and I got take-away breakfast from the Spreckled Hen in Strasburg, Pennsylvania. We drove over to Cherry Hill Road to roll by the 11am train to Leaman Place and enjoy our food.
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DL&W’s Nicholson Station
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At Nicholson, PA we paused so that I could make a few photos of the old DL&W station that remains located adjacent to the former railroad bed. In the distance the massive Tunkhannock Creek Viaduct rises above the town.
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View from the Observation Car-looking back at North Conway.
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At the end of May, I was traveling on the back platform of Conway Scenic’s 125-year old open observation car Gertrude Emma on its morning run to Conway.
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Hobo Sunset—Lincoln, NH
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Kris and I paused at Lincoln, New Hampshire last week to get some dinner and as the sun set I made a few photos of the Hobo Railroad using my Lumix LX7.
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First of my New Series in July Trains
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My copy of the July 2023 Trains Magazine arrived yesterday. Pages 46 and 47 feature the first in my Travel series that focuses on destinations, train travel and historic railways.
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Backlighting
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I was set up to make a video of Conway Scenic’s Sawyer River crossing the Ellis River at Glen, New Hampshire. My Nikon Z6 was mounted on the tripod for a telephoto sequence of the train heading west through the…
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Connecticut Company 1160
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While visiting the Seashore Trolley Museum at Kennebunkport, Maine, Kris and I went for a spin on car 1160, a 117-year old New England Classic. When this car was new, electricity was still a novelty and many homes across the…
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Trains-Beyond the Byline
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On June 4th, Trains Magazine’s web edition featured me in its ‘meet the author’ style series ‘Beyond the Byline’.
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Technicolor Trolley
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Painted in the classic ‘Traction Orange’ car 639 featured an old advertisement for a movie filmed in ‘Technicolor’.
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June 3, 2015-Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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On this day eight years ago, I visited Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I’d taken Amtrak’s Keystone from Philadelphia and upon arrival spent some time in the State Archives visiting with Kurt Bell while researching for a book on steam locomotives.
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Gertrude Emma on the Roll at 125!
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I made this panned view of popular Pullman open observation car Gertrude Emma crossing the bridge.
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Pick One—Which View is More Interesting
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Yesterday morning, I traveled on the 1100 Conway Scenic excursion to Conway, NH. After the locomotive ran around and was doing its continuity brake test, I exposed a series of telephoto photos of the train.
