We arrived at Reading & Nothern’s East Mahanoy Junction a good five minutes before the Fall Foliage Excursion returning from Jim Thorpe was due to pass.

This is a neat place on the former Reading Company to make photos. In the last couple of years, I’ve made images here from a variety of different angles.

For these views, I was standing on Slate Road from a position that offers a bit of elevation.

As the train came into view, I used my Nikon Z7-II with a 70-200mm zoom to frame up of the leading locomotives in the shadowed curve on approach to the junction, then made a series of wideangle photos from the same vantage point of the train in back lit autumn sun using my Z6 with 24-70mm lens.

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