A week ago, Kris and I had to make the extremely difficult decision to put our dog Boomer to sleep. This was a complicated problem with only one possible outcome.

When I face trying times, I often turn to the railroad as means of getting through. Instead of dwelling on the immediate pain of the uncontrollable, or inevitable, I can focus on rails to the horizon, passing machines and changing light.

On the evening after Boomer’s passing, we drove to Esbenshade Road, where over the summer and autumn, we’d often watched the Strasburg Rail Road. On some of these occasions Boomer had accompanied us and watched with awe as the steam locomotive rolled by with train in tow.

This evening a blood red sunset colored the sky. I made photos with both my Lumix LX7 and Kris’s Fuji XT4 fitted with a new 50-140mm lens. For a few moments, I poured all of my energy into making images of old No. 90 working west in the fading light of an autumn evening.

Bye bye Boomer!

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