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Seamus at Christiana on Christmas

Back when Seamus was just a wee pup, Kris and I had brought him over to Christiana to roll by Amtrak’s Keystone. I made a photo of him watching the train race past.

Seamus is now a full grown dog, so yesterday—Christmas Day—I thought it would be nice to make some follow-up photos from the same location.

Over the last year and half, Seamus has become in tune with passing trains and waited with Kris in expectation.

Much to our delight, Amtrak 670 blitzed by on schedule .

May 2024; Kris and Seamus roll by Amtrak at Christiana, Pa.
Seamus was just a wee pup back then.
Fast forward to Christmas Day 2025; Kris points out Amtrak 670 approaching Christiana.
And there it goes. ‘Hey Seamus, did you catch the number of the engine?’

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Ten Years Ago at Deep River, Connecticut.

While on the theme of tourist railroads on the old New Haven Railroad at Christmas, I thought I’d present this ten year old color slide.

In December 2012, Tim Doherty and I had visited Connecticut’s Valley Railroad that was featuring its Chinese-built 2-8-2 Mikado dressed in New Haven paint on its Christmas trains.

In the late afternoon light, I made this Fujichrome Provia100F slide at Deep River using my Canon EOS-3 with 40mm pancake lens.

I scanned the slide last night and processed the 4000 dpi TIF file using Lightroom. Below are two versions. The top is a scaled, but unadjusted, version of the original scan. The bottom one has been altered to more closely resemble the effect of 1950s Kodachrome film

Scale JPG from original TIF file without adjustments to color, exposure, contrast or sharpness.
Slide adjust to resemble a 1950s Kodachrome.

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Cape Cod Central’s Polar Express

On our Cape visit, the Cape Cod Central’s Kaylene asked if we would like to travel on their Polar Express.

Silly question.

She asked Kris and me, if we would take a few photos of the experience.

Of course we did.

And these are just a few of Nikon Z6 digital images I made that night.

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