I’ve often found that a place appears very different lineside compared to the view from the train.

On a rainy evening, we photographed Amtrak No. 50, the eastward Cardinal, plying the old Chesapeake & Ohio along Old Goose Creek Road between Staunton and Waynesboro, Virginia.

A couple of evenings later we rolled through in the same direction aboard the dome on Virginia Scenic Railway’s Blue Ridge Flyer and I had a complete different impression of this location.

All photos exposed digitally using a Nikon Z6-III with 24-70mm Nikkor Z-series zoom.

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