I’m remided of the famous painting showing the race between Pennsylvania Railroad E6s Atlantic 460 and a mail plane, both carrying newsreels of Lindburg’s famous transatlantic flight.

Yesterday Kris, Seamus-the-Dog and I waited at Esbenshade Road for the Friday evening departure from Strasburg. I was positioned on the north side of the crossing. As the locomotive came into view working across the fields of soybean and corn, I spotted a small aircraft flying alongside the train.

Time waits for no one, and I had only moments to compose a photo of the race.

In 1927, the E6s Atlantic, a famously poweful and fast machine, made the best of the plane. Not so at Esbenshade. The buzzing light aircraft gain altitude and whizzed ahead of the plodding excursion.

I made these photos using my Nikon Z-series mirrorless cameras.

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