{"id":40498,"date":"2024-11-13T06:34:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T11:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=40498"},"modified":"2024-11-13T08:02:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T13:02:21","slug":"frosty-morning-at-lilly-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/frosty-morning-at-lilly-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"Frosty Morning at Lilly, Pa."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

October had been pleasantly warm in Pennsylvania, so it was a bit of shock when we arrived at Lilly near the summit of the Alleghenies to find it was a raw 27F! Luckily we’d packed some long sleeves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crisp cool air carries the sound well, and long before the headlight came into view, Kris and I could hear this heavy eastward Norfolk Southern freight laboring up the ‘West Slope’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Years ago, I would have used my telephoto lenses to frame an eastward train beneath the classic PRR signal bridge that once stood at Lilly, but this was removed a few years ago when NS resignaled the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notwithstanding, this is still a neat place to watch a train clawing its way upgrade. This was a monster. In addition to locomotives at the headend, there was a mid-train ‘DPU’ (radio remote control distributed power unit), and a helper at the back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made these photos using my Nikon Z cameras. This was the first of several trains we caught that cool morning. Soon the sun was over the ridgeline and we continued a wonderful day of photography!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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