I saw something else!! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070350/ … or, "Super Fly", a popular genre from my youth!
The crew did eventually turn the ditch lights on. As we passed the train, on the highway, lights were back on. Was an interesting time!
Perhaps the most Random Railfan Prototype Photo ever (and rambling addition slightly related subject matter)!!! Found as I cleaned out old drugs, medications and several cans of decades old shaving cream given to me by Mom even though she knows I don't SHAVE!!! I'm thinking that I will seal them in resin! (the Amtrak soap. The old cans of shaving cream are headed to the trash (at last))!!! P.S. Did I mention a brown bag full of disposable razors (I will keep for hobby use)? I guess Mom wants her baby to shave!!!???
Nice parka! I'll railfan in nearly any weather. I have been found in -35 windchills with the camera at the ready. This was one such day at that ludicrous number:
Two shots taken at the former PRR station at Newark, NJ in July 1976, with CNJ (New York & Long Branch) trains.
Also seen that day at Galesburg, IL was SDP-40F 587 leading an Amtrak train. My notes show that this unit was destroyed in a wreck within the next year at its birthplace at LaGrange, IL on 08-27-1977 when its train collided with a freight train that had derailed.
Future Tech. Original media, film in a Canon T50, scanned with a HP flatbed scanner (circa 2005). Then original media shot with a Samsung S7. … in theory, the phone images have better resolution than the scan. What do you think?
On a typical hot, muggy NJ day in July 1976, a big G arrives at Newark. The GG-1s often ran with the rear pan up for reliability. If the front pan were instead raised and it fouled in the wire, it'd carry back could tear the rear pan from the roof. The grille seen on the side was an addition made to many Gs to improve ventilation to equipment after an unusual winter storm in the latter 1950s brought snow with tiny flakes that passed through existing filtration and shorted electrical gear.
I can play that little game... If you go left, you'll end up in Laurel, MT. If you go right, you'll go to Ft Benton, MT on a dead-end branch. Great Falls, MT, at the Missouri River bridge:
An Eskimo maybe. Not a parka either! It’s actually a woman’s full length blue/white fox fur coat. Custom made to my measurements! Because I liked the look of it!! 26* at the point, and other than my face and hands freezing, I was comfortable! Get many nice comments about it, whenever I wear it out! Nice for rail fanning, if it’s cold out! Was a bit surprised to see as many trains as we did, especially over the weekend! Saw 3-4 loads and maybe 6 empties over about 2 1/2 days. Cold, but fun. Until it was time to head back home! What took 3 1/2hours to get there, took about 6 to get home! Weather was unbelievable!
As seen at Knoxville, TN in 1976 and 1977. That's L&N S-2 2327 to the left of former SAL C-420 1376. C-628 7519 is former ACL.