Rock Island caboose has seen its days as it is parked in Clarence, IA. April 9, 2022 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
CP train 148 (renumbered recently from 198), the daily Vancouver-Chicago intermodal, blasts thru Logan, ND at track speed.
Sometimes you just fight the sun angle and hope. NS 21E had a colorful consist of NS 8101, CoG, and NS 8114, original NS, sandwiching a Western visitor this morning at Wernersville, PA.
Wow, that's quite a catch there @Sepp K ! The NS line near our house is north/south, so shooting anything northbound is near impossible. There's short stretch of east/west on the line north of here and it works a lot better.
Nope. '58 was the first year for double headlights on each side. This might be a '57. Can't quite be sure without some magnification. If so, hard to believe someone would waste a body of that year, when they are worth a ton of money these days.
This line is roughly East-West, but it's amazing how many times the most interesting train of the day is coming out of the low sun. It's great for eastbounds in the AM and westbounds in the PM, but it seems like they run them opposite of that just for spite.
Then there're the locations like this. As taken today, L647 at Lugoff, SC with the sun dead on the nose and both sides in shadow. A lot of locations on this line are like that in the afternoon and it makes me crazy. I count my blessings though. PTC killed off this daily train in favor of another route, a bummer because this line (the former SAL main) sees scant traffic. After 3 years, CSX just reestablished the run.
Yeah, that's why I referenced my eyesight. I couldn't make out whether the headlights were double or not. So, I thought '57 too but same reasoning. Why would anybody waste a '57 Chevy for that? Or, a '58, for that matter. Hmm, the bumper/grille (down low) does look like a '57, though. Where are those digital photograph enhancers when you need 'em? Doug