Thanksgiving Choo-Choos
Thursday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Happy Turkey day, all. As described in prior posts, one was executing a long walk across the municipal center of Pittsburgh when it started to rain. It was absolutely pissing down, and I deployed my umbrella. The section of the city I was scuttling around is absolutely lousy with passing trains, so I decided to capture some of the Choo-Choo action.
That’s Norfolk Southern #1162 in the shot above, which is a location and composition I’ve wanted to capture for a while now. It’s an EMD SD70ACe model locomotive and relatively young by railroad standards, coming online in April of 2004.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
In what’s surely become a familiar location to long time readers by now, I headed down to a reliable grade level crossing for the CSX outfit nearby a brewery. I ordered a drink, and sat at an outside but sheltered table while waiting for a few trains to arrive.
CSX #868 came roaring through first. It’s also a fairly modern setup, having come online in April of 2008. That’s an ES44AC-H model, built by General Electric.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
CSX #3173 was next. Same model and make as the #868 mentioned above. It was raining significantly at this point, so the big difference is that this one was all wet from the rain.
Taking photos at night is old hat for me. Taking photos of enormous things moving at 30 mph is another matter. You’ve kind of got to focus and then track them as they’re going by twisting the waist. Challenging.
Back tomorrow.
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