The Newtown Pentacle

Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labi

I can hear that train a-coming…

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Friday

– photo by Mitch Waxman

A humble narrator is taking the week off from the usual folderol, and on offer are single shots captured sometime in the last year since relocating from ‘Home Sweet Hell’ back in NYC to Pittsburgh.

Pictured above is a Norfolk Southern Freight Train, moving along the south side of the Monongahela River, with the former Pittsburgh & Lake Erie RR station building in the background.

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Kwazy Kwanzaa, and Happy New Year to you all. 2024 is going to be a real whopper, I think.

Back next week for a walk over the Birmingham Bridge, continuing the walk from Pittsburgh’s Downtown, to Uptown and beyond.


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Written by Mitch Waxman

December 29, 2023 at 11:00 am

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  1. Happy Hanukkah to you too!

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    dbarms8878

    December 30, 2023 at 8:58 pm

  2. […] pictured, specifically that gravel driveway that meets the rail bed, is where I caught one of my favorite train shots of the last […]

  3. […] of my favorite shots from last year was captured up near those tracks (location, and shot), when another Norfolk Southern unit was thundering through in the opposite direction. Apparently, […]


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