Archive for March 7th, 2024
Listen for it
Thursday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
While scuttling back to the T light rail station after a short walk, where a humble narrator hoped for transit egress back to HQ, a Norfolk Southern train was spotted rolling along its elevated tracks. Remember, yesterday, when I was musing about owning a better telephoto zoom lens than the one I have for random times when a long reach would be handy? Situations like this one are why I covet such things.
One 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, there was a pretty dramatic derailment in this area a few years ago (2018) that saw train cars falling over the edge of the track bed, which damaged the light rail station. Wow.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Those tracks up there are set against Pittsburgh’s Mount Washington prominence and are pretty busy, to my observation. This is the south side of the Monongahela River, and downstream – after the ‘Mon’ joins with the Allegheny to form the headwaters of the Ohio River – there’s a bridge which allows these trains to cross the water and continue on westwards using the northern shore of the Ohio.
There’s a medium sized rail yard kind of nearby that those tracks go through, one which I haven’t gotten close to yet. It’s on my list, however. So’s Christmas.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Now that things are warming up a bit here, I’ve got a few things I want to check out on that extensive ‘got to check that out’ list of mine.
In particular, I’d like to pay some more attention to the steel mills east of this area, check out what I can see around Norfolk Southern’s regional ‘home base’ at the Conway Yard, and get a shot of the Westinghouse Atom Smasher.
Back tomorrow.
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