Quid habeo
Monday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
After a short walk on a very warm and humid afternoon your Humble Narrator settled into a pint of Cream Ale at the Sly Fox Brewery, in Pittsburgh’s South Side Flats. Eagerly, I awaited the chiming of railroad signal arms at the grade crossing of the CSX tracks found alongside the business.
There are outside tables here, in an urban park setting alongside the Great Allegheny Passage trail and the Colors Park. I didn’t have to suffer inactivity long before I heard the bells and horns, and those signal arms started to move.
First up was CSX #4736, an EMD SD70MAC model locomotive which was built in 2003.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
From the opposite direction, CSX #4050 soon thundered into view. A rebuilt EMD SD40-3 model engine, it was built in 1981.
As a note, I was using that new superzoom lens, mentioned last week, to shoot these photos. Thereby, these qualify as ‘test images’ wherein I was pushing the thing’s cooperation with my camera’s autofocus systems and try to see where the thing fails.
It performed like a champ, I’d mention.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Also from the same direction, CSX #3312 next appeared. It’s a GE ET44AH model train engine, one of General Electric’s ‘Evolution Series’ locomotives which have been in production since 2003.
All told, I drank two of those Cream Ales and then began my journey back to HQ.
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