For many years I have had the thought that it would be interesting to spend the first day of summer track side from sunup to sunset.
Yesterday Kevin (railcop) and I did just that at Rochester, Pa. Here are some of the pictures.[attachment=7924]
It started off with turning the camera on and finding out all the settings were gone, so I got everything back to normal except the time on the picture. This was the first train we saw, an eastbound about 5:48 AM just a couple minutes after sunrise with the light still pretty low.[attachment=7923]
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We could actuaally see the CSX trains as they crossed the Ohio River, thought they were quite far away.
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8:08 PM and there was still one waiting for track east at the west end of Rochester interlocking, but we decided that we had had enough for one day, and would probably not have any light anyway.
It was a great day and I really enjoyed a day out railfanning.
Cheers
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HAHA! That's devotion! And I love the last photo - I was hoping you would include your "setup".

Did you get any train symbols? Inquiring minds and such.

Hi Kevin
Here is one of Kevin about 3 PM
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These old night turn guys have some trouble staying awake all day.
Charlie

railohio Wrote:Did you get any train symbols? Inquiring minds and such.

I never saw any reason to get train symbols, it just isn't important to me. I gave up "paper work" when I retired.
Sorry
Charlie

Charlie---WOW !!!!!---what a great way to start the summer.Those pictures brought back some fond memories Interesting consist in the train lead by #3338---are those tanks ?