Another great day of rail-fanning with good friends Charlie and Doctor Wayne three years ago today at Enon Valley



Charlie was an excellent guide,he sure knows where to catch all the action---here's some more photos taken on this day back in 2012

The last shot was a hoot. We got snookered.
Charlie

Charlie B Wrote:The last shot was a hoot. We got snookered.

And here I was thinking that it was a carefully crafted and staged artistic shot.
I enjoy this thread.
Cheers the Bear.

CSX works a pier at Locust Point, Baltimore, MD August 1998.

Bruce

August 13, 1980. Kittanning, Pa.[attachment=23708]
Charlie

13/08/2012---day three of our rail-fanning excursion.Just when I thought things couldn't get better,Charlie had a few more surprises.

The last shot was a hoot. We got snookered.
Charlie[/quote]

I think this was the first time I ever cursed while railfanning.Charlie had found the perfect location to catch the Nickel Plate Berkshire---an isolated siding far from the crowds of "foamers''---a long stretch of straight double track with a sweeping curve to the left.As we anxiously waited we could hear the locomotive in the distance,saw her smoke and listened to her whistle at a crossing just around the bend---of all the earlier shots we had taken,I figured this was going to be the best yet.As the nose of the Berk came into view and I raised my camera for the first shot a local freight led by a pair of Norfolk Southern's black diesels interrupted this idyllic scene and quickly overtook the steamer on the inside track.Charlie says we were "snookered"---at that particular moment I felt we had been royally screwed

"snookered"---at that particular moment I felt we had been royally screwed

Memories, always good. :mrgreen:
Charlie

Here's a westbound at East Palestine in August, 1977.[attachment=23709]
Charlie

A year ago in East Liverpool, Ohio.[attachment=23720]
Charlie

Sebring, Ohio last year[attachment=23738]
Charlie

Conrail SD40 6285 (ex-CNJ 3061) leads a grain train east through East Palestine, Ohio 8/17/1980.[attachment=23743]
Charlie

In 1977 they still used cabooses. 8/18/77[attachment=23744]
Charlie

One year ago today in my hometown

8/19/1977 The morning mist is still rising and Conrail SD40 6336 (PRR 6083) leads a mixed freight toward Conway, Pa[attachment=23745]
Charlie