Trains on this day in the past:

[Charlie B]

Nice to have a spot where the road parallels the track, and a driver who can maintain the pace. 

However, if I hadn't seen that picture, I'd certainly question that weathering job if it were on an HO scale model E-unit...who'da thunk that you'd get bow-wave type weathering that pronounced, and from both sets of trucks, too!

Wayne

The story behind this photo starts with a move on the Southern Railroad by the Royal Hudson, 2839. We were waiting for it to show southbound when we got a heads-up that they were waiting for people that were on a late arriving Crescent. There is a nice stretch along here so we proceeded to the other end of the straight stretch hoping to pace the Crescent which had just came under Amtraks wings but was still Southern powered. The video is great but I never got a copy, and the fellow that took the video just recently passed away. We got to 70 MPH and the engineers side had 3 people watching us. When the 2839 showed up we did the same thing in reverse but at an even faster pace because they removed the speed limit (or turned a blind eye) trying to gain back some time.     
Those were wild and crazy days.