This One Hurts
Just like a shot of an ARR coal train I shared not too long ago this really hurts. While it looks cool as a thumbnail when I zoom in it's enough to make me want to retch. And sadly this can not ever be repeated. I was shooting with a lower quality lense back then that just couldn't figure out where to focus when shooting wide, It hurts....but at least I have the memories.
This is obviously a Pan Am Railways special with the two OCS FP9As and two heritage GP9s trailing two business cars enroute to the Glory Days of the Railroad Festival in White River Junction. PAR 1 and PAR 2 are ex Canadian National FP9s 6505 and 6516 built in 1954 and 1957 respectively by GMDD. They passed from CN to VIA Rail in 1978 before being picked up by the Conway Scenic in 1995 when they expanded into Crawford Notch. After 15 years spent hauling tourists in the White Mountains 6505 & 6516 would become PAR 1 & 2 when traded to Pan Am Railways in March 2010 for GP38 252 and GP35 216. The two trailing 'heritage units' are unfortunately now landlocked on the Heber Valley Railroad in Utah. Numbers 52 and 77 are very much on home rails here but wear schemes they never would have worn originally. Both are former Boston and Maine GP9s blt. Dec. and Jun. 1957 as numbers 1726 and 1738 respectively and delivered in McGinnis blue, white and black 'bluebird' paint.
They are northbound on the former Boston and Maine Railroad Conn River mainline (now the New England Central Railroad's Palmer Sub) at about MP 163.7. They are crossing one of the most famous structures on the route, the Sugar River High Bridge, which crosses its namesake river and Main St. / NH Route 103 on this 684 ft long and 130 ft high deck girder span dating from 1931.
Claremont, New Hampshire
Friday September 12, 2014
This One Hurts
Just like a shot of an ARR coal train I shared not too long ago this really hurts. While it looks cool as a thumbnail when I zoom in it's enough to make me want to retch. And sadly this can not ever be repeated. I was shooting with a lower quality lense back then that just couldn't figure out where to focus when shooting wide, It hurts....but at least I have the memories.
This is obviously a Pan Am Railways special with the two OCS FP9As and two heritage GP9s trailing two business cars enroute to the Glory Days of the Railroad Festival in White River Junction. PAR 1 and PAR 2 are ex Canadian National FP9s 6505 and 6516 built in 1954 and 1957 respectively by GMDD. They passed from CN to VIA Rail in 1978 before being picked up by the Conway Scenic in 1995 when they expanded into Crawford Notch. After 15 years spent hauling tourists in the White Mountains 6505 & 6516 would become PAR 1 & 2 when traded to Pan Am Railways in March 2010 for GP38 252 and GP35 216. The two trailing 'heritage units' are unfortunately now landlocked on the Heber Valley Railroad in Utah. Numbers 52 and 77 are very much on home rails here but wear schemes they never would have worn originally. Both are former Boston and Maine GP9s blt. Dec. and Jun. 1957 as numbers 1726 and 1738 respectively and delivered in McGinnis blue, white and black 'bluebird' paint.
They are northbound on the former Boston and Maine Railroad Conn River mainline (now the New England Central Railroad's Palmer Sub) at about MP 163.7. They are crossing one of the most famous structures on the route, the Sugar River High Bridge, which crosses its namesake river and Main St. / NH Route 103 on this 684 ft long and 130 ft high deck girder span dating from 1931.
Claremont, New Hampshire
Friday September 12, 2014