Jon Celotto
As Good as it Gets
I realized lately that there's a few photos from last year that I never remembered to post on here. I really only save my best photos for Flickr, so I can sometimes forget to post on here. Anyways, here's one of those shots that I'm just now getting around to posting.
Back around Thanksgiving of last year, I learned that CSX's Warsaw to Rocky Mount turn L231 would have a matching YN2 pair consisting of C40-8W #7905 and C40-9W #9004. As most of you know by now, I am an absolute sucker for CSX dash 8s and dash 9s, so seeing this train was a necessity for me. L231 is an interesting train. On Sundays through Thursdays, they run north at around 10 PM and return south anywhere between 2 to 5 AM, meaning shooting them is basically impossible. However, after a day off on Friday, they run north on Saturday in the morning and return in the afternoon in perfect shooting conditions. The Saturday schedule L231 is probably one of my favorite trains to shoot whenever it has something out of the ordinary, and this was no exception. Seen here at probably one of the most overlooked and underappreciated railroad locations in the state, the giant hill out of Dudley just north of Mt. Olive (of pickle producing fame), the beautiful YN2 duo puts on a show lugging a large train of jumbo hoppers and LPG tanks for the numerous feed mills and for interchange with the Clinton Terminal Railroad, respectively.
As Good as it Gets
I realized lately that there's a few photos from last year that I never remembered to post on here. I really only save my best photos for Flickr, so I can sometimes forget to post on here. Anyways, here's one of those shots that I'm just now getting around to posting.
Back around Thanksgiving of last year, I learned that CSX's Warsaw to Rocky Mount turn L231 would have a matching YN2 pair consisting of C40-8W #7905 and C40-9W #9004. As most of you know by now, I am an absolute sucker for CSX dash 8s and dash 9s, so seeing this train was a necessity for me. L231 is an interesting train. On Sundays through Thursdays, they run north at around 10 PM and return south anywhere between 2 to 5 AM, meaning shooting them is basically impossible. However, after a day off on Friday, they run north on Saturday in the morning and return in the afternoon in perfect shooting conditions. The Saturday schedule L231 is probably one of my favorite trains to shoot whenever it has something out of the ordinary, and this was no exception. Seen here at probably one of the most overlooked and underappreciated railroad locations in the state, the giant hill out of Dudley just north of Mt. Olive (of pickle producing fame), the beautiful YN2 duo puts on a show lugging a large train of jumbo hoppers and LPG tanks for the numerous feed mills and for interchange with the Clinton Terminal Railroad, respectively.