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Blaze it
Blaze it: Powell's Creek, located in Leesylvania State Park, is a GREAT place to watch trains. The other morning, I woke up at 0500, grabbed a coffee, and headed out to catch the morning rush on CSXT's RF&P subdivision. This is home rails for me, the northern main runs about 2 blocks from our apartment, and I have really grown to like working this line. The allure of getting up early is Amtrak's auto train: if they're on time, they're usually into Lorton around 0900, making Powell's an ideal spot to shoot them. The morning cloud cover challenged me to forego the classic bridge shot, and think of something different, a hallmark of my good buddy Dave Blaze. As I heard the engineer call P052 clear of Powell's, I thought "this is the blaziest thing I have done in a while." And so here we are from a fine sunday morning on the RF&P, as Amtrak's northbound auto train cruises northbound through the gorgeous scenery of the RF&P sub, almost home to Lorton.
Blaze it
Blaze it: Powell's Creek, located in Leesylvania State Park, is a GREAT place to watch trains. The other morning, I woke up at 0500, grabbed a coffee, and headed out to catch the morning rush on CSXT's RF&P subdivision. This is home rails for me, the northern main runs about 2 blocks from our apartment, and I have really grown to like working this line. The allure of getting up early is Amtrak's auto train: if they're on time, they're usually into Lorton around 0900, making Powell's an ideal spot to shoot them. The morning cloud cover challenged me to forego the classic bridge shot, and think of something different, a hallmark of my good buddy Dave Blaze. As I heard the engineer call P052 clear of Powell's, I thought "this is the blaziest thing I have done in a while." And so here we are from a fine sunday morning on the RF&P, as Amtrak's northbound auto train cruises northbound through the gorgeous scenery of the RF&P sub, almost home to Lorton.