Consolation Prize
So to begin, I've been trying to get out every single Tuesday possible this fall, as I'm taking a semester off to figure out where I want to finish off my Bachelor's Degree and haven't ever really been able to take advantage of a full fall of shooting until this year. Working six days a week I'm usually only able to get trackside on Tuesdays, but this week I took Monday off as well to shoot the CP F units. The rumor was Tuesday would be the day for the BKRR, but nobody knew if it would pan out due to PanAm's sporadic service. Some of you know how many times I've tried to shoot the BKRR in the past two years. It's never worked out. So, after getting my last set in of the F units in Plattsburgh and grabbing dinner in Saratoga I hatched a plan. I knew that there was a good chance of the NS units that CAF is testing showing up on a Driftwood turn. Favoring the BKRR only slightly over this move, I camped out in Eagle Bridge so that if the loads arrived overnight as planned I'd know to stick around. Well, by 0600 nothing was lined through and nothing had arrived so thinking it was a bust I raced down to WNYP territory to chase this guy south. Sadly shortly after this shot Mathieu Tremblay alerted me to the fact that the BKRR indeed had run, probably meeting PanAm at the interchange early this afternoon. In hindsight although I'm bummed, coming down here was worth it as there is only one stone train left for the year for these guys and probably not much more testing to be done. Long story short it all worked out. Here they are storming up Keating Summit south of Port Allegany, PA with 2 D8 rebuilds leading the pack of MLWs and the 8520, an AC conversion job from CAF that has been painted in a pretty sharp red and grey scheme by NS.
Consolation Prize
So to begin, I've been trying to get out every single Tuesday possible this fall, as I'm taking a semester off to figure out where I want to finish off my Bachelor's Degree and haven't ever really been able to take advantage of a full fall of shooting until this year. Working six days a week I'm usually only able to get trackside on Tuesdays, but this week I took Monday off as well to shoot the CP F units. The rumor was Tuesday would be the day for the BKRR, but nobody knew if it would pan out due to PanAm's sporadic service. Some of you know how many times I've tried to shoot the BKRR in the past two years. It's never worked out. So, after getting my last set in of the F units in Plattsburgh and grabbing dinner in Saratoga I hatched a plan. I knew that there was a good chance of the NS units that CAF is testing showing up on a Driftwood turn. Favoring the BKRR only slightly over this move, I camped out in Eagle Bridge so that if the loads arrived overnight as planned I'd know to stick around. Well, by 0600 nothing was lined through and nothing had arrived so thinking it was a bust I raced down to WNYP territory to chase this guy south. Sadly shortly after this shot Mathieu Tremblay alerted me to the fact that the BKRR indeed had run, probably meeting PanAm at the interchange early this afternoon. In hindsight although I'm bummed, coming down here was worth it as there is only one stone train left for the year for these guys and probably not much more testing to be done. Long story short it all worked out. Here they are storming up Keating Summit south of Port Allegany, PA with 2 D8 rebuilds leading the pack of MLWs and the 8520, an AC conversion job from CAF that has been painted in a pretty sharp red and grey scheme by NS.