Nomad of Mid-America
Philo-sophical
With daylight on a chilly November Sunday drawing to a rapid close, NS 148 puts the hammer down for the slight climb out of Tolono--35 miles east of Decatur on NS's Lafayette District--and puts the small burg of Philo in its sight, choppy, wind-swept exhaust expelled from the lead GE motors wisping across the flat Illinois countryside as the dying golden rays of the orb accentuate the parallel ribbons of steel and the flanks of the mixed cargo on which they carry.
Philo-sophical
With daylight on a chilly November Sunday drawing to a rapid close, NS 148 puts the hammer down for the slight climb out of Tolono--35 miles east of Decatur on NS's Lafayette District--and puts the small burg of Philo in its sight, choppy, wind-swept exhaust expelled from the lead GE motors wisping across the flat Illinois countryside as the dying golden rays of the orb accentuate the parallel ribbons of steel and the flanks of the mixed cargo on which they carry.