Birthday Surpise
With the extra time the Covid pandemic has afforded me (thanks to just about everything being shut down), I have embarked on a long-delayed mission of organizing and cataloging all my images from 2017 and earlier. I began in 2014, the year I bought my first actually-new camera. This is also the year that I fell behind in keeping up with my photos.
In early 2014, I started a new job. As I became more familiar with it, my job responsibilities increased, and as a result, my hours. Even before Thanksgiving, I was already cranking out the overtime. So when my birthday rolled around, I wanted, and desperately needed, a day off. If memory serves, I took the day before my birthday off work to enjoy a 3-day weekend and get out and really shoot for the first time in nearly a month. So, I headed to Rochelle, home of the famous Railroad Park, aka the "Petting Zoo."
After getting a few trains, I was taken by surprise when Chicago & Northwestern 8646, one of the famed "CNW Twins," came poking around the diamond on the front of a stack train. (CNW 8646 and sister 8701, were the very last unpatched & unpainted CNW units left of the UP Roster.) I decided then that I would chase them east and try to get them as often as I could.
Birthday Surpise
With the extra time the Covid pandemic has afforded me (thanks to just about everything being shut down), I have embarked on a long-delayed mission of organizing and cataloging all my images from 2017 and earlier. I began in 2014, the year I bought my first actually-new camera. This is also the year that I fell behind in keeping up with my photos.
In early 2014, I started a new job. As I became more familiar with it, my job responsibilities increased, and as a result, my hours. Even before Thanksgiving, I was already cranking out the overtime. So when my birthday rolled around, I wanted, and desperately needed, a day off. If memory serves, I took the day before my birthday off work to enjoy a 3-day weekend and get out and really shoot for the first time in nearly a month. So, I headed to Rochelle, home of the famous Railroad Park, aka the "Petting Zoo."
After getting a few trains, I was taken by surprise when Chicago & Northwestern 8646, one of the famed "CNW Twins," came poking around the diamond on the front of a stack train. (CNW 8646 and sister 8701, were the very last unpatched & unpainted CNW units left of the UP Roster.) I decided then that I would chase them east and try to get them as often as I could.