Scarlet & Grey at Strench Beach
To the trains! The reason for the season is the patched pair pleasin' on Friday the 13th! I spent 11 hours pounding ground on the Cal Northern, gave Strench a call leaving Woodland and he had the eye on the patched pair returning west on the Mococco from Pittsburg with a late LRJ46. Kimmie Kim had caught the Friday edition of the YOZ85 Crockett Rocket off the Ozol extraboard and they were busy building their train with a set of armour yellow power. It was looking pretty bleak to get the rarest pair of locomotives in California out on the Rocket today.
46 Job got to Ozol with 10 minutes to work AND THE 85 JOB TOOK THEIR POWER! A beautiful day in the east bay (with a significant amount of sky junk near the horizon) and the Cotton Belt pair with the proper leader was coming out well before sunset.
So there's this shot at Rodeo. I had never seen it before I saw Davis Strench's shot of a leaser/yellow set switching here on this 85 job. So as far as I'm concerned he owns it and this is Strench Beach. After shots at Crockett and Selby,Davis, his father Bibb who's in town, Pete, Erie and I hiked in from the road and around the shit (waste treatment plant) keeping an eye to the ground trying to avoid hypodermic needles to line up our low light angles. Just out of view to the right the beach is overtaken with tents and garbage of California's ever-present beachfront homeless population.
The crew made a couple of moves up to the beach, the sun fell below the murk and we went and had a fancy-ass dinner that Bibb wouldn't let us pay for. And Kim, she was tied up before 10pm. A good time was had by all.
Scarlet & Grey at Strench Beach
To the trains! The reason for the season is the patched pair pleasin' on Friday the 13th! I spent 11 hours pounding ground on the Cal Northern, gave Strench a call leaving Woodland and he had the eye on the patched pair returning west on the Mococco from Pittsburg with a late LRJ46. Kimmie Kim had caught the Friday edition of the YOZ85 Crockett Rocket off the Ozol extraboard and they were busy building their train with a set of armour yellow power. It was looking pretty bleak to get the rarest pair of locomotives in California out on the Rocket today.
46 Job got to Ozol with 10 minutes to work AND THE 85 JOB TOOK THEIR POWER! A beautiful day in the east bay (with a significant amount of sky junk near the horizon) and the Cotton Belt pair with the proper leader was coming out well before sunset.
So there's this shot at Rodeo. I had never seen it before I saw Davis Strench's shot of a leaser/yellow set switching here on this 85 job. So as far as I'm concerned he owns it and this is Strench Beach. After shots at Crockett and Selby,Davis, his father Bibb who's in town, Pete, Erie and I hiked in from the road and around the shit (waste treatment plant) keeping an eye to the ground trying to avoid hypodermic needles to line up our low light angles. Just out of view to the right the beach is overtaken with tents and garbage of California's ever-present beachfront homeless population.
The crew made a couple of moves up to the beach, the sun fell below the murk and we went and had a fancy-ass dinner that Bibb wouldn't let us pay for. And Kim, she was tied up before 10pm. A good time was had by all.