Tim Stockwell
"Fails" Road
This one kind of hurts to share. Continuing the story from my last post, I crashed at an old friend from seminary's home in East Rochester the night of Thursday, 9/29 in hopes of shooting the Falls Road the following day. The Falls Road has been on my bucket list for a while, and with the time available, a blue dome forecast, and a free place to stay, it made sense to finally attempt it.
The best intel on these guys is that they run Tuesdays and Fridays. So, it was up at 0500 and on the road by 0530 for the hour-and-a-half drive to Lockport (boy is the Falls Road way out there!). Showing up shortly after 0700, at first I was dismayed to see that there was no crew around. That quickly changed, however, and soon the crew had RS-32 #2035 fired up and switching the yard. Though the engine was long-hood forward, the light was perfect and I fired away. The loud "bark" of the 2035 as it switched was very memorable, too.
After several moves, the engine disappeared from sight. I drove around to the other end of the yard and was a bit nervous when I saw that it had made it back into the engine house. The sinking feeling continued when I could see and hear the crew tie the hand brakes on the engine. Maybe 10 minutes later, the engine house door was shut. Another pair of photographers there decided to drive over to the engine house to inquire what was up (something I've given up since my experience on the NYOG), and they came back and informed me that CSX hadn't dropped and therefore they wouldn't be running today.
To say it was a long drive retracing my steps back to Rochester would be an understatement. But, once again, the Finger Lakes Railway would provide...
"Fails" Road
This one kind of hurts to share. Continuing the story from my last post, I crashed at an old friend from seminary's home in East Rochester the night of Thursday, 9/29 in hopes of shooting the Falls Road the following day. The Falls Road has been on my bucket list for a while, and with the time available, a blue dome forecast, and a free place to stay, it made sense to finally attempt it.
The best intel on these guys is that they run Tuesdays and Fridays. So, it was up at 0500 and on the road by 0530 for the hour-and-a-half drive to Lockport (boy is the Falls Road way out there!). Showing up shortly after 0700, at first I was dismayed to see that there was no crew around. That quickly changed, however, and soon the crew had RS-32 #2035 fired up and switching the yard. Though the engine was long-hood forward, the light was perfect and I fired away. The loud "bark" of the 2035 as it switched was very memorable, too.
After several moves, the engine disappeared from sight. I drove around to the other end of the yard and was a bit nervous when I saw that it had made it back into the engine house. The sinking feeling continued when I could see and hear the crew tie the hand brakes on the engine. Maybe 10 minutes later, the engine house door was shut. Another pair of photographers there decided to drive over to the engine house to inquire what was up (something I've given up since my experience on the NYOG), and they came back and informed me that CSX hadn't dropped and therefore they wouldn't be running today.
To say it was a long drive retracing my steps back to Rochester would be an understatement. But, once again, the Finger Lakes Railway would provide...