Big Mistake

I often took my camera to work, but sometimes I got lazy. It was a big mistake leaving it home on this trip on November 3rd 2022 because I had to settle for a cellphone picture of my M409-02 posed on the Powell's Creek trestle on a beautiful fall morning. I was sort-of able to redeem myself with a similar shot 2 years later when my southbound Auto Train went into emergency at this same location, but during the summer (and with a real camera)

 

Anyways, I broke out the trip notes for this one.

 

M409-02, on duty @ 0100 in Philly with conductor Tommy McFail. 5316 + 388 & 538 as our DPU on the rear of 68 cars (a baby 409 for sure).

 

We left RG tower in Philly at 0126 (whew!)

 

We stopped at;

Dump Rd (0357-0440)

Bayview (0456-0520)

Slater's Ln (0710--0715)

Franconia (0743-0810)

Powell's Creek (0846-0851)

Doswell (1026-1048)

Lakeside (1121-1122)

GN (1127-1133)

 

And we tied the train down at the south end of old two main at Acca yard at 1145. 11 hours to go 253 miles with no pick ups or set outs and a 60mph train. We made more stops than an Amtrak train.

 

Oh well. Take your camera to work.

Done