The World of Animals (Post 1 / Award 3)
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"Although she asks him not to come to the railway station, she hopes he will ignore her request. [...] As the train begins to leave the station, she is thrilled to see him running down the platform. He tries to hand her a white rose through the window but the train is moving too quickly. The very same thought crosses both their minds as he holds the rose and she waves him goodbye from the window: «What a beautiful summer it was»"
Conrail 6162 and 6211 are just starting to load train UAH-4K on the Koppel Secondary in Koppel, PA on August 24, 1994. We heard this train get authority to operate on the secondary and since I had never caught a train loading here, I had to catch it. I'm glad we did. The crew was super friendly and invited my wife and I into the cab. We stayed long enough to watch them load a few cars, took some pics of us in the engineers seat, then took off to see what else we could catch in the area.
NS D49 crosses the TP&W Diamond at Crandall that is guarded by two Nickel Plate style searchlights. The leader on the train that day was an SD40-2 that is now in a museum and the infamous NS 9-1-1 SD60E. D49 is normally a morning train, but due to a workblock that was going on in 2020, they ran in the late afternoon towards Peoria.