Sunday, September 27, 2015

Chasing Trains

Had a blast chasing trains today - specifically, Nickel Plate Locomotive 765, which has been operating on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad tracks for the last couple of weeks, and will be back next weekend, October 3 and 4.

765 is an impressive steam engine: big, inky black, billowing smoke, and thundering down the tracks. It's whistle is pretty distinctive, too, quite different from the diesel engines used by CVSR.

Here is 765 at Brecksville Station. It's being pulled back to Fitzwater Yard by a diesel on the other end of the train. If you look closely, you can see the plume is flowing forward over the front of the train.


Kind of like the look of this old locomotive in black. That's the Rt. 82 bridges in the background, the one some knuckle headed neanderthals wanted to blow up.


One of the CVSR diesels, pulling the regularly scheduled scenic train. It headed south while 765 was at Fitzwater.


765, headed back south. I was standing about 15 feet from the tracks, and the whistle is deafening! The plume's flowing the right way now.


Same shot, color. The old-time sepia works better, I think.



Mid-afternoon, 765 made another run, this time south of Boston Station.  I caught it at the Furnace Run Bridge across from Bolanz Road.


For more details about 765, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_Plate_765. The CVSR website has details about and tickets for the runs next week: http://www.cvsr.com/steam-in-the-valley. If you're a photographer, check out Duane Stephen Loya's 765 page at http://www.zensphotography.com/SteamintheValleySteamDays.pdf.

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