The other day, Kris and I intercepted Amtrak’s northward Vermonter, train 54, crossing the former Boston & Maine bridge at Cheapside in Greenfield, Massachusetts. For me the train was the ‘frosting’. The cake is the cool 1920s-era deck truss bridge. I’ve driven by this structure hund...
I’ve allowed the road to occupy the dominant portion of the frame; yet the train remains the subject. At the time, an Amtrak F40PH with Amfleet was just about as ordinary as it got and I wanted to put the train in its environment to make for a more interesting image. Tracking the ...
Every so often Pop would gather my brother Sean and I into the car and head over the Boston & Albany (then Conrail) to wait for Amtrak’sLake Shore Limited.Back then, the train was still running with heritage equipment and typically hauled by fairly tired E8As. If we were really lucky ...
Three Burlington Northern SD70MACs lead coal empties west of Edgemont, South Dakota on May 26, 1995. Three SD70MACs were standard Powder River coal train power. This photo was run large as an opening spread in my bookModern Locomotives: High-Power Diesels, 1966-2000, a title published by...
I used Warren as an example for a similar compositional conversation in Trains Magazine, published about two years ago and featured photo of Amtrak’s westward Lake Shore Limited. Yesterday (December 29, 2017), I arrived in Warren just in time to set up and catch CSX’s late-running Q264...
Thanks to the Reading & Northern and their crews for running an impressive train; thanks to Pat Yough for getting us where we all needed to be to photograph the action; thanks to FujiFilm for producing a great little camera; and thanks to Autumn 2015 for great weather and fine foliage. ...