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Walking On Empty: A Face only a Mother Could Love.
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Sunday, May 3, 2015. A Face only a Mother Could Love. I finally got some pictures of Norfolk Southern's Illinois Terminal Heritage engine in Jonesborough! Most Excellent. I'd seen it once before over in Norton Va, and got some nice pics of it sitting the Norton yard, but this is better. It was the cherry-on-top of a great train weekend that saw 4, yes 4, heritage engines come through Jonesborough. Here's the results from the Jonesborough shoot:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Walking On Empty: August 2014
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Saturday, August 16, 2014. My efforts were rewarded with the following two pictures of the NYC leading 16T eastward toward Bristol. I snapped a few pics of the whole consist as it came toward Jonesborough, and imagine my surprise when I saw the lightning stripes of the NYC trailing 5th of 5. I had already lowered my camera so I had to quickly get back on task. I got off six shots, the best three are below. A new heritage engine for me, I'm at 15 of 20. 00 1030 The Forgotten Heritage Engine. Manfrotto 190...
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Walking On Empty: September 2014
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Sunday, September 7, 2014. It's been a really good weekend for catching Norfolk Southern Heritage motors. The third new one for of this weekend was the only one I'd planned on, go figure. The NS1074 Delaware Lackawanna and Western came through earlier in week on 16T so I knew there was a chance it would come back on 15T this weekend . and it did! The resulting picture below serves only to prove that I actually saw the engine. I hope to get another chance real soon so that I can remove this one . It's bee...
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Walking On Empty: March 2015
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Friday, March 20, 2015. Original Norfolk Southern 8114. The 8114 came back through leading 201, it was another after dark opportunity, but at least this time it wasn't raining. It's not much better, but eventually it'll be back during daylight hours and I can get a decent picture, maybe even the return trip on 202! Did I mention that it started to rain too, oh bother. So, there's all 20 Heritage motors. So now it's on to the next challenge of catching them all leading. 13 1065 Savannah and Atlanta. 20 81...
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Walking On Empty: April 2014
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014. Another win for the Interwebs, specifically folk from the Facing Book and HeritageUnits.com. I finally got a chance to catch one of my favorite paint jobs on a Heritage engine: the tuxedo paint scheme on the Savannah and Atlanta. It was leaving Cleveland Va leading on a coal drag bound for Belmont, NC - which would put it through NETN today. The hard part - as it always is - was knowing when it would get close to us. Savannah and Atlanta, Bulls Gap, TN (04/23/14). This is herit...
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Walking On Empty: May 2014
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Sunday, May 18, 2014. Being a railfan in the era of social is pretty darn cool. Keeping track of the movements of the Norfolk Southern Heritage fleet is done quite well through a several pages on the Facing Book. The latest win was the Norfolk and Western 8103. Into Knoxville TN in the late evening of 5/17 and was gassed up and ready to go somewhere. I was hoping that it would be making its move to Roanoke on Sunday morning on 38Q, which usually gets to Jonesborough about 6:30AM. It wasn't until I got in...
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Walking On Empty: November 2014
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Saturday, November 22, 2014. I made my annual pilgrimage to Kermit Va to shoot some pics of the Santa Train. This time though, I had a new weapon at my disposal, my quad copter with on-board GoPro camera . Here's a couple of screen grabs from that same video. The building on the right in the first one is the old sand plant that used to supply sand to the glass making factories in Kingsport. And here are a couple that we took at a crossing just down the road from the stop at Kermit:. View my complete prof...
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Walking On Empty: Original Norfolk Southern 8114
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Friday, March 20, 2015. Original Norfolk Southern 8114. The 8114 came back through leading 201, it was another after dark opportunity, but at least this time it wasn't raining. It's not much better, but eventually it'll be back during daylight hours and I can get a decent picture, maybe even the return trip on 202! Did I mention that it started to rain too, oh bother. So, there's all 20 Heritage motors. So now it's on to the next challenge of catching them all leading. 13 1065 Savannah and Atlanta. 20 81...
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Walking On Empty: June 2014
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Saturday, June 21, 2014. Me and my herd o' womens went to NYC to see some English-ters put on a production of Macbeth and see the stuff that is cool while we were there. I have been in enough big cities in other parts of the country to have some preconceived notions of what to expect. But I was pleasantly surprised, it was a nice place to hang out for several days. Some musings from the trip:. Traveling to the big city by trains is cool. We may have been the only English-speaking tourists there. Go to Ti...
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