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Published: 2005-10-31 16:54:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 357; Favourites: 9; Downloads: 7
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Minerva Scenic has a nice mix of motive power in it's small fleet. Here one of the E-untis waits to take some passangers on a fall excursion while a GP9 (in Penn Central colors!) sits waiting for another assignment. This scene almost looks as if it were on a model railroad. Well that is just my opinion anyway
. Or it could be about 30+ years in the past. With some imagination, that the PC geep waiting for a C&O E-unit with its passanger train in tow to clear the mainline so it can continue switching.
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Good shot. What is making the shadow? Too bad it is there. I do understand that you sometimes have to take what you can get.
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Thanks!
It's a brick building just out of frame. I think if I would have gotten there with the sun at a different angle the shot would have come out better.
But like you said it's one of those take what you can get deals.
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Penn Central, preserved? Odd, but I'm glad to see it. It's just that most railroaders would like to forget PC.
No usual NS DASH 9's or UP SD70Ms, but I don't know... sometimes I feel like photographing museum or tourist pike equipment is like fishing in a barrel. Not that it is not fun, just that is seems to lack the punch of a real train chase. I guess the key is to do like you and pretend you are back in time. (Whitewater Valley RR's Milwaukee Road SD8 makes me think of a lonely Iowa branch line, and their NYC Alco is right at home on former Big 4 tracks.)
The framing here is nice, by the way.
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I couldn't believe it when I saw it. I have seen PC locos before, but never one with the "friendly worm" scheme. I did have a chance to chase the E-unit, but when I caught up with it, my camera batteries were dead.
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Even stranger to see the red-P version. Overall definitely not an era worth celebrating.
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I need to do a little reasearch on this one. I am not sure it was presereved liek that or if a museum repaint one to look like a PC Geep.
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Heckuva shot.
Nice work getting the old-school diesel in there with the newer hi-nose GP.
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Can't beat old scholl diesel power!
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That would be cool if day hit...my modle trains always hit.
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Like out of the Adam's Family.
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I was glad it was such a wonderful fall day. It was just perfect!
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I like these old GP units more than the modern ones. Don't know why....
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They are just classics. Like say the old Charger over the new one.
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