Thursday Proto Photo, Sep 25/25

[Lenny53]

Pointe Claire, QC autumn 2004
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[Ed Kapuscinski]

This week I don't like that it's Thursday. We're spending the week at the beach and this is a reminder that we're one day closer to our drive home.

That said... on our drive down here something happened that I simply cannot believe. We were driving down the Caratoke Highway on the way to the Outer Banks. The original Norfolk Southern parallels us for a bit, and every year that we've been coming down here I've always thought it'd be cool to see something moving on it. I never thought I would though. But this year we were doing the drive on a Monday.

I glanced over and saw some hoppers. Then I said to Terri, "Are those moving??". They were. And we would be crossing the tracks in about half a mile. Whoa.

I gave up proper lighting so we wouldn't be stuck waiting for the train (who knows how long that'd take and we had an appointment with a hot tub), but this turned out pretty cool.

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[davefoxx]

That said... on our drive down here something happened that I simply cannot believe. We were driving down the Caratoke Highway on the way to the Outer Banks. The original Norfolk Southern parallels us for a bit, and every year that we've been coming down here I've always thought it'd be cool to see something moving on it. I never thought I would though. But this year we were doing the drive on a Monday.

You lucky son of a bitch.  I’ve traveled that stretch of road since 1979- back when the Southern Ry. owned the rail line and the highway was a two-lane winding road- and have never seen a train there.

DFF

[mu26aeh]

[packers#1]

The local shortline had a pretty small workload today apparently, they made it all the way back down to Fitesa before running out of hours and parking the train for the overnight crew to bring back to Laurens. They had a grand total of 5 or 6 plastic pellet hoppers left as well.

[samusi01]

Unlike the rest of you, I shan't share a train picture: even the tracks are long gone. A pin-connected Pegram deck truss, formerly UP branch line that's been the subject of a rails-to-trails program.

[sundowner]

The Port Everglades switch jobs

FEC 443, the second to last build GP40-2 pushing the ethanol cars out of the tank farm  and then pulling them into the port yard and at the same time on the second port lead another older rebuild GP-40 pushing the southbound into the port yard.