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(erielack) RE: EL August calender photo



  Compare this image with this months photo!
   
  http://www.railfan.net/railpix/submit/rondukarm/p.cgi?Erie_2915_Susquehanna_Erie_Ltd_WB_1942.jpg
   
  
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:55:46 -0400
From: "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" 

Subject: (erielack) EL August calendar photo

Time to turn the calendar again...

This month's image shows a westbound freight (TC-1, possibly?) drifting into Susquehanna, PA behind an A-B-A set of F-units. A lot of today's photographers would be whining about the "cloudy day" and "non-photogenic location," but I'll have none of that here! There is tons of neat stuff to see in this photo...

* The classic Erie water tower in the background, rusty and weather-worn, a fitting representative of the rapidly-declining Delaware Division.
* The MOW-series 40' boxcar next to the freight house at right
* The piece of "stick rail" lying alongside the main - more repairs to decrepit track?
* The dirty, oily, wavy-rail siding at the right, with a weed-covered freight house track. I call that "character!"
* The thick haze of a mid-summer's day (something we're experiencing here in the Northeast BIG-TIME today!)
* The obvious grade in the distance, climbing up to Gulf Summit
* Switchstands with lanterns!
* A trio of F-units! Need I say more??? :)

- - Paul


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