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Re: (erielack) Time to turn the calendar...

For such an overcast day, the orange on the reefer seems awfully bright too. 
I guess a break in the clouds is a possibility though.

Todd K. Stearns


- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_alcatel-lucent.com>
To: "EL Mail List" <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 3:16 PM
Subject: (erielack) Time to turn the calendar...


> Sorry I'm tardy on this, with the "Great Nor'easter" we had last week,
> our house has been without power for three days, and the weekend was
> spent removing all the limbs that fell in the backyard (ugh!)
>
> The November photo in the 2008 EL calendar features a pair of relatively
> clean E8s under a murky sky pulling the final westbound The Phoebe Snow
> into Binghamton in October of 1966. The color on lead ex-DL&W E8 816
> seems a bit "punched up" in terms of saturated color, makes me wonder if
> a little Photoshopping was done here?
>
> Regardless of the grubby weather, there are a couple of bright spots in
> the photo: The PFE reefer in the distance coupled up to a grubby DL&W
> boxcar in the former Erie yard, underneath a gantry crane; a nice
> variety of passenger equipment in the train; and the relatively clean
> yard in the foreground (save for a nicely manicured patch of grass! :)
> A shame we can't see what local power is sitting at the Erie enginehouse
> that's nicely blocked by the train consist, but most likely it's an EMD
> switcher, a usual denizen of Binghamton.
>
> The grubby weather does really fit the mood of the final run, however.
>
> - Paul


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