When Akron Railroad Club member Bob Farkas cranks up his way back machine he usually has in mind going back to the 1970s or earlier.
When I dive into my version of a way back machine I tend to have a much shorter focus in time.
I recently launched a project of reviewing some my older digital images with an eye toward processing and posting some that got overlooked shortly after they were made.
I decided to start with July, August and September of 2011, a period of time that incorporated the first three months that I started doing digital photography.
I was all over the visit that September of Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 765 when it came to the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad and pulled a series of excursions.
The image above was made on Sept. 17. The 765 was pulling a trip headed for Canton that was billed as a “total track tour.”
I was waiting for it on the Old Station Road bride that is now part of the towpath trail.
What caught my attention about this photograph is the FL9 that is trailing on the train and will bring it back north later today.
The CVSR used that FL9, a former Amtrak and New Haven unit, between 2009 and early 2012.
It was paired with NKP 765 during its September 2011 visit, which would turn out to be the waning days of No. 484’s tenure in the Valley.
No. 484 at the time was owned by F.P. Flynn but has since moved on to working in Canada.
Another notable fact about this train is the presence of two dome cars. The dome with the blue, gold and gray paint was named Emerson at the time and had just been joined by the former Silver Bronco, which was already wearing CVSR colors.
The ex-Silver Bronco assumed the Emerson name for a while before reverting to its original Denver & Rio Grande Western name.
The blue, gold and gray dome in this train is a former Great Northern car than ran on the CVSR between 2009 and 2011.
As I processed this image I also noticed something that had escaped my attention at the time.
Can you find the Akron Railroad Club member in this photo? He is standing next a tripod with a video camera and has a still photo camera around his neck. Look a little to the left of the Buckeye crossbuck at the grade crossing.
It is Paul Wooding who was part of the impromptu photo line.
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June 16, 2018 at 4:04 pm |
The photo line was not impromptu on my part. I deliberately got there early to try and get a line organized that would give everyone a decent angle on the train. I think I pretty much succeeded at that. I don’t believe there were any “daisy pickers” walking into the serious photographer’s shots.
June 17, 2018 at 2:07 pm |
About a week later that was the case of a daisy picker jumping out in front just as the NKP 765 showed up in Brecksville.