Late last month I was chasing an excursion train on the former Detroit, Toledo & Ironton from Springfield to Lima, Ohio.
The passenger train had a stop signal at Quincy, where the former DT&I, now the Indiana & Ohio, crosses the CSX Indianapolis Line, former a New York Central route.
CSX had two trains to run. The first was the Q348, which is one of those monsters of the precision scheduled railroading era that had a cut of double-stacked containers, a cut of auto racks and a string of manifest freight.
It would cross over at Quincy to get out of the way of the Q008, which is still an intermodal-only operation and a priority train.
I had to make a decision as to where to photograph the Q348. I could walk a short distance and frame it passing a tree with good fall foliage or I could catch it passing the grain elevator.
“Well,” I said to myself, “what would Marty Surdyk do?”
Marty is known for his affection for grain elevators and you can easily see above how I answered by that question to myself.
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