You know what they say, sometimes you get the bear, sometimes it gets you...anyway.
After sleeping late and missing the usual morning parade, I decided it was to pretty to just sit around the house on my only day off for Two weeks, so I ventured forth into the sunshine for a few trains. The CNO&TP was DEAD..I sat out at North Wye for almost Two hours and all I saw was a 230 coming directly out of the sun, and a 287 limping around with a dead engine. I popped 287 off the Buster Pike Bridge (like I really need more shots from there) and then headed back towards the house, getting a 23G and 111 in the process. Worst part, not a single EMD to be seen...should have just stayed in the bed..
287 starts around the Wye after having air troubles up near Brown.
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Eastbound 111 at Vanarsdale, getting ready to head in at Talamge to meet 284
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Following right behind the 23G was train 111, running on 23G's bad blocks. I went for a new angle here at my favorite place after a litlte tree trimming.
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Nice shots, Mr. Bell!!! ;)
Do you think the trees will survive and try to bloom again this year? I have a feeling we will be seeing alot of brown instead of green this year. :-\
~Mike
Mike:
I'm seeing a few bouncing back from the freeze already. This was one of those "once every seven years" type of freezes.
Emmett:
Look at it this way, at least 287 was the better of the three. ;)
I don know if many of these trees will have leaves this year or not. The sudden freeze we had wont kill off the tree's themselves, but the early budding was a bad thing. Almost everything except the evergreens and such have no foliage at all right now, and most show no signs of bouncing back...only time will tell.