Chiaroscuro

And other musings on Cangiante, Sfumato, and Unione

Just Like New

 But these two SD75Ms were actually built over 20 years ago.  They both looked so good when they passed that I was sure they were fresh new engines.  It’s amazing what an overhaul and fresh paint will do.  I wonder if the cab received the same treatment?  Unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to ask.

I also saw this cute little thing.  I’m not sure how I would feel riding along in this little house.  Probably better there than out in the cold or rain.  Maybe a lesson to be learned, in our disposable age…. refurbishing can look and act just as good as new.   Although there is nothing like a shiny new camera.

I was very lucky today to see two meets, where two trains in opposite directions cross paths.  However, I needed to be on the other side of the tracks to take full photo advantage, maybe next time.

In desperate need of a bath!

 

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Rob Wehmeier

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I stand still or move slowly, feeling things like the impulse of shapes, the direction of lines, the quality of surfaces. I frame with my eye (sometimes with my hands) as the ground glass would frame. Nothing that one could reasonably call thinking is taking place at this stage. The condition is total absorption; the decision (a picture!) is spontaneous. – Aaron Siskind, 1955

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