Episode IV: A New Hope - a photo on Flickriver

            I've never watched a Star Wars film in its entirety, I'm a poser. I had to google the names of the movies to figure out the caption here. 

One of the more questionable decisions I made back when covid was running strong was only chasing the Bessemer & Lake Erie one single time when they had their IC power. Knowing what I know now, I would have spent more time there instead of shooting locally as it was only a 3 hour drive for me to get anywhere on the northern end of their system. For a solid year or two when I could've gone down, they ran daily with Illinois Central SD70s sporting P5s on ore trains past searchlight signals. Ugh. 

On this day, the conditions couldn't have been worse for chasing black locomotives. A horrifically dreary September day gave way to severe thunderstorms mid chase, and I was still a lazy little boy who relied on auto settings on his camera. So, combine auto settings with a guy still figuring out how to frame photos and you're in 'blind squirrel finding a nut' territory. Eventually, after chasing the train for a few hours following around fellow geeks I didn't really know well just yet, we ended up at a location I was actually familiar with. Kimbles Viaduct is easily seen from I-79 when using the southbound lanes, and I had seen it many a time on family road trips as a kid and had always wanted a photo of it. My opportunity came that day, as I parked on the road below and ran my way up to interstate level for a respectable shot of the ore loads coming south. The rain cleared up and it got bright enough for my camera to not have a seizure trying to get the settings right, and I managed to keep the photo level and framed. Sadly this is one of maybe three photos from that day I would ever bother showing people, but it does it for me. 

I ended up taking a little present home with me that day in the form of an airborne pathogen. I came down with covid a few days later as one of the other guys had it as well without knowing yet.

Was it worth it? Sure.

Taken on: September 7, 2020

Sets appears in: • SD70s • Bessemer & Lake Erie more » • Trestles and Bridges • Pennsylvania Railroadin' « less

Groups appears in: • Railroad Bridges • fallen flags more » • EMD • Great Lake Railroads • Pennsylvania trains • Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad • Trains and Railroads of Pennsylvania • Railfanning Western Pennsylvania • TRAINS IN ALL 50 STATES AND CANADA • Steel Rails of Canada and America « less

Stats: 520 views

go back

close tools panel

Badge creator

Use Flickriver Badge Creator to create a badge linking to your photos, your group or any other Flickriver view.

You can place your badge on your Flickr profile, Blog or Website.

Add to your iGoogle or Netvibes page

Flickriver widget for iGoogle or Netvibes can display almost any Flickriver view - most interesting today, by user, by group, by tag etc. Once added to your personalized homepage, just edit widget settings to select your desired view.

Clickr on one of the buttons below to install:

Embed on your Web site

To embed this view, Copy and Paste the following HTML code:

Black background (preview):

White background (preview):

Firefox and Chrome addons

Adds a 'Flickriver' button to your browser. While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on this button to open the same view on Flickriver.

Install in Firefox
Install in Chrome

Search plugin

Add 'Search on Flickriver' to your browser's search box. Works with Firefox and Internet Explorer. Install search plugin

"View on Flickriver" Greasemonkey script

A Greasemonkey script that adds Flickriver links to various Flickr photo pages - user photos, favorites, pools etc, allowing to quickly open the corresponding Flickriver view.

Also, allows quickly viewing any Flickr photo on black background in large size.

Install "View on Flickriver" script

Bookmarklet

While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on the bookmarklet to open the same view on Flickriver.

To install: drag and drop the following link to your Bookmarks toolbar.
IE users - add the link to your Favorites under the Links folder