The Chessie Safety Express, with C&O 614, ran from Silver Spring, Maryland to Philadelphia and return on September 20, 1981. Anticipating an unchaseable train with a long layover in Philadelphia, a friend and I shot the steam excursion outside of Baltimore (why didn’t we go to Perryville?) and spent the day railfanning the Baltimore area. Returning home to Pennsylvania in the evening, we stopped at Aiken, Maryland, where we found an eastbound B&O TOFC train with a single GP40 for power. The engineer agreed to cooperate with us for a nocturnal image, and verified that the 614 was only a few minutes away. After taking the photo, we watched the magic of a 4-8-4 with a heavy train making track speed in the darkness.
A continuously growing album of photos that IMHO reveal the awesome and seldom-seen beauty of the railroad world from the dimming of day to dawn's early light! From dusk to dawn, trains roll on! (I'm still finding gems of sunset-to-sunrise surprises!)
Not
just heritage schemes, not just commemorative schemes - this album is devoted to some of the world's most interesting paint schemes, past or present.
