May 15th 2009
A heavy storm came though Carothers about an hour before the fog started to roll in off of the Potomac River. I remember how quiet the night was, I could hear the approaching freight train for 30 mins before it came around the distant curve. As the west bound neared the headlights illuminated the foggy night, glistened off of the code line and left the CPL as a backlit silhouette.
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!)
For the train and storm chaser. Trains with thunderstorms, dark clouds, rain, lightning, hurricanes - tropical storms, funnel clouds, storm light, rainbows, and snow storms.
Photos showing the railroad pole lines. The pole line used four basic electrical circuits - telegraph, telephone, signaling, and power. Modern technologies of fiber optics, microwave, radio, satellite, and computers have been replacing the pole lines.
