Railroading is about interruptions. Not just having a trip full of green signals being interrupted by a 3 hour wait for an opposing train, or a hot box detector tagging the next to last axle, but interruptions to life. It means leaving a cart full of groceries in the isle because the call came. It means having Christmas morning postponed until you get back home because there was freight to move. In this case, it means dinner will have to sit on the floorboard until the next move is completed. Even for a staged photo event, Engineer Bob Saxtan got about 2 bites of supper in before the call came over the radio to relocate the 611 to the next location on the museum grounds during the night photo shoot at Spencer on May 1, 2021. To the staff and volunteers, many who are or were professional railroaders who are no strangers to how interruptions are just a fact of life on the railroad, worked long days and late nights to prepare for and carry out this event. A big hats off to all of those who came early in the morning, stayed well into the night, and rolled with the interruptions to their plans(and to a full night’s sleep!) to ensure all of the challenges that occurred were overcome to realize a great experience for so many.
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!)
