Railroad picture of the day
The 700 works its way up the ramp from Oaks Park to the Spokane St crossing, where it stopped and then pushed the train all the way down to OMSI for the 3pm run of the Holiday Express this afternoon. This was the only weekend that they are going to use the 700 as motive power on the Holiday Express trains (it’s going to be up in Vancouver next weekend for a BN Santa train) so I went out of my way to go by and take pictures every day it was operating.
And today, after taking these pictures, I hopped back on the midlifecrisismobile and raced ahead of the train up to OMSI, where I had to turn around and proceed back into Brooklyn to get ahead of the train for the second railroad picture of the day. A band of clouds had moved in since the first picture, so it had become a darker and colder day while I sat around and waited for the train to return.