Railroad picture of the day
The sun had (deceptively; half an hour later it dumped hail and torrential rain for easily 25 minutes, and then a hour and a half later it was warm and sunny again) come out, so I went out for a short 20 mile loop at 11:30, and as I was heading west along Andover Street in Garthwick, I heard a high-pitched locomotive whistle tootling in a fairly urgent manner. It was windy enough so I couldn’t tell exactly where it was coming from, but I thought it might be one of the Portland Traction railcranes doing something with the ex-carbarn siding that’s being extended(?), so I was pleasantly surprised when I rolled around the curve onto the tail end of 13th and saw the working Eng! scampering into view from the west.
Alas, the poor CBC doesn’t deal very well with the whole focus concept when the camera and target are both moving, so it decided instead to focus in on the tree that sat between me and the SW-1. But I’m not terribly choosy, as long as I don’t look too closely at the resulting photo.