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Railroad picture of the day

A northbound Coast Starlight at Milwaukie Marketplace

When I was riding out to the store this afternoon I reached the railroad crossing at Harrison Street (in Milwaukie) just before the northbound Coast Starlight did. Fortunately there’s a nice long tangent running SE through Milwaukie, so I could see the headlight at enough of a distance so I could pull across the road to a good viewing position, get the camera out, and get it fired up and ready to go before the lead Twinkie popped out from behind a conveniently placed (for photography) tree.